DESMOND MAH ★ 马福民 ★ MA FUMIN
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Curriculum vitae
 
Born: 1974, Singapore (Australian), resides in Boorloo/Perth, the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people (Western Australia).
 

EDUCATION
 
2011    – 2012  Certificate in Horticulture, West Coast Tafe Joondalup, Western Australia
2000 – 2001  Postgraduate Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education, Singapore
1997   -  1998  Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine Art Painting, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
1994   – 1997   Diploma in Visual Arts Painting, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2019       Somewhere Too, opening remarks by Dr Oliver Krischer (Deputy Director of China Studies, University of Sydney), Art Atrium Gallery, Botany Bay
               ,New South Wales/Australia
               Somewhere, The Lobby, Swanbourne, Western Australia/Australia
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024    The Paper trails between Lion and Swan, curated by Dr. H. See & CK Yeo, Sculpture 2052 gallery, Singapore (Jan 2024)
2023     (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, curated by Mah, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space, supported by Fremantle Arts
              Centre (FAC), Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia/Australia (9 to 24 June 2023)
              HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, curated by Dr. H. See, Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, Western Australia/
              Australia (1 Feb to March 30, 2023)
2022     E.SUN Bank Awards, touring winners' exhibition across Taiwan till 2023, Taiwan
             ‘The Dutch Project’ Exhibition, selected exhibition, West End Art Space, Melbourne (Victoria), Australia
2021      Be Your Own Hero Art Prize, juried prize exhibition (web), The Push US, New York City, USA
              The Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change, juried prize exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley (Victoria), Australia
              Invitation Art Prize 2021, juried prize exhibition, City of Joondalup (Western Australia), Australia
              *I am Not a Virus, commissioned group exhibition (web), Diversity Arts Australia, New South Wales, Australia
              A Place We Call Home, group exhibition, Stala Contemporary, West Perth (Western Australia), Australia
              Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize 2021, juried prize exhibition, Mornington (Victoria), Australia  
2020    Summer Sojourn, opening remarks by Joanna Capon OAM (Board Director of Museum of Chinese, Australia), group exhibition, Art Atrium,
              Botany Bay (New South Wales), Australia
              SIX : 2020, opening remarks by the Hon. David Templeman MLA (Minister for the Arts), juried exhibition, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco       
              (Western Australia), Australia
              The Incinerator Art Award 2020: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, juried prize exhibition (web), Victoria, Australia
2019      Summer Sojourn, opening remarks by Jimmy Barnes AO, Art Atrium, group exhibition, Botany Bay (New South Wales), Australia
              Invitation Art Prize 2019, juried prize exhibition, City of Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia
              Sydney Contemporary 2019, Art Atrium Booth, Carriageworks (New South Wales), Australia
              Tangentcy, curated group exhibition by Fernando Mesquita, Austrian Embassy, Beijing, China
2018      Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium with Live in Art, Surry Hills (New South Wales), Australia
              Open Studio December, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
              Open Studio November, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
              No Waste Form 01, curated group exhibition by Li Gang, ADGY International Cultural Center, Beijing, China
             Transcendence, curated exhibition by Simon Chan, Art Atrium with Live in Art, Surry Hills (New South Wales), Australia
             Open Studio April, Bei Gao Studio, Beijing, China
             Relay, curated group exhibition by Louella Hayes, Midland Junction Arts Centre (Western Australia), Australia
2017     Summer Sojourn, group exhibition, Art Atrium, Bondi Junction (New South Wales), Australia
             13th Sculpture by the Sea, juried prize exhibition, Cottesloe, Western Australia
2004   Teachers as Artists/Artists as Teachers, curated group exhibition by Cecily Cheo, National Institute of Education Gallery, Singapore
1998    Fine Art Painting Degree Show Graduation Show, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
1997    Anthology, LASALLE graduation show, LASALLE Gallery, Singapore


CURATION EXHIBITIONS

2023   (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space, supported by (FAC), Fremantle (Western 
            Australia), Australia (9 to 24 June 2023)

AWARDS & GRANTS

2022   Winner, Special Selection Award, E.SUN Bank Awards (International Category), Taipei, Taiwan
            Arts U-15k Grant (HERENOW23 exhibition), Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) Culture and the Arts,    
            Western Australia
2021    Winner, Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize, Mornington (Victoria), Australia
            Finalist, Be Your Own Hero Art Prize, The Push US, New York City, USA
            Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley (Victoria), Australia
            Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2021, City of Joondalup, Western Australia
            Arts U-15k Grant (A Place We Call Home exhibition), Department of Local Government, Sport & Cultural Industries (DLGSC) Culture and  
            the Arts, Western Australia
2020   Art Grant, Mossenson Art Foundation with Mossenson Galleries, Western Australia
            Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award 2020: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Victoria, Australia
            The National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant, Sidney Myer Fund & the Myer Foundation
2019   Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2019, City of Joondalup, Western Australia
2017   Finalist, 13th Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Western Australia
1997   Overseas Studies Scholarship, Lee Foundation, Singapore
           Overseas Studies Grant, National Arts Council, Singapore
1996   Art Grant, National Arts Council, Singapore


RESIDENCIES
 
2023  Fremantle Arts Centre Studio Program (6 months), Moores Contemporary Art Space Studios, Fremantle, Western Australia
2019   Another Project Space Art Residency, Western Australia
2018   Red Gate + Yew Chung International School of Beijing Residency (November 2018 - January 2019) , Beijing, China
           Red Gate Residency (April 2018), Beijing, China


COMMISSIONS
 
2020   I Am Not A Virus project, commissioned work by Diversity Arts Australia, New South Wales, Australia
            Today in My Life -Intermission, commissioned time-lapse video project with H. See, by ScreenWest, Western Australia


OTHER INFO

2023    MA (Painting) First round offer, the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom


COLLECTIONS
 
Judith Neilson, New South Wales, Australia
E.Sun Bank Art Collection, Taiwan
City of Vincent, Public Art Collection, Western Australia
Tony and Gwyneth Lennon Family Foundation, Western Australia
Embassy of Austria, Beijing, China
Private collections in Australia, China, Singapore, Taiwan and UK

 
PUBLICATIONS

Mamta Chitnis Sen, *Clever Use of A DIY Approach, The Daily Guardian, New Delhi, Pg. 13, 20 Feb 2023
*E.Sun Bank Prize International Category, TVBS Morning News (Taipei, Taiwan), 5 Dec 2022
Ones to Watch, Art/Edit + Interior Design (Australian magazine), Issue # 29, Spring Edition 2021
Starcken S., *A Place We Call Home, exhibition review, Art Almanac, 29 July 2021
Beaumount S., The demolition of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Simon Beaumont's Weekends Show, Radio 6PR, 27 June 2021
See H., *Dialogic Painting and Mythology: Cross-cultural collaboration amidst COVID restrictions, ACUADS 2020 Conference, Crisis & Resilience: art and design looks ahead, November 2020
McNeill S., Six artists with six new ideas, Post newspaper (Western Australia), November 2020
McKeough C., Out of the darkness, Seesaw Magazine (Western Australia), *online, November 2020
Eveland D., Yesterday’s Monsters, Spittoon Literary Magazine (Beijing), Issue #5, June 2019
 

SOCIAL MEDIA
 
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