CLASS OF 2026
Bong Chai Lee is a Singapore-based visual artist working with textiles, ceramics, and found material. Through such mediums, she creates installations about memory, family, womanhood, and inherited expectations. She has received awards including the Silver Prize in the Emerging Artist category at the 42nd UOB Painting of the Year and a Consolation Prize in the Eye of the Naturalist Illustration Contest. She has held residencies at JurongHealth Campus and Studio Plesungan (Indonesia), and exhibited at institutions such as NAFA galleries, University of the Arts London, National Gallery Singapore, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, and the Singapore Science Centre. Prior to her artistic pursuits, Chai Lee was trained in graphic design.
Chan Yin Yew is a multimedia artist-in-progress based in Singapore, whose practice emerges from a confrontation with nihilistic thought and the existential tension between individuality and collective existence. In response, their works examine the intersections of identity, absurdism, mental health, spectatorship, and social psychology, tracing how these concepts shape our perception of being. This exploration manifests across diverse media, including painting, video, illustration, animation, and installation.
Cherish Tong is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore who is drawn to the creative arts and the power of visual expression. Her artworks are an exploration of the connection between the physical and the spiritual world, as well as the relationship between the natural and the man-made. Inspired by nature, she seeks to capture the essence of the natural world that celebrates the enduring power of nature to inspire, heal, and transform. She strives to create works inviting others to pause and immerse in the wonders of nature that are colourful, meaningful, and thought-provoking.
She investigates indexicality as both trace and tactic, drawing on the existential proposition that existence precedes essence. Through the dissection and reconstruction of flora, her work treats plant matter as evidence once living and once whole, reconfigured to suggest new meanings without erasing its origin. Each fragment operates as an index: a physical imprint of contact, time, and intervention. The process deliberately courts deception, convincing the viewer’s perception of coherence while quietly exposing its fabrication.
Chua Jia Xin Sarah is a Singapore-based multidisciplinary performance artist. Her practice is rooted in performance, with works presented across Singapore and London, including at UAL Chelsea and the Singapore Art Book Fair. She has also participated in artist talks as a panelist, contributing to critical conversations surrounding contemporary art practices.
In addition to her artistic practice, she is part of the curatorial team for her graduating cohort (2025–2026), supporting the development and presentation of collective exhibitions. She previously earned a Diploma in Art Teaching from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, informing her engagement with pedagogy alongside her artistic work.
Ella Ong Liqing is a multidisciplinary artist interested in cognition and communication. Her work develops speculative frameworks that examine how meaning is formed and conveyed. Ella has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art, with works focusing on diagrammatic and system-based approaches to visualising internal processes.
Ella has exhibited in London at the Morgue (UAL) and in Singapore at the Selegie Arts Centre. Her works were featured in Singapore Art Book Fair 2025 at Whitestone Gallery.
Erica Jocelyn Suwandi is a young, multidisciplinary artist currently based in Singapore. She experiments with the materiality of textile to not only explore her identity as a Chinese Indonesian, but also to unearth the buried histories in Indonesia. She has participated in several exhibitions, including Menagerie at The Photographic Society of Singapore, Singapore, Stories of Care (Cycle #4): Everything in Between at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, done in partnership with Assisi Hospice Singapore, and NAFA x UAL Student Exhibition at Chelsea College of the Arts, London.
Her most recent work transcends the materiality of textile, taking away its fluidity to act as corporeal archives, embodying the historical violence in Indonesia while giving agency to vernacular voices.
Fiona Amanda Putri Binte Herman Yadi is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores self-identity and the Malay culture through performance film and textile. Grounded in storytelling, her work seeks to preserve and honour traditional practices by engaging with materiality, memory, and embodied performance. By bridging ancestral knowledge with contemporary expression, Fiona investigates how cultural continuity shapes personal and collective understandings of heritage in today’s society.
Fiona has exhibited in both Singapore and London, including Menagerie at the Photographic Society Singapore, From Nowhere at The Morgue in UAL Chelsea, and Flagship Genius Featuring Văn Miếu-Quốc Tử Giám at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Gavin Lee Rui Heng is a visual artist based in Singapore whose work revels in the speculative narrative through new media.
He was recently part of Funan's Creative Intersections 2026 under Vertsub, showcasing his original animation "Horse Shtick" at Funan Mall's kinetic wall. In 2025 he designed and painted a mural for Tampines Hub's Festive Arts Initiative SG60 titled “Da hub of Tamp”.
He has worked with clients such as MTV Asia and Light To Night Singapore, of which his team attained Finalist for the Crowbar Award in Art Direction.
Exhibiting across Singapore and the UK such as ”Downsizing: Interbeing” in Lim Hak Tai Gallery and in places such as the Fluxus Gallery, SIