Vincent Leow (b. 1961)

Vincent Leow (b. 1961, Singapore) has been teaching at the School of the Arts, Singapore since 2013. Leow received his Diploma in Fine Art, Sculpture from LASALLE, College of the Arts in 1987 and his Master of Fine Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA in 1991. In 2005, Leow attained his Doctorate of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Leow consistently questions and pushes the boundaries of the roles of artists, and develops his perspectives through various media, ranging from painting, drawings, sculpture, installation, printmaking, conceptual and performance art.

Leow has participated in numerous exhibitions in Singapore and the region. For his contribution to the arts, Leow was awarded the Culture Award by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore in 2002 and Singapore’s Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2020 by the National Arts Council.

Leow’s works are also in the collections of National Gallery Singapore, NUS Museum – National University of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Deutsche Bank Singapore, National Arts Council, Singapore, National Institute of Education, Singapore, Fukuoka Art Museum and in other private collections.

Education

2005 | DFA, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
1991 | MFA, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MA, USA
1987 | Diploma Fine Art, Sculpture (Merit), LASALLE, College of the Arts, Singapore
1979 | NTC grade 3 Architectural Drafting, Punggol Vocational Institute, Singapore

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 | ON/OFF, Esplanade, Singapore
2019 | Passing, iPreciation, Singapore
2018 | BLANK, Esplanade, Singapore
2015 | For Those Who Have Been Killed, VADA, Visual Art Development Assoc. of Singapore, Shophouse 5, Singapore
2012 | Resembling Imaginary Creatures, 2012, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
2010 | Rhapsody of Non-sense, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum “Tags and Treats” , Singapore
2010 | SooBin Art International Singapore “Rhapsody of Non-sense”, Singapore

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 | From Rochor to Kallang, Children’s Biennale, National Gallery of Singapore
2015 | No Boundary: An Exhibition Featuring Singaporean Artists, Shanghart, Singapore
2012 | “Not Against Interpretation: Re-staging Jason Lim & Vincent Leow’s A Flog of Birdies in the 21st Century”, Singapore Art Museum
2007 | 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, Singapore Pavilion, Italy
2007 | “Domesticity” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2007 | 3rd GuiYang Biennale of Contemporary Art, Guiyang, China
2005 | “WORLD EXPO 2005” Singapore pavilion, Nagoya, Japan
2005 | “Contemporary Self-Portraiture/Reassessing Identity”, ICAS, Singapore
2004 | 11th Asian Art Biennale, Osmani Memorial Hall, Bangladesh
2003 | RENGA Paintings, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2002 | “P.A.U.S.E” Gwangju Biennale, Korea
2002 | “NOKIA Singapore Art” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2002 | “ParallelWORLD”, Project 304 Bangkok, Thailand
2002 | “Feast” group exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore