ADELINE KUEH
Born in Sarawak, Malaysia
Lives in Singapore
Curriculum vitae
Selected major exhibitions, workshops
2025
A Blade of Grass Behind the Ear, for Bones, stones, and calling the four elements, 3rd Edition of the Brent Biennial (Curated By Annie J. Kwan, A Metroland Cultures project), London, United Kingdom
The softness of moonlight and crickets, for Listening Biennial (Singapore), The Lab at LASALLE, Singapore, Sept 2025
Trade winds, promises and dreams in Whispers of the Invisible, Soorim Cube, Seoul Art Week, South Korea, Aug-Sept 2025
Roadside Beauties and Healing Remedies, Singapore Night Festival 2025: Island Nights, Projection Mapping at CHIJMES, Aug 2025, Singapore
1 x 1 x 1 (featuring Jan Balquin, Bea Camacho, Jon Chan, Lavender Chang, Adeline Kueh, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong), FOST Gallery, Singapore
From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking ‘home’ and ‘oddities’ (Penang Edition) by Critical Craft Collective (as lead curator, artist), Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia
Gathering: A Seminar on the Conditions of Independent Art Spaces and Initiatives, ArtHub Copenhagen, Denmark
From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking ‘home’ and ‘oddities’ by Critical Craft Collective (as lead curator, artist), Singapore Art Week 2025 at 125 Jalan Sultan, Singapore
2024
SOUP Restaged, Critical Craft Collective x Tenthaus, EX-SITU, Singapore Art Museum Residency Studios, lead curator, artist, Singapore
National Heritage Board: craft x design workshops, lead curator/programmer for Critical Craft Collective (Sept 2024 - ongoing)
Felt: Love, remedies & textures (A solo exhibition by Adeline Kueh), Art Outreach, Singapore
Fabric of time, EHL Hospitality Business School Singapore, Singapore
The Critical Craft Collective Lab: crafty?, Level 7, Gr!d, Singapore
The Critical Craft Collective Lab: After ‘One and Three Chairs’, Level 7, Gr!d, Singapore Art Week 2024, Singapore
Sama-sama: A Dinner with Little Social and Adeline Kueh, S.E.A. Focus, Singapore Art Week 2024, Singapore
The Fabulous Stories to Save the Green Planet, 2024 Cultural Olympics Exhibition Programme, Gangwon Cultural Heritage Exchange Exhibition, Gyeongpo Beach, South Korea
2023
SOUP (Critical Craft Collective), Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, Norway
The spectral faith of our minor flirtations, FOST Gallery, Singapore
Weaving time and space, Intersections Gallery, Asia NOW: Paris Asian Art Fair Oct 2023, France
air || air: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2023, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
Flex: circle square triangle, Intersections Gallery, FIND Design Fair Asia, Singapore Design Week 2023, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Sama-sama: Comfort is on the menu, Re-Connect/Centre/Converge: The Arts Festival by The Substation, Sept 2023, Singapore
Thinking About Abstraction, 39+ Art Space, Singapore
X O X (Two kisses and a hug), Singapore Night Festival, Singapore
threads: A Critical Craft Collective experiment (Draft #1 & Draft #2), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023: Eat. Secure. Sustain, CREATE, Singapore
STPI Gallery Showcase, S.E.A. Focus, Singapore Art Week 2023, Singapore
2022
Serumpun: Crafts across borders, Borneo Cultures Museum, Malaysia
ephemera: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award Exhibition, ICAS, Singapore
Between the covers of our daydreams, ICAS, Singapore
The senses, Gangneung Art Centre, Gangwon, South Korea
N O O N, for As you were (Public Art Trust, National Arts Council), Punggol Waterway Park, Singapore
What you don’t know, you won’t miss, SAW Dubai showcase, Singapore Pavilion, Dubai Expo 2022, United Arab Emirates
The Story of Calico, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Singapore
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to, you would cry too if it happened to you, The Projector, SAW2022, Singapore
Somewhere in Bedok blooms the blushing rouge of embroidered roses, 621Bedok Reservoir Rd, Singapore Art Week 2022, Singapore
2021
On Time: Adeline Kueh, Jason Lim, Ian Woo and Zul Mahmod, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Where do we draw the line? Workshop for SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible, Arts Letters Numbers in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia 2021 (the CityX Virtual Architecture Pavilion), Italy
Living Legacies, National Heritage Board-Plural Art Mag, Singapore HeritageFest 2021, Singapore
Never quite the same shade of Blue, A New Season of Care, Asia Art Activism, London
2020
Love in the Rounded Edges, Till-We-Meet-Again-IRL.world x World Wide Wontons food workshop, Asia Art Activism, London
Roadside Beauties, Encounters, BIOME at Singapore Tyler Print Institute’s Annual Fundraiser 2020
How to Desire Differently, Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore
Street of Hope II, National Arts Council, Singapore
2019
2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
The Senses: Breathe between Excess and Deficiency, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Word of Mouth Exhibition, Grau Projekt, Melbourne, Australia
Singapore Utopia, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
Word of Mouth Exhibition, Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale 2019, Italy
Culture Shaper Tribe Films: Passion Made Possible (fashion designer/consultant), Singapore Tourism Board, Singapore
2018
A Room to Eternity: KooNe’s Nature & Sound Experience (Lead Designer for AK+, with JVCKENWOOD), SingaPlural/Singapore Design Week 2018, National Design Centre, Singapore
Blindside (Solo showcase), Melbourne, Australia
A bird in the garden, a cat in the room (An exhibition by Adeline Kueh and Tetsuro Kano), Japan Creative Centre, Singapore
2016
Loco Local/Summer Forever for Hermes Singapore (Takashimaya, Scotts Square & Marina Bay Sands Windows), Singapore
Sun Ship, Arts, Letters & Numbers, New York, USA
2015
Umbra: An exhibition by Adeline Kueh and Betty Susiarjo, Objectifs: Centre of Photography & Film, Singapore
What it is about when it is about nothing, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
Waiting at a stopped clock, LATENT SPACES x Post-Museum x Studio Bibliothèque
Tanjong Pagar Railway Corridor Green Corridor Open Call, in collaboration with AK+, Singapore
Economy, Latent Spaces Exhibition, ArtStage Singapore, Singapore
Prudential Singapore Eye Exhibition, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2014
Limitless city: Abstraction, Materiality and Authenticity (As If), Kings, Melbourne, Australia
An Eminent Takeover (Urbanisme), Eminent Plaza, Singapore
2013
100% Linen (Edition 1), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2010
the button project (solo showcase), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2006
Gravity Zero (Winner of the Dubai International Financial Centre By-Invite Competition), in collaboration with CPG-Timothy Seow Studio, Singapore
Commissioned projects
2025
A Blade of Grass Behind the Ear, for Bones, stones, and calling the four elements, 3rd Edition of the Brent Biennial (Curated By Annie Jael Kwan, A Metroland Cultures project, UK)
Roadside Beauties and Healing Remedies, Singapore Night Festival 2025: Island Nights, Projection Mapping at CHIJMES, Aug 2025
2023
X O X (Two kisses and a hug), Singapore Night Festival, Singapore
2022
N O O N, for As you were (Public Art Trust, National Arts Council), Punggol Waterway Park, Singapore
2021
Living Legacies, National Heritage Board-Plural Art Mag, Singapore HeritageFest 2021, Singapore
2018
A Room to Eternity: KooNe’s Nature & Sound Experience (Lead Designer for AK+, with JVCKENWOOD), SingaPlural/Singapore Design Week 2018, National Design Centre, Singapore
2016
Loco Local and Summer Forever for Hermes Singapore (Takashimaya, Scotts Square & Marina Bay Sands Windows), Singapore
Curatorial projects
2025
From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking ‘home’ and ‘oddities’ (Penang Edition) by Critical Craft Collective (as lead curator, artist), Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia
Where do we draw the line? A conceptual drawing open studio and exhibition for The College of Fine Art, Kyung Hee University (South Korea) and McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE-UAS, Earl Lu Gallery, ICAS, Singapore
From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking ‘home’ and ‘oddities’ by Critical Craft Collective (as lead curator and artist), Singapore Art Week 2025 at 125 Jalan Sultan, Singapore
2024
Lineage: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award's 25th Anniversary Exhibition (co-curation with Ian Woo), ICAS, Singapore
SOUP Restaged (with Ebba Moi), Critical Craft Collective x Tenthaus, EX-SITU, Singapore Art Museum Residency Studios, Singapore
National Heritage Board: craft x design workshops, lead curator/programmer for Critical Craft Collective (Sept 2024 - ongoing)
2024
This is not a Monster: MA Fine Arts Graduation Showcase 2024 (co-curation with Ian Woo), ICAS, Singapore
The Critical Craft Collective Lab: crafty?, Level 7, Gr!d, Singapore
The Critical Craft Collective Lab: After ‘One and Three Chairs’, Level 7, Gr!d, Singapore Art Week 2024, Singapore
2023
SOUP (for Critical Craft Collective x Tenthaus Oslo), Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, Norway
Nine in the afternoon: MA Fine Arts Work-in-Progress Exhibition, ICAS, Singapore
air || air: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2023, ICAS, Singapore
