Curriculum vitae
Born in 1974, Singapore (Singaporean-Australian)
Lives and works in Western Australia (WA), Australia (AU)
EDUCATION
Postgraduate Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education, SG, 2001.
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine Art Painting, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, 1998.
Diploma in Visual Arts Painting, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1997.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027
Hollowed Icons (Working title), WA, AU (in development)
2024
Twisted Bodies Tell Their Tales, 2nd Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024, Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 16.10.2024 – 09.11.2024
2023
When These Roots Encounter Rocks, Art Seasons, SG, 30.11.2023 – 06.01.2024
2019
Somewhere Too, Art Atrium Gallery, NSW, AU, 26.10.2019 – 09.11.2019
Somewhere, The Lobby (ARI), Swanbourne, WA, AU, 29.09.2019 – 06.10.2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse, SG, Prestige Gallery, SG, (in development)
25 Years, Art Seasons, SG (in development)
Cry Now, Prestige Gallery, SG, 10.01.2025 – 22.02.2025
2025
Indelible Marks, Art Seasons & Comma Space (ARI), SG, 19.09.2025 – 19.10.2025
The Other Singaporeans: Stories of Home and Identity, JW PROJECTS, SG, 16.08.2025 – 28.09.2025
Thirty-Two, Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 08.2025 – 09.2025
Life Rehearsals, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN, 14.06.2025 – 19.10.2025
2024
The Paper trails between Lion and Swan (Phase II), ArtSource (ARI), Fremantle, WA, AU, 09.06.2024 – 23.06.2024
DiaS’pora - Exploring Singapore’s Diasporic Ethos in the Art of Diaspora Artists, Art Seasons, SG, 17.01.2024 to 24.02.2024
The Paper trails between Lion and Swan (Phase I), Sculpture 2052 gallery (ARI), SG, 18.01.2024 – 25.02.2024
2023
(Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space (ARI), WA, AU, 10.06.2023 – 24.06.2023
HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, Spectrum Gallery, Edith Cowan University, WA, AU, 02.06.2023 – 30.03.2023
2022
The Dutch Project, West End Art Space, VIC, AU
2021
I am Not a Virus, Diversity Arts Australia, NSW, AU
A Place We Call Home, Stala Contemporary, WA, AU
2020
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
SIX: 2020, Mossenson Galleries, AU
2019
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
Tangency, Austrian Embassy, Beijing, CN
2018
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium with Live in Art, NSW, AU
Open Studio November/December, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, CN
No Waste Form 01, ADGY International Cultural Centre, Beijing, CN
Transcendence, Art Atrium with Live in Art, NSW, AU
Open Studio April, Bei Gao Studio, Beijing, CN
Relay, Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA, AU
2017
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2026
Finalist, 2026 The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, H Queen’s, HK, 24.04.2026 – 03.05.2026
Phillips Asia Headquarters, HK, 12.05.2026 – 15.05.2026
2025
Finalist, Collie Art Prize 2025, Collie Art Gallery, WA, AU
2024
Finalist, City of Belmont 2024 Art Awards, WA, AU
Finalist, City of Rockingham Art Prize 2024, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA, AU
2023
Finalist, City of Belmont 2023 Art Awards, WA, AU
2022
Winner, Special Selection Award, E.SUN Bank Awards (3rd Edition, International Category), Taipei, TW
2021
Winner, Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize 2021, VIC, AU
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, VIC, AU
Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2021, City of Joondalup, WA, AU
2020
Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award 2020: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, VIC, AU
2019
Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2019, City of Joondalup, WA, AU
2017
Finalist, 13th Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA, AU
ART FAIRS
2026
4th Edition ART SG 2026: Futures, art fair, JW Projects Booth, SG, 21.01.2026 – 24.01.2026
2019
Sydney Contemporary 2019, Art Atrium Booth, Carriageworks, NSW, AU
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AU: St John of God Subiaco Hospital, WA • CN: Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing • TW: E. Sun Bank, Taipei
MONOGRAPHS + SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Morelli N., Twisted Bodies Tell Their Tales, 10.2024
Lee T., When These Roots Encounter Rocks, 11.2023
Abdullah A.R., Somewhere, 09.2019
REVIEWS
S. Richard, Visual Art: Cry Now at Prestige Gallery, Bakchormeeboy (independent Singapore art platform), 15.01.2026
Lim R., Indelible Marks Peels Back Layers of Colonial History in Australia and Singapore, pluralartmag.com, 25.09.2025
Cai C., Foreignness and Belonging in The Other Singaporeans, pluralartmag.com, 16.09.2025
Jorgenson D., Hollow Icons: Desmond Mah at Mossenson (23.10.2024), Dispatch Review: 2024 Anthology, UniPrint, UWA, 2025
Beard S., Paper Trails Between Lion and Swan, Dispatch Review, 27.07.2024
Beard S., Transmutations (23.06.2023), Dispatch Review: 2023 Anthology, UniPrint, University of Western Australia, p.63, 2024
Starcken S., A Place We Call Home, Art Almanac, 29.07.2021
OTHER EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Dowling C., Indelible Marks: Resistance, Memory, and Solidarity Across Nations; Kamiliah Bahdar, Silent Song. Indelible Marks, 09.2025
Goh W.H., Defining The Other Singaporeans, 08.2025
Na Rongkun, Life Rehearsals; Carol Yinghua Lu, Life Rehearsals as a Metaphor; Li Mu, The Isolation of Autism. Life Rehearsals, 06.2025
See H., The Paper trails between Lion and Swan, 06.2024
Luoyang Chen, (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, 06.2023
See H., HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, 02.2023
INTERVIEWS + PREVIEWS
Wang N., The 2026 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Art & Market, Hong Kong, 21.04.2026
Yong C., Exhibition Cry Now, preview, The Straits Times Newspaper, Singapore, Arts l Life, Pg. C5, 09.01.2026
Liu K., Cry Now, interview, Asian Geographic, Issue 170, cover & p.16 - 21, 2025
Huang Xiangjing, Eight artists join the exhibition to explore the home and identity, Lianhe Zaobao Newspaper, Singapore, Fu Kan section. Pg. 03, 29.08.2025
Hodgson I., The Other Singaporeans, interview, Art World Database, artworlddatabase.com, 28.08.2025
Huang Bairan, Life Rehearsals, ARTFORUM (CN), 25.07.2025, (image of works featured).
Buratti R., Upfront/ Previews, Art Collector (Australian magazine), Issue Oct – Dec 2024, p. 40
Di Ciero L., Colonial Dualities, interview + preview, Artists Chronicle, Sept/Oct Edition, p. 18, 2024
Pollock S., Arty Exchange, Fremantle Herald. Volume 35 Vol. 21, Pg. 10, 25.06.2024
Yong C. & Hoo S., New Ways of Seeing, The Straits Times Newspaper, Singapore, Arts l Life, Pg. C5, 08.02.2024
Sun Jingfei, Desmond Mah’s “Migrant’s Language”: 马福民个展 述说个人移民语言, Lianhe Zaobao Newspaper, SG, Life section. Pg. 03, 29 .12.2023
Chinese Artists in America Network, Where is my hometown: 何处是吾乡, artist talk, 25.06.2023
Pollock S., Arty metaphor, Fremantle Herald. Volume 34 Vol. 22, Pg. 13, 03.06.2022
Bowman B., (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, interview, Radio RTRFM 92.1 (Artbeat), 02.06.2023
Wang Zheng, Abstract Method: Resonance Beyond Form, Chinese Artists in America Network Talk No. 8, 21.05.2023
Mamta Chitnis Sen, Clever Use of A DIY Approach, The Daily Guardian, New Delhi, Pg. 13, 20.02.2023
Ones to Watch, Art/Edit + Interior Design (Australian magazine), Issue #29, Spring Edition. Pg. 22, 2021
Beaumount S., The demolition of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Simon Beaumont's Weekends Show, Radio 6PR, 27.06.2021
McNeill S., Six artists with six new ideas, Post newspaper (WA), 11.2020
McKeough C., Out of the darkness, Seesaw Magazine (WA), *online, 11.2020
Eveland D., Yesterday’s Monsters, Spittoon Literary Magazine (Beijing), Issue #5, 06.2019
MEDIA + OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024 Festival Guide, August – October 2024, P. 48
E. Sun Bank Prize International Category, TVBS Morning News (Taipei, Taiwan), 05.12.2022
See H., Dialogic Painting and Mythology: Cross-cultural collaboration amidst COVID restrictions, ACUADS 2020 Conference
Crisis & Resilience: art and design look ahead, 11.2020
GRANTS + SCHOLARSHIPS
Arts Projects for Groups Grant - 2025 to 2026 - Round 1, Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse, DCITS, 2025
Arts Short Notice Activity Program 2025 - 2026 Round 1, Cry Now & ART SG exhibitions, DCITS, 2025
Arts Projects for Groups Grant, Indelible Marks exhibition (Testament former name), DLGSC, 2025
Arts Projects for Individuals Grant, Twisted Bodies… exhibition, DLGSC, 2024
Arts U-15k Grant, (Re)Borrowing Arrows… exhibition, DLGSC, 2023
Six: 2020 Art Grant, Mossenson Art Foundation with Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 2020
