Curriculum vitae
Born: 1974, Singapore (Australian), resides in Boorloo (Perth), the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people (Western Australia).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Archaeology of the Flesh, opening remarks by Milenko Prvački (Senior Fellow, LASALLE College), Art Seasons, Singapore (Dec 2)
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, D, Mah & CK Yeo, Sculpture 2052 gallery, Singapore (Jan 2024)
2023 (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, opening remarks by the Hon Stephen Pratt MLC (South Metropolitan Region), curated by
D. Mah, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space, 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
2022 E.SUN Bank Awards 3rd Edition, touring winners' exhibition across various states till mid 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, DLGSC, Fremantle,
Western Australia, Australia (9 to 24 June 2023)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Finalist, City of Belmont 2023 Art Awards, Belmont, Western Australia
Arts U-15k Grant (Re)Borrowing Arrows… exhibition, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), Western Australia
2022 Winner, Special Selection Award, E.SUN Bank Awards 3rd Edition (International Category), Taipei, Taiwan
Arts U-15k Grant (HERENOW23 exhibition), DLGSC, 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), DLGSC, 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, 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
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
Chinese Artists in America Network, *Where is my hometown: 何处是吾乡, artist talk, 25 June 2023
Beard S., *Transmutations, Dispatch Review, 23 June 2023
Pollock S., Arty Metaphor, Fremantle Herald. Volume 34 Vol. 22, Pg. , 3 June 2023
Bowman B., *(Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, interview, Radio RTRFM 92.1 (Artbeat), 2 June 2023
Wang Zheng, Abstract Method: Resonance Beyond Form, Chinese Artists in America Network Talk No. 8, 21 May 2023
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
https://www.instagram.com/desmondmah_
EDUCATION
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
OTHER INFO
2023 MA (Painting) First round offer, the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
* external website links.
Born: 1974, Singapore (Australian), resides in Boorloo (Perth), the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people (Western Australia).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Archaeology of the Flesh, opening remarks by Milenko Prvački (Senior Fellow, LASALLE College), Art Seasons, Singapore (Dec 2)
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, D, Mah & CK Yeo, Sculpture 2052 gallery, Singapore (Jan 2024)
2023 (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, opening remarks by the Hon Stephen Pratt MLC (South Metropolitan Region), curated by
D. Mah, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space, 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
2022 E.SUN Bank Awards 3rd Edition, touring winners' exhibition across various states till mid 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, DLGSC, Fremantle,
Western Australia, Australia (9 to 24 June 2023)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Finalist, City of Belmont 2023 Art Awards, Belmont, Western Australia
Arts U-15k Grant (Re)Borrowing Arrows… exhibition, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), Western Australia
2022 Winner, Special Selection Award, E.SUN Bank Awards 3rd Edition (International Category), Taipei, Taiwan
Arts U-15k Grant (HERENOW23 exhibition), DLGSC, 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), DLGSC, 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, 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
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
Chinese Artists in America Network, *Where is my hometown: 何处是吾乡, artist talk, 25 June 2023
Beard S., *Transmutations, Dispatch Review, 23 June 2023
Pollock S., Arty Metaphor, Fremantle Herald. Volume 34 Vol. 22, Pg. , 3 June 2023
Bowman B., *(Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, interview, Radio RTRFM 92.1 (Artbeat), 2 June 2023
Wang Zheng, Abstract Method: Resonance Beyond Form, Chinese Artists in America Network Talk No. 8, 21 May 2023
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
https://www.instagram.com/desmondmah_
EDUCATION
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
OTHER INFO
2023 MA (Painting) First round offer, the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
* external website links.