Curriculum vitae
Born: 1974, Singapore (Australian), resides in Boorloo, the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people (Perth, 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
2021 The Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change, juried prize exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley (Victoria), Australia (Delayed)
Invitation Art Prize 2021, juried prize exhibition, City of Joondalup (Western Australia), Australia (Opening 9 October)
*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
AWARDS & GRANTS
2021 Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2021, City of Joondalup, Western Australia
Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley (Victoria), Australia
Winner, Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize, Mornington (Victoria), Australia
Arts U-15k Grant for A Place We Call Home group 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
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 Harrison See, by ScreenWest, Western Australia
COLLECTIONS
Judith Neilson, New South Wales, Australia
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
Ones to Watch, Art/Edit + Interior Design (Australian magazine), Issue # 29, Spring Edition 2021
Starcken S., *A Place We Call Home, Art Almanac (online), 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
https://www.instagram.com/desmondmah_
* external website links.