The National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant, Sidney Myer Fund & the Myer Foundation, AU, 2020
Overseas Studies Scholarship, Lee Foundation SG, Loughborough University, UK, 1997
Overseas Studies Grant, National Arts Council SG, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1997
Art Studies Grant, National Arts Council SG, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1996
RESIDENCIES + OPPORTUNITIES
boorda yeyi Foundational Symposium, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), WA, AU, 2025
Fremantle Arts Centre Studio Program, Moores Studio/Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, AU (6 months), 2023
Another Project Space Art Residency, WA, AU (1 month), 2019
Red Gate + Yew Chung International School of Beijing Residency, Beijing, CN (3 months), 11.2018 - 01,2019
Red Gate Residency, Beijing, CN (1 month), 04.2018
CONFERENCES + LECTURES + SEMINARS
2026
Presenting ‘Portraitures That Speak Back’ for Who Speaks? Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity, Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange (ADPRex) X Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (27-29 July 2026)
COMMISSIONS
2020
I Am Not A Virus project, painting, Diversity Arts Australia, NSW, AU
Today in My Life -Intermission, video, ScreenWest, WA, AU
OTHER INFO
2026
Apexart (NY) International Exhibition Grant, Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse proposal ranked 23/406
2025
Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2026 nomination, nominated by Sofia Coombe & Tanya Michele Amador, SAF, HK
Creative Australia Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups, grant application ranked in the top 33% of the round
2024
Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2025 nomination, nominated by Daryl Goh, SAF, HK
PICA & Treasure Hill Artist Village Taipei Residency 2025, shortlisted, final 3 candidates
Apexart (NY) International Exhibition Grant, Indelible Marks (Testament) proposal ranked 28/658
2023
MA (Painting), first round offer, Royal College of Art, London, UK
SOCIAL MEDIA
IG: desmondmah_
*DCITS Department of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport, Western Australia Government Funding (former DLGSC) • AU Australia • CN China • HK Hong Kong • SG Singapore • TW Taiwan • UK United Kingdom
Born in 1974, Singapore (Singaporean-Australian)
Lives and works in Western Australia (WA), Australia (AU)
EDUCATION
Postgraduate Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education, SG, 2001.
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine Art Painting, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, 1998.
Diploma in Visual Arts Painting, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1997.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027
Hollowed Icons (Working title), WA, AU (in development)
2024
Twisted Bodies Tell Their Tales, 2nd Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024, Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 16.10.2024 – 09.11.2024
2023
When These Roots Encounter Rocks, Art Seasons, SG, 30.11.2023 – 06.01.2024
2019
Somewhere Too, Art Atrium Gallery, NSW, AU, 26.10.2019 – 09.11.2019
Somewhere, The Lobby (ARI), Swanbourne, WA, AU, 29.09.2019 – 06.10.2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse, SG, Prestige Gallery, SG, (in development)
25 Years, Art Seasons, SG (in development)
Cry Now, Prestige Gallery, SG, 10.01.2025 – 22.02.2025
2025
Indelible Marks, Art Seasons & Comma Space (ARI), SG, 19.09.2025 – 19.10.2025
The Other Singaporeans: Stories of Home and Identity, JW PROJECTS, SG, 16.08.2025 – 28.09.2025
Thirty-Two, Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 08.2025 – 09.2025
Life Rehearsals, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN, 14.06.2025 – 19.10.2025
2024
The Paper trails between Lion and Swan (Phase II), ArtSource (ARI), Fremantle, WA, AU, 09.06.2024 – 23.06.2024
DiaS’pora - Exploring Singapore’s Diasporic Ethos in the Art of Diaspora Artists, Art Seasons, SG, 17.01.2024 to 24.02.2024
The Paper trails between Lion and Swan (Phase I), Sculpture 2052 gallery (ARI), SG, 18.01.2024 – 25.02.2024
2023
(Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, Moores Building Contemporary Arts Space (ARI), WA, AU, 10.06.2023 – 24.06.2023
HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, Spectrum Gallery, Edith Cowan University, WA, AU, 02.06.2023 – 30.03.2023
2022
The Dutch Project, West End Art Space, VIC, AU
2021
I am Not a Virus, Diversity Arts Australia, NSW, AU
A Place We Call Home, Stala Contemporary, WA, AU
2020
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
SIX: 2020, Mossenson Galleries, AU
2019
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
Tangency, Austrian Embassy, Beijing, CN
2018
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium with Live in Art, NSW, AU
Open Studio November/December, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, CN
No Waste Form 01, ADGY International Cultural Centre, Beijing, CN
Transcendence, Art Atrium with Live in Art, NSW, AU
Open Studio April, Bei Gao Studio, Beijing, CN
Relay, Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA, AU
2017
Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium, NSW, AU
AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2026
Finalist, 2026 The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, H Queen’s, HK, 24.04.2026 – 03.05.2026
Phillips Asia Headquarters, HK, 12.05.2026 – 15.05.2026
2025
Finalist, Collie Art Prize 2025, Collie Art Gallery, WA, AU
2024
Finalist, City of Belmont 2024 Art Awards, WA, AU
Finalist, City of Rockingham Art Prize 2024, Rockingham Arts Centre, WA, AU
2023
Finalist, City of Belmont 2023 Art Awards, WA, AU
2022
Winner, Special Selection Award, E.SUN Bank Awards (3rd Edition, International Category), Taipei, TW
2021
Winner, Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize 2021, VIC, AU
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, VIC, AU
Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2021, City of Joondalup, WA, AU
2020
Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award 2020: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, VIC, AU
2019
Finalist, Invitation Art Prize 2019, City of Joondalup, WA, AU
2017
Finalist, 13th Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA, AU
ART FAIRS
2026
4th Edition ART SG 2026: Futures, art fair, JW Projects Booth, SG, 21.01.2026 – 24.01.2026
2019
Sydney Contemporary 2019, Art Atrium Booth, Carriageworks, NSW, AU
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AU: St John of God Subiaco Hospital, WA • CN: Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing • TW: E. Sun Bank, Taipei
MONOGRAPHS + SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Morelli N., Twisted Bodies Tell Their Tales, 10.2024
Lee T., When These Roots Encounter Rocks, 11.2023
Abdullah A.R., Somewhere, 09.2019
REVIEWS
S. Richard, Visual Art: Cry Now at Prestige Gallery, Bakchormeeboy (independent Singapore art platform), 15.01.2026
Lim R., Indelible Marks Peels Back Layers of Colonial History in Australia and Singapore, pluralartmag.com, 25.09.2025
Cai C., Foreignness and Belonging in The Other Singaporeans, pluralartmag.com, 16.09.2025
Jorgenson D., Hollow Icons: Desmond Mah at Mossenson (23.10.2024), Dispatch Review: 2024 Anthology, UniPrint, UWA, 2025
Beard S., Paper Trails Between Lion and Swan, Dispatch Review, 27.07.2024
Beard S., Transmutations (23.06.2023), Dispatch Review: 2023 Anthology, UniPrint, University of Western Australia, p.63, 2024
Starcken S., A Place We Call Home, Art Almanac, 29.07.2021
OTHER EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Dowling C., Indelible Marks: Resistance, Memory, and Solidarity Across Nations; Kamiliah Bahdar, Silent Song. Indelible Marks, 09.2025
Goh W.H., Defining The Other Singaporeans, 08.2025
Na Rongkun, Life Rehearsals; Carol Yinghua Lu, Life Rehearsals as a Metaphor; Li Mu, The Isolation of Autism. Life Rehearsals, 06.2025
See H., The Paper trails between Lion and Swan, 06.2024
Luoyang Chen, (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, 06.2023
See H., HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, 02.2023
INTERVIEWS + PREVIEWS
Wang N., The 2026 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Art & Market, Hong Kong, 21.04.2026
Yong C., Exhibition Cry Now, preview, The Straits Times Newspaper, Singapore, Arts l Life, Pg. C5, 09.01.2026
Liu K., Cry Now, interview, Asian Geographic, Issue 170, cover & p.16 - 21, 2025
Huang Xiangjing, Eight artists join the exhibition to explore the home and identity, Lianhe Zaobao Newspaper, Singapore, Fu Kan section. Pg. 03, 29.08.2025
Hodgson I., The Other Singaporeans, interview, Art World Database, artworlddatabase.com, 28.08.2025
Huang Bairan, Life Rehearsals, ARTFORUM (CN), 25.07.2025, (image of works featured).
