Jacquelyn Soo (b. 1981) is a Degree (Hons) Fine Art graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore where she received a bursary award and a travel grant to Hong Kong in 2006.
Soo’s practice range from conceptual art,installation art forms to performance media. Soo has presented drawings, photos, installation and performance art works inSoutheast Asia, America and Europe through exhibitions and artist in residency programmes: Youth-to-Youth exchange program in Luang Prabang, Laos; Jatiwangi Artist-in-Residence Programme, Bandung, Indonesia; Open Roads InternationalPerformance Art Festival - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Performance in Frames,Bangkok; WEYA World Event Young Artists 2012 Cultural Olympiad Event,Nottingham, UK; Performance Art in Odd Places Festival in New York City, USA;STOFFestival, Stockholm, Sweden; Nafas Residensi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; The Artists Village Singapore: Pulau Ubin Residency Programme and recently with Arteles Creative Centre in Finland.
Soo represented Singapore for the 1st Jakarta Triennale in November 2013 at Nasional Gallerie, Jakarta. Soo is also the founder of Singapore Contemporary Young Artists (Society) to promote the works of emerging young artists in Singapore.
Soo’s practice range from conceptual art,installation art forms to performance media. Soo has presented drawings, photos, installation and performance art works inSoutheast Asia, America and Europe through exhibitions and artist in residency programmes: Youth-to-Youth exchange program in Luang Prabang, Laos; Jatiwangi Artist-in-Residence Programme, Bandung, Indonesia; Open Roads InternationalPerformance Art Festival - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Performance in Frames,Bangkok; WEYA World Event Young Artists 2012 Cultural Olympiad Event,Nottingham, UK; Performance Art in Odd Places Festival in New York City, USA;STOFFestival, Stockholm, Sweden; Nafas Residensi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; The Artists Village Singapore: Pulau Ubin Residency Programme and recently with Arteles Creative Centre in Finland.
Soo represented Singapore for the 1st Jakarta Triennale in November 2013 at Nasional Gallerie, Jakarta. Soo is also the founder of Singapore Contemporary Young Artists (Society) to promote the works of emerging young artists in Singapore.
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Artist Statement
I think about ‘blindness’ in my work.
‘Blindness’ could mean someone who does not acknowledge or give regard to the presence of visual information, the importance of knowledge, diversity in race, religion, sexuality, cultures and in the functions of a society.
My question is how have our visual eye aid us to see the world, how has our education informed us about choices, how media and social information shape us in our thinking, beliefs and understanding of the world? In what ways can it, has it and could it blind or handicap us?
I experiment in all sorts of medium in order to find the right fit: Performance art, sculpture, drawings, photography, installation and sometimes multi-media art. Common themes about blindness in my work are transformation, body, space, movement, memory, history, identity, gender &the function of society.
I think about ‘blindness’ in my work.
‘Blindness’ could mean someone who does not acknowledge or give regard to the presence of visual information, the importance of knowledge, diversity in race, religion, sexuality, cultures and in the functions of a society.
My question is how have our visual eye aid us to see the world, how has our education informed us about choices, how media and social information shape us in our thinking, beliefs and understanding of the world? In what ways can it, has it and could it blind or handicap us?
I experiment in all sorts of medium in order to find the right fit: Performance art, sculpture, drawings, photography, installation and sometimes multi-media art. Common themes about blindness in my work are transformation, body, space, movement, memory, history, identity, gender &the function of society.
Education Qualification
1998 – 2001 Diploma in Fine Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
2005 – 2006 Degree (Hons) in Fine Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Scholarships and Grants
2005 - 2006 LASALLE-SIA Scholarship for Degree (Hons) Programme
2006 Travel Grant to Hong Kong, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Residencies / Invitation
1998 – 2001 Diploma in Fine Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
2005 – 2006 Degree (Hons) in Fine Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Scholarships and Grants
2005 - 2006 LASALLE-SIA Scholarship for Degree (Hons) Programme
2006 Travel Grant to Hong Kong, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Residencies / Invitation
2014 Arteles Creative Residency, Finland
2013 SEA + Triennale, Jakarta Indonesia.
Pulau Ubin Residency, Singapore.