senses: LASALLE Moving Image Series in Tides that bind: A gathering of senses, Think & Tink, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Rationale for fables: MA Fine Arts Graduation Showcase 2023, ICAS, Singapore
threads (Draft #1 & #2), ICAS, Singapore
2022
ephemera: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award Exhibition, ICAS, Singapore
Between the covers of our daydreams, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
The Story of Calico, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Singapore
2021
Strangers on an island: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award Special Edition, https://winstonohtravelogue.com/
2019
One More Folded Sunset: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, ICAS, Singapore
2018
What the stars are telling us: Winston Oh Travelogue Award Exhibition, ICAS, Singapore
2017
Wanderlust: Travelogue Award 2017, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, ICAS, Singapore
In The Garden Exhibition, Objectifs, Singapore
2015
Singapore Video Collection programme (MADE IN ASIA festival, a partner event of Singapour en France – le festival), Toulouse, France
2014
A dozen and then some (Open Studio) at Lavenda Health Spa, Eminent Plaza, Singapore
2013
100% Linen (Edition 1), Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
Selected panel/conference presentations, professional participations, residencies, workshops
2025
SG60 Singapore Architects Roundtable (panelist), Singapore Archifest 2025, Singapore
ouroboros: a conceptual drawing experimental workshop, Soorim Cube, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Gathering: A Seminar on the Conditions of Independent Art Spaces and Initiatives, ArtHub Copenhagen, Denmark
2024
Beyond Survival: Tactile Technologies and Tentacular Thinking in A Thriving Digital (panel contribution with Cissie Fu, Hazel Lim & Zarina Muhammad for LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore), Digitally Engaged Learning Conference, Singapore
SOUP Restaged, Critical Craft Collective x Tenthaus, EX-SITU, Singapore Art Museum Residency Studios, Singapore
2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow (EGF) with Ewha Womans University, South Korea
2023
Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst Flexible Residency (Sep-Nov 2023) and BEK International Symposium, “The Only Lasting Truth Is Change”
NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023: Eat. Secure. Sustain (conference & workshop), Gillman Barracks, Singapore
On Play, Experimentation and Failure, Playground: Tropical Lab Seminar, Singapore
2022
Craft in Conversation (for Unbecoming: Kelly Limerick), Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
Care, intimate labour and liminality: Drawing as Praxis Seminar for MFA Art & Humanities, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland
2021
Singapore Tyler Print Institute Visiting Artist Programme(VAP) Residency, Singapore
Presenter, 9th Danube Dialogues: International Conference Society and Art in a Forced Reality, with Ars Electronica 2021, Novi Sad, Belgrade/Linz, Austria
Where do we draw the line? Workshop for SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible, Arts Letters Numbers in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia 2021 (the CityX Virtual Architecture Pavilion), Italy
Learner’s License: An Artist-Educators Panel (in Conjunction with Georgette Chen: At Home in the World Exhibition), National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
Materialities of Care and Modes of Making, A New Season of Care, Asia Art Activism, London
2020
Politics and practices of care, Till-We-Meet-Again-IRL.world panel, Asia Art Activism, London
2015-2019
Visual Arts Development Association Singapore (VADA) Jury member for UNTAPPED, Singapore
Articles, interviews
On craft, the politics of care, and storytelling, an essay for the Annual Craft Exhibition organised by the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (Norske Kunsthåndverkere), Norway, Sep-Nov 2024 drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N_3M7z97kVXggBa0peCs-VXNYEMw_5i1?usp=sharing
Adeline Kueh: In Conversation with John Tung, for Felt: Love, Remedies and Textures (A solo exhibition by Adeline Kueh), Art Outreach, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 2024 drive.google.com/file/d/1iE3_6dT88Mzi24VJtKbB5bM9vy2p4-UC/view?usp=drive_link
Artist Interview, Felt: Love, Remedies and Textures by Adeline Kueh for Art Outreach, Singapore 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVCcvS4vN0
The Sun, The Moon and The Earth, alongside One (and the same), The Fabulous Stories to Save the Green Planet, 2024 Cultural Olympics Exhibition Programme, Gangwon Cultural Heritage Exchange Exhibition, Gyeongpo Beach, South Korea.