Buratti R., Upfront/ Previews, Art Collector (Australian magazine), Issue Oct – Dec 2024, p. 40
Di Ciero L., Colonial Dualities, interview + preview, Artists Chronicle, Sept/Oct Edition, p. 18, 2024
Pollock S., Arty Exchange, Fremantle Herald. Volume 35 Vol. 21, Pg. 10, 25.06.2024
Yong C. & Hoo S., New Ways of Seeing, The Straits Times Newspaper, Singapore, Arts l Life, Pg. C5, 08.02.2024
Sun Jingfei, Desmond Mah’s “Migrant’s Language”: 马福民个展 述说个人移民语言, Lianhe Zaobao Newspaper, SG, Life section. Pg. 03, 29 .12.2023
Chinese Artists in America Network, Where is my hometown: 何处是吾乡, artist talk, 25.06.2023
Pollock S., Arty metaphor, Fremantle Herald. Volume 34 Vol. 22, Pg. 13, 03.06.2022
Bowman B., (Re)Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats 草船借箭, interview, Radio RTRFM 92.1 (Artbeat), 02.06.2023
Wang Zheng, Abstract Method: Resonance Beyond Form, Chinese Artists in America Network Talk No. 8, 21.05.2023
Mamta Chitnis Sen, Clever Use of A DIY Approach, The Daily Guardian, New Delhi, Pg. 13, 20.02.2023
Ones to Watch, Art/Edit + Interior Design (Australian magazine), Issue #29, Spring Edition. Pg. 22, 2021
Beaumount S., The demolition of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Simon Beaumont's Weekends Show, Radio 6PR, 27.06.2021
McNeill S., Six artists with six new ideas, Post newspaper (WA), 11.2020
McKeough C., Out of the darkness, Seesaw Magazine (WA), *online, 11.2020
Eveland D., Yesterday’s Monsters, Spittoon Literary Magazine (Beijing), Issue #5, 06.2019
MEDIA + OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2024 Festival Guide, August – October 2024, P. 48
E. Sun Bank Prize International Category, TVBS Morning News (Taipei, Taiwan), 05.12.2022
See H., Dialogic Painting and Mythology: Cross-cultural collaboration amidst COVID restrictions, ACUADS 2020 Conference
Crisis & Resilience: art and design look ahead, 11.2020
GRANTS + SCHOLARSHIPS
Arts Projects for Groups Grant - 2025 to 2026 - Round 1, Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse, DCITS, 2025
Arts Short Notice Activity Program 2025 - 2026 Round 1, Cry Now & ART SG exhibitions, DCITS, 2025
Arts Projects for Groups Grant, Indelible Marks exhibition (Testament former name), DLGSC, 2025
Arts Projects for Individuals Grant, Twisted Bodies… exhibition, DLGSC, 2024
Arts U-15k Grant, (Re)Borrowing Arrows… exhibition, DLGSC, 2023
Six: 2020 Art Grant, Mossenson Art Foundation with Mossenson Galleries, WA, AU, 2020
The National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant, Sidney Myer Fund & the Myer Foundation, AU, 2020
Overseas Studies Scholarship, Lee Foundation SG, Loughborough University, UK, 1997
Overseas Studies Grant, National Arts Council SG, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1997
Art Studies Grant, National Arts Council SG, LASALLE College of the Arts, SG, 1996
RESIDENCIES + OPPORTUNITIES
boorda yeyi Foundational Symposium, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), WA, AU, 2025
Fremantle Arts Centre Studio Program, Moores Studio/Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, AU (6 months), 2023
Another Project Space Art Residency, WA, AU (1 month), 2019
Red Gate + Yew Chung International School of Beijing Residency, Beijing, CN (3 months), 11.2018 - 01,2019
Red Gate Residency, Beijing, CN (1 month), 04.2018
CONFERENCES + LECTURES + SEMINARS
2026
Presenting ‘Portraitures That Speak Back’ for Who Speaks? Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity, Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange (ADPRex) X Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (27-29 July 2026)
COMMISSIONS
2020
I Am Not A Virus project, painting, Diversity Arts Australia, NSW, AU
Today in My Life -Intermission, video, ScreenWest, WA, AU
OTHER INFO
2026
Apexart (NY) International Exhibition Grant, Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse proposal ranked 23/406
2025
Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2026 nomination, nominated by Sofia Coombe & Tanya Michele Amador, SAF, HK
Creative Australia Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups, grant application ranked in the top 33% of the round
2024
Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2025 nomination, nominated by Daryl Goh, SAF, HK
PICA & Treasure Hill Artist Village Taipei Residency 2025, shortlisted, final 3 candidates
Apexart (NY) International Exhibition Grant, Indelible Marks (Testament) proposal ranked 28/658
2023
MA (Painting), first round offer, Royal College of Art, London, UK
SOCIAL MEDIA
IG: desmondmah_
*DCITS Department of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport, Western Australia Government Funding (former DLGSC) • AU Australia • CN China • HK Hong Kong • SG Singapore • TW Taiwan • UK United Kingdom