HO TZU NYEN/ HE ZIYAN

Name: Ho Tzu Nyen/He Ziyan
Date of Birth: 03 ­ 07 ­ 1976
Place of Birth: Singapore
Lives and works in Singapore
Tel: 065-98367131
Email: tzulogy@msn.com

EDUCATION
2003 (ongoing) Master of Art (by Research), Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
1999-2002 Bachelor of Creative Arts, School of Creative Arts (Dean's Award), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia

CURRENT
2005 - Singapore Desk Editor, Art Asia Pacific
2003 - Associate Artist with the Substation

SOLO PROJECTS
2005 4 x 4 ­ Episodes of Singapore Art, A Project involving 4 episodes of Television Broadcast over Arts Central, a Forum at The Substation, and information/publicity materials distributed at various sites related to the Singapore Art Show, 2005
2003 Utama ­ Every Name in History is I, An Exhibition of Film and Paintings at the Substation Gallery, Singapore

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan
2005 No Time for Space, Para-Site, Hong Kong
2005 Utama, (performance lecture), Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2005 Utama, (performance lecture), Singapore Seasons, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2005 2 South Seas, 3 Chairs, 4 Suits (performance lecture) Singapore Seasons, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2005 Screening of film, .MOV Digital Film Festival, Manila, Philippines
2004 Video Installation, SENI, Singapore Art Museum
2004 Installation, Image Smugglers, 26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
2004 Paintings, Display, The Podium, Makati City, Philippines
2004 Screening of film, at the Venice Architectural Biennale, Singapore Pavilion, Venice
2004 Screening of film, at Short Cuts, Best of Singapore Short Films, Singapore History Museum
2004 Screening of film at Performance Studies International - Perform State Interrogate #10, Singapore Management University
2004 Paintings, Painting as Process ­ Re-evaluating Painting, The Earl Lu Gallery
2004 Poster, The Urbanart Project, public installation, Melbourne
2004 Screening of film, Conference on New Southeast Asian Cinemas, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2004 Screening of film, Loop in Motion, Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2004 Screening of film, Switch Media Art Festival Pathiharn Electron [Supernatural], Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai
2004 Screening of film, Bangkok International Film Festival
2003 Hive Digital Film Festival, Singapore
2003 Painting, The 22nd UOB Painting of the Year, The Jendela, The Esplanade, Singapore
2003 Photography, Subverted Boundaries, Sculpture Square Annual Show, Singapore
2003 Video Installation, Cinepolitans ­ Film, Art and the City, at the Jendela, The Esplanade, Singapore
2003 Photography, Art Bytes, The Tunnel, The Esplanade, Singapore
2003 Performative Installation, 'Anyone', Art Throb, The Esplanade, Singapore.
2002 Paintings, The B.E.A.U.T.Y Show, Utterly Art Gallery. Singapore
2002 Paintings, The 21st UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition, UOB Plaza, Singapore
2002 Photography, Young Artists Exhibition, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore.
2002 Paintings, Nokia Arts Awards, Regional Finals, Silparkon University, Bangkok
2002 Paintings, The Auction Show, Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore
2001-2002 Installation, Nokia Singapore Arts 2001, Histories, Identities, Technologies, Spaces, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2001 Paintings, Nokia Arts Awards, Eye on the World, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2001 Paintings, The 20th UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition, UOB Plaza, Singapore
2001 Installation, 'The Fold' ­ Installation at The Mezzanine, School of Creative Arts, Melbourne
2000 Paintings, 'Sensations of Becoming', Glass Street Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Demonstrative Installation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2000 Screening of film 13th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore Short Film Category
2000 Drawings, The Crunch Show, The Griffins Gallery, Melbourne.
1999-2000 installation, The Post-Ulu Show, (with The Artist Village), The Substation Gallery, Singapore.
1999 Screening of film, 12th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore Short Film Category, Goethe Institute, Singapore
1999 Installation, Jacques Derrida Exhibition and Prize, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
1999 Installation. Melbourne Arts Festival Fringe, Victorian State Library, Melbourne.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2003-2005 Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
2003 Finalist for Hive Film Festival
2003 Project Grant from NAC, Lee Foundation
2003 Film Grant from Singapore Film Commission
2003 Highly Commended, 22nd UOB Painting of the Year
2002 Highly Commended, 21st UOB Painting of the Year
2002 Dean's Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements, University of Melbourne
2001 National Winner, Nokia Arts Awards, Eye on the World Painting Competition
2001 First Prize, Abstract Category, 20th UOB Painting of the Year
2001 Highly Commended, 20th UOB Painting of the Year
2000-2001 Overseas Arts Bursary, National Arts Council
1999 First Prize, The Jacques Derrida Exhibition and Prize, Melbourne
1995-1996 Humanities Scholarship, Public Service Commission

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES
2002 'Oi! Oi! 1,2,3, Everybody Let's Say EN-TRO-PY!' The Young Artists Exhibition, Plastic Kinetic Worms

SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES (by Ho Tzu Nyen)
2005 'Cheo Chai Hiang ­ The Time is Out of Joint' ART Asia Pacific, No. 45
2005 'R(A)' in ART Asia Pacific, No. 45
2005 'Lim Tzay Chuen ­ The Sublime and the Ridiculous' in ART Asia Pacific, No. 44
2005 'The Flying Circus Project: 2004' in ART Asia Pacific,, No. 44
2004 'The Dialectics of Adolescence' (The Wild Ones) ­ Video Art in Australia in REALTIME, available at http://www.realtimearts.net/maap04/ho_video.html
2004 'The Afterimage ­ Images of Otherness in Singaporean Film' ­ upcoming anthology on Singaporean Cinema, edited by Dr Khoo Geik Cheng
2004 'Utama ­ Some Notes on a Minor Singaporean Film' ­ upcoming in anthology on Southeast Asian Cinema, edited by Dr Sophia Siddique
2004 'Immersion and Performativity' ­ catalogue for Future of Imagination
2004 'Vincent Leow' ­ upcoming, in ART Asia Pacific, No. 43
2004 'Perpetual Beginnings ­ Strands of Processes in Painting' in Painting as Process, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-College of the Arts, 2004
2004 'The Last Laugh' in ART Asia Pacific, No. 41
2004 'Strange Fruit' in ART Asia Pacific, No. 40
2003 'The Fiction of Science Fictions' in Broadsheet, Vol. 32 No.4, 12/2003 ­ 2/2004
2003 'Heartland Reclamation', in Singapore Architect 219
2003 'Utama: The Other Founder', in ISH 4.3, 2003
2003 'A Montage of the City Through History Or Some Notes on the Interlocking of Time and Space' in Cinepolitans-Inhabitants of a Filmic City, Catalogue, 2003
2002 'Oi! Oi! 1,2,3, Everybody Lets Say 'Entropy!' Curator's Note for Young Artist Show in Vehicle, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 6/2002
2002 'I/Eye is Another: A Review of the Nokia Arts Awards Through An Interview with Ho Tzu Nyen; An Investigation into Abstraction, Language and Simulation' by He Ziyan, in Vehicle, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 5/2002
2002 'Christine Monceau's Recent Work', in Vehicle, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 5/2002
2002 'Definitely Maybe: Review of Tang Mun Kit's Solo Exhibition', in Vehicle, Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 4/2002
2001 'Plura Plura Sakura: Review of Young Artists Show, 2001', in Vehicle, Contemporary Visual Arts, no.3/2001

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
2005 3 Chairs, Globalization and Representation, University of Brighton, Brighton
2004 4 Suits, at PSI (Performance Studies International), Singapore
2004 The Cat in Singapore History, at Animalities, Substation, Sept Fest, Singapore
2004 The Story of 3 Chairs, at Conceptual Art in Singapore, conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
2004 2 South Seas, at the Conference of Future of Imagination, Sculpture Square, Singapore

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (on Ho Tzu Nyen)
2005 Some Artists to Catch at the Singapore Biennale, by Clara Chow, Life, 7 Dec 2005, pp.3
2005 (4 x 4) x 4, by Jeanine Tang, The Substations Magazine at http://www.substation.org/magazine/issue03/ft_4x4x4.html
2005 Four to the Fore, by Clara Chow, Life, Straits Times, 27 Sept 2005
2005 Art for the Nation, by David Chew, Today, 28 Sept 2005
2005 Desiring Temasek, by Lim Qinyi, Catalogue for the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005
2005 Diving in Parallel Realities, by Kuroda Raiji, Catalogue for the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005,
2005 The Footnote Artist, by Lee Weng Choy, Catalogue for the Singapore Art Show, National Arts Council, Singapore, 2005,
2005 A Conversation about 4 x 4, by John Low (and Ho Tzu Nyen), Catalogue for the Singapore Art Show, National Arts Council, Singapore, 2005,
2004 Ho Tzu Nyen, by Ahmad Mashadi, 26th Sao Paulo Bienal Catalogue, 2004
2004 'Exporting Local Culture ­ Singapore Takes New Measures to Market its Artists Overseas', by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Newsweek International, at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6257984/site/newsweek/
2004 New Media Art in Australia and Asia', by Russell Smith and Sarah Tutton, available on line at http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh17/2004
2004 'Five Entries', by Lee Weng Choy ­ Mesh #17, available on line at http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh17/2004 '
2004 Three Entries', by Lee Weng Choy, Broadsheet, Vol 33, No. 3
2004 Painting as Process ­ Re-evaluating Painting in Painting as Process, by Eugene Tan, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-College of the Arts, 2004
2004 'Three Artists Joins International Exhibitions' by Goh Kay Kee , Lianhe Zaobao, 6 Sept 2004
2004 'Going the Biennale Way', by Clara Chow, Life, 26 Aug 2004
2004 'Artists Take Singapore Overseas', by Yvonne Kwok, Streats, 25 Aug 2004
2004 '18 Ways of Looking at a Mall', Wow, Philippines, Online version at http://beta.inq7.net/lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=3147
2004 'SEA 'Mall Art' on Display' in The Malay Newspaper, Online version at http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug05/livi1.htm
2004 'Contemporary Art at the Podium' on The Manila Bulletin Online at http://www.mb.com.ph/SCTY2004073015262.html
2004 P.S.: Interrogation in progress this week, by Neo Chai Chin, in Life!, Straits Times, 14 June, 2004
2004 'Painting as Process', by Clarissa Oon, in Life!, Straits Times, 14 June, 2004
2004 'What Goes into a Painting', by Yong Shu Chiang, in Today, 10 June 2004
2004 'When He Pours He Paints', by Sharlene Tan, in Streats, 9 June 2004
2004 'History Paintings', by Michael Lee, in Vehicle, Magazine on Contemporary Art, (Upcoming)
2003 'Ho Tzu Nyen at the Substation Gallery, by Michael Lee, in Asian Art News, Vol 13, Number 6, Nov/Dec 2003
2003 'Fore/Mid/After ­ Words', by Audrey Wong in Berita Harian, limited edition, catalogue
2003 'Towards a Descriptive Cultural Meaning', by Zeng Zhao Cheng in Lianhe Zaobao, zbNOW, Sept 2003
2003 Utama, by Sian E.Jay in Today, 30 Aug 2003
2003 'Call of the Wild', by Rachel Farnay Jacques in Business Times, 30-31 Aug 2003
2003 'Shattering Boundaries', by Michelle Lim in World Sculpture News, Vol 9 N0 2 Spring 2003
2003 Ruffling Raffles, by Francis Lee, in Streats 26/08/2003
2003 Who is Sang Nila Utama? By Lim Jen Erh, in Lianhe Zaobao, zbNOW, 23/08/2003
2003 Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Ready to Step Out of the West's Shadow, Agence France-Presse, 2003, Arts and Literature News, available online at http://www.moremusic104.com/index.php?nid=122&sid=5408
2002 Sights: Notes on the Month of Photography in Singapore' by Lindy Poh, in Month of Photography in Singapore, An Event of the Singapore Arts Festival 2002.
2002 Review of The Cave, an Installation at the Singapore Art Museum, http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n06/text/ca_cave.html
2002 Not Child's Play-Seeking to Extend the Parameters of Art'' by Cheah Ui-Hoon in The Business Times, June 29-30, 2002.
2001 'Dancing on Jelly and Other Possibilities: Some Notes on Spaces in NSA01' by Lindy Poh, in Histories, Identities, Technologies, Spaces, Singapore Art Today, 2001
2001 Thee Nokia Arts Awards ­ Asia Pacific 2001, Eye on the World' in Histories, Identities, Technologies, Spaces, Singapore Art Today, 2001
1999 'Prized Philosopher Goes Live at the VCA', UniNEWS Vol 8, No 30