http://2024coep.kr/artist/sea-gallery/adeline-kueh/
Singapore Tyler Print Institute’s Visiting Artist Programme 2021, ‘On time’ with Adeline Kueh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxJYMgad6g
Roadside Beauties and other tales of healing, National Heritage Board’s Singapore HeritageFest 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaMFge_ar1g & https://livinglegacies.pluralartmag.com/2021/adeline/#8
3 of my projects mentioned for the top 12 shows to not miss (out of the 130 SAW 2022 events)
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/singapore-art-week-2022-so-much-to-see-too-little-time?fbclid=IwAR2-F4kULUzACiK9iuoZYMvj7GH4DLOzxyYZPTaEKp6nW_DR_atlTHMmf3o
Roadside Beauties and other tales of healing, National Heritage Board’s Singapore HeritageFest 2021
https://livinglegacies.pluralartmag.com/adeline/
Straits Times pick: 3 of my projects mentioned for the top 12 shows to not miss (out of the 130 SAW 2022 events)
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/singapore-art-week-2022-so-much-to-see-too-little-time?fbclid=IwAR2-F4kULUzACiK9iuoZYMvj7GH4DLOzxyYZPTaEKp6nW_DR_atlTHMmf3o
Lianhe Zaobao coverage of The Critical Craft Collective & the push towards the Craft Council of Singapore (联合早報 Zaobao: 棉里藏针也埋史 白棉布的故事展 by 黄向京, 16 Jan 2022)
https://www.zaobao.com.sg/lifestyle/design-decor/story20220116-1233447
The Story of Calico video walkthrough
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jwu9teJRA3SvAWQK5UZFB3u_MnPH3fTv?usp=sharing
Singapore Art Week Dubai 2022, Singapore Pavilion, UAE
https://www.artweek.sg/saw-in-dubai?fbclid=IwAR2w7RNHx4xiBbmMwMbvsZh_BP7278l6UnwbsiYyJz37Fn1jvhbl_buWOlA
A Stitch in Time, Tatler Magazine Singapore, Mar 2022 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CbAZY3B9_LvLeqJpvPiUrnh33X_Jfe4v
Word of Mouth Exhibition, Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale 2019, Italy
https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/dancing-girls-and-fake-news-in-secret-places
The Scent of a Virgin's Navel, by Peter Hill in Museum (Issue 5: Noses), Sept 2016
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qspe9m_eFeYBUWRTYN_zJA2c1ckA4djv?usp=sharing
On my Felt work, Singapore Utopia, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore, 2021
https://pluralartmag.com/2019/08/09/imagine-nation/
The Singapore Series (Chapter 30), An interview with Naima Morelli, May 2019
https://www.naimamorelli.com/category/country/singapore-country/page/2/
On curated exhibition, In the garden, Objectifs Singapore
https://www.dodooba.com/guide_details.php?ref_id=3901&feature_type=0
What it is about when it is about nothing exhibition, Mizuma Gallery, Nov 2015
https://coconuts.co/singapore/lifestyle/art-week-adeline-kueh/
En Passant, Prudential Singapore Eye, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2015
https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibition-archive/prudential-singapore-eye.html
http://ocula.com/art-exhibitions/mizuma-singapore/what-it-is-about-when-it-is-about-nothing/
http://www.timeout.com/singapore/art/what-it-is-about-when-it-is-about-nothing
http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1239754/top-5-shows-to-see-for-gillman-barracks-3rd-anniversary
http://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/prudential-singapore-eye.html
http://www.lifestyleasia.com/sg/en/culture/art/photo-story/art-city-5-exhibitions-miss-january/#4
http://is.asia-city.com/events/singapore-art/prudential-singapore-eye
http://www.timeout.com/singapore/art/prudential-eye-singapore
http://www.yoursingapore.com/editorials/whats-happening-in-singapore.html
http://brooklynrail.org/2015/04/artseen/letter-from-singapore
"What it is about when it is about nothing" by Bruce Quek, Ran Dian Issue 2, Winter 2015, 154-157.
Button-Holed, Life! Section, The Straits Times, Singapore - 28 Jan 2010
Lessons Through a Button(-Hole): Reflections on The Button Project, essay written by Lawrence Chin, Singapore https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3sRSQmmWkAhM-7FuMz4lUMv8QXMVe9k/view?usp=sharing
Pontianak and her sisters, The Substation's Sept Fest 2016 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWde8pDh-tM