I think about spatial value, the
value of other people, the value
of people working together.
ABOUT
anGie seah (b. 1979) is a Singaporean artist whose multi-disciplinary practices span drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, and video to respond to the human condition in relation to evolving social environments. Her penchant for immersive community-making flows from the ease with which she engages across different demographics, especially to give voice to and shape space for the vulnerable and the misunderstood, thus marking her art-making as a distinctive and distinguished exemplar of social practice in Southeast Asia and beyond. anGie’s sustained artistic research, by articulating valences of emotional labour through choreographic language, earned her various accolades at home and abroad over the past two decades.
anGie seah (b. 1979) is a Singaporean artist whose multi-disciplinary practices span drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, and video to respond to the human condition in relation to evolving social environments. Her penchant for immersive community-making flows from the ease with which she engages across different demographics, especially to give voice to and shape space for the vulnerable and the misunderstood, thus marking her art-making as a distinctive and distinguished exemplar of social practice in Southeast Asia and beyond. anGie’s sustained artistic research, by articulating valences of emotional labour through choreographic language, earned her various accolades at home and abroad over the past two decades.
From the National Arts Council of Singapore Scholarship that enabled her studies in fine arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000 to the Atlantic Fellowship that brings her to Trinity College Dublin in 2025-2026 to explore equity in brain health, anGie continues to conceive and create projects that connect and compel people towards communal understanding through personal transformation.
Beyond an impressive record of international exhibitions, artist residencies, and festival presentations in Australia (Asialink / VCA), France (Palais de Tokyo, MAC Lyon, CITE Des Arts), Germany (ZKM Centre for New Media, Goethe Institute Berlin), and Japan (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum), anGie’s heart and hands hold a special place for Singapore: as founder, composer, and vocalist of experimental music ensemble Qianpima since 2015, as director-curator of Islands Time-Based Art Festival since 2022, and most recently as initiator and artist of a certain kind of courage in 2025, her multi-faceted activation of and tribute to Guan Huat Dragon Kiln, one of Asia’s longest standing and few remaining traditional kilns.
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