NAFAS Residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2012 Invited participant to Nottingham, UK for World EventYoung Artists WEYA 2012 Cultural Olympiad Event.
2010 Indonesia, Bandung - Jatiwangi Artist-in-Residence Programme.
2005 Youth-to-Youth exchange programme in Luang Prabang, Laos, Participant/Volunteer for Sound Sculpture Workshop withchildren at Laos, Luang Prabang, Children’s Cultural Centre, organised byTheatreWorks (Singapore) and Collaborators as part of the Continuum AsiaProject, Singapore International Foundation and LASALLE-SIA Music Department.
Artist Talks
2014 ‘Code in the Micro’ – Artist Talk at Independent Archive Resource Centre.
SUM > Parts‘When Artists Meet the Public’ Artist & Collaborator Talk, The Substation Gallery, Singapore.
2013 Independent Archive Resource Centre (IARC), Artist Talk, Singapore.
NAFAS ResidencyProgramme, Artist Talk at I.AM Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2010 Performance Art Talk & Workshop, RepublicPolytechnic.
Artists Talk programme at NANYANG ACADEMY OF FINE ART.
2009 Artists Talk programme at Republic Polytechnic.
2006 Rojak 05 – Presenter for artwork ‘Where will you sleep tonight?’.
Art Exhibitions /Performances (2010 – 2015)
2015 ‘Cabinet Stories’, Installation Art for The Mill xWeJungle: Destruction & Rebirth Exhibition at Jalan Kilang, Singapore. (Jan2015)
2014 Bank Art Fair – Art exhibition at Pan Pacific Hotel.
ProjectXpired: ‘City & Food’ – Exhibition at City Square Mall, Singapore for Edible Art Movement x FoodbankSingapore. ‘
Rice Stories’, Interactive Art forEdible Art Movement Rice Project at National Library Singapore.
SUM> Parts ‘When Artists Meet the Public’ Exhibition, The Substation Gallery,Singapore. Exhibited Installation.
2013 SEA + Triennale, JakartaIndonesia. Exhibition of Pulau Ubin’s Secrets ‘Plant a Nation’ Video andPhotography work. Pulau Ubin Secrets, exhibition from the Pulau Ubin Residency Programme at Your MotherGallery, Singapore.
Some Nights Need no Introduction, Via Via Café, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
RecallingUniverse – ‘Manuggaling Kulwo Gusti’, NAFAS Residency Exhibition Cycle One, I.AM Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Tongue-Tied (Connected:Contacted Exhibition & Performance) @ Reading Room.
Conversations(Kampong Goodman Exhibition) @ Goodman Art Centre.
2012 Gone Camping (an interactivetheatre performance) @ The Substation for MiniMart V3.0.LineUp Soldiers! @ Stockholm Fringe Festival.
Some Nights Need No Introduction @ SCYA Gallery Goodman Art Centre.
SultWalk Exhibition & Performance @ Your Mother Gallery.
Performance in Frames: Video Mobile @ The Substation.FamilyPictures @ SCYA Studio.
2011 SCYA ‘Rubbish is P(art) of Us’ – A Green Art Project Exhibition in collaboration with residents of Mountbatten Constituency.
Art in Odd Places Performance Art Festival in New York City, USA.NOW!
Performance Art @National Technological University.
Buka Jalan International Performance Art Festival, KualaLumpur, Malaysia.
Gnothi Seauson' – Know Thyself:Group show.
2010 Low Lives – Live Internet Performance Art Festival from Boston to New York, America. Performance in Frames, Bangkok.
R.I.T.E.S Performance Event – LASALLE College of theArts, ICA Gallery.
Museum Night Festival, Roving Artists Programme, TheSubstation Gallery.
LowLives (Live Internet Performance from New York to Boston, USA.
International Women's Festival at Post-Museum.
Singapore Art Museum Open House, Performance Act.
Kritical Katholic: Performance event in Philippines atAsian Institute for Liturgy and Music.
