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Biography
Hong Sek Chern is the Head of Programme of the Diploma in Fine Art in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) Singapore. She holds a Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore and a Masters of Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was the recipient of the National Arts Council Young Artist Award Visual Arts 2000, the prestigious President’s Young Talent Award 2001 and has won numberous top prizes and notable mentions in regional art competitions including the Philip Morris Asean Arts Awards and the UOB Painting of the Year. In 2002, she was Singapore’s representative in the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, held in Brazil. She has been painting interior and exterior spaces of local architecture using Chinese Ink for nine years. In July 2007, she won the 26th UOB Painting Of The Year (POY) Competition. Using traditional Chinese painting media, her painting Aspects Of The City II was singled out from among over 1,100 entries submitted by about 800 participants for the prestigious POY Award. Hong Sek Chern is sensitive to painterly surfaces and affected by the world around her, and hopes that what she creates allows her to think about the world, its people and herself. At the same time, she hopes to share the beautiful surfaces she creates so that others can ponder and reflect.
Selected Exhibitions
2002
Sao Paolo Biennial, a Group Exhibition, Parque Ibirapuera Biennial Exhibition Hall, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2001
9th International Drawing and Print Exhibit, a Group Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, China
2000
Modern Monuments, a Solo Exhibition, Telok Kurau Studios Gallery, Singapore
15th Asian International Arts Exhibition, a Group Exhibition, Tainan Country Cultural Affairs Bureau, China
Different Eye Different View, a Group Exhibition, Artfolio Gallery, Singapore
1999
Hexagon - Drawing Exhibition, a Group Exhibition, Telok Kurau Studios Gallery, Singapore
ASEAN Art Awards 99, a Group Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
NAFA’s Lecturers’ Show, a Group Exhibition, NAFA Art Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore
| Awards | |
| 2007 |
Painting of the Year, United Oveseas Bank (UOB) group, Singapore |
| 2000 |
Young Artist Award, National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore |
| 1999 |
1st Prize (Representational Category), 18th Painting of the Year Competition, The United Overseas Bank (UOB) Group, Singapore |
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Honourable Mention (2 awards), 1999 Singapore Turf Club Art Competition, Singapore |
| 1996 |
Juror’s Choice / Prize: Singapore Art Awards 96, 98 and 99, The Philip Morris Group of Companies, Singapore |
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Chen Chong Swee Overseas Art Scholarship, Chen Chong Swee Foundation and National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore |
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Top Prize, Philippe Charriol Foundation Contemporary Art Competition 1995/6, Singapore |
