Biography
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Amanda Heng Liang Ngim

SG

Contemporary artist, curator and speaker

Editions

Successful People in Singapore (2nd Edition)

2023 February

Successful People in Singapore (1st Edition)

2022 February

E - EDUCATION

1988 - Diploma in printmaking, Lasalle College of the Arts; 1990 - Research on Women’s Liberation Movement and Feminist Art, Central St Martins College of Arts and Design, UK; 1993 - Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

WACW - WRITINGS AND CREATIVE WORKS

Women And Their Arts 1991; Staged S/He 1994; Cleveland Performance Art Festival USA 1997; 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 1997; Women About Women 1998; 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia 1999; Staged Let’s Walk, street performance 1999; Werkleitz Biennale in Germany 2000; 7th Havana Biennial 2000; 1st Women’s Performance Art Festival, Osaka, Japan 2001; Performance Art Festival in Spain 2001; Channel N at Kyoto Art Center 2001; Co-directed theatre production, Bernard’s Story, written by Dana Lam 2001; Performed in theatre production, A Woman On the Tree in the Hill, directed by Ivan Heng 2001; Exchange 05 2005; 1st Singapore Biennale 2006; Staged Our Lives in Our Hands, about the plight of foreign labourers in Singapore 2007

AW - AWARDS

Recipient, Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts 2001

ACH - ACHIEVEMENTS

One of the founding members of The Artists Village 1988; Participant, 3rd Artists Regional Exchange (3rd ARX), Perth, Australia 1992; Organised and collaborated on Artists Project, Raw Theatre, The Substation, Singapore 1994; Participant, Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Nagano, Japan 1996; Participant, Rapport, Singapore International Art Festival, travelling exchange exhibition, Singapore, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane 1996; Exhibited in Womanifesto and spoke at its Women & Art forum, Bangkok, Thailand 1997; Participant, Cleveland International Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, USA 1997; Curated, organised and participated in Women About Women, a multi-media collaborative event with Singapore International Film Festival and Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore 1998; Artist-in-Residence at Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld, Germany 1997; Formed the Women in the Arts (WITA) collective 1999; Workshop and panel speaker, Fukuoka, Japan 1999; Participant in Rand Festival, Austria 1999; Panel speaker, Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney, Australia 1999; Participant, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2000

B - BORN

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