2013 SEA + Triennale, Jakarta Indonesia.
Pulau Ubin Residency, Singapore.
NAFAS Residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2012 Invited participant to Nottingham, UK for World EventYoung Artists WEYA 2012 Cultural Olympiad Event.
2010 Indonesia, Bandung - Jatiwangi Artist-in-Residence Programme.
2005 Youth-to-Youth exchange programme in Luang Prabang, Laos, Participant/Volunteer for Sound Sculpture Workshop withchildren at Laos, Luang Prabang, Children’s Cultural Centre, organised byTheatreWorks (Singapore) and Collaborators as part of the Continuum AsiaProject, Singapore International Foundation and LASALLE-SIA Music Department.
Artist Talks
2014 ‘Code in the Micro’ – Artist Talk at Independent Archive Resource Centre.
SUM > Parts‘When Artists Meet the Public’ Artist & Collaborator Talk, The Substation Gallery, Singapore.
2013 Independent Archive Resource Centre (IARC), Artist Talk, Singapore.
NAFAS ResidencyProgramme, Artist Talk at I.AM Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2010 Performance Art Talk & Workshop, RepublicPolytechnic.
Artists Talk programme at NANYANG ACADEMY OF FINE ART.
2009 Artists Talk programme at Republic Polytechnic.
2006 Rojak 05 – Presenter for artwork ‘Where will you sleep tonight?’.
Art Exhibitions /Performances (2010 – 2015)
2015 ‘Cabinet Stories’, Installation Art for The Mill xWeJungle: Destruction & Rebirth Exhibition at Jalan Kilang, Singapore. (Jan2015)
2014 Bank Art Fair – Art exhibition at Pan Pacific Hotel.
ProjectXpired: ‘City & Food’ – Exhibition at City Square Mall, Singapore for Edible Art Movement x FoodbankSingapore. ‘
Rice Stories’, Interactive Art forEdible Art Movement Rice Project at National Library Singapore.
SUM> Parts ‘When Artists Meet the Public’ Exhibition, The Substation Gallery,Singapore. Exhibited Installation.
2013 SEA + Triennale, JakartaIndonesia. Exhibition of Pulau Ubin’s Secrets ‘Plant a Nation’ Video andPhotography work. Pulau Ubin Secrets, exhibition from the Pulau Ubin Residency Programme at Your MotherGallery, Singapore.
Some Nights Need no Introduction, Via Via Café, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
RecallingUniverse – ‘Manuggaling Kulwo Gusti’, NAFAS Residency Exhibition Cycle One, I.AM Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Tongue-Tied (Connected:Contacted Exhibition & Performance) @ Reading Room.
Conversations(Kampong Goodman Exhibition) @ Goodman Art Centre.
2012 Gone Camping (an interactivetheatre performance) @ The Substation for MiniMart V3.0.LineUp Soldiers! @ Stockholm Fringe Festival.
Some Nights Need No Introduction @ SCYA Gallery Goodman Art Centre.
SultWalk Exhibition & Performance @ Your Mother Gallery.
Performance in Frames: Video Mobile @ The Substation.FamilyPictures @ SCYA Studio.
2011 SCYA ‘Rubbish is P(art) of Us’ – A Green Art Project Exhibition in collaboration with residents of Mountbatten Constituency.
Art in Odd Places Performance Art Festival in New York City, USA.NOW!
Performance Art @National Technological University.
Buka Jalan International Performance Art Festival, KualaLumpur, Malaysia.
Gnothi Seauson' – Know Thyself:Group show.
2010 Low Lives – Live Internet Performance Art Festival from Boston to New York, America. Performance in Frames, Bangkok.
R.I.T.E.S Performance Event – LASALLE College of theArts, ICA Gallery.
Museum Night Festival, Roving Artists Programme, TheSubstation Gallery.
LowLives (Live Internet Performance from New York to Boston, USA.
International Women's Festival at Post-Museum.
Singapore Art Museum Open House, Performance Act.
Kritical Katholic: Performance event in Philippines atAsian Institute for Liturgy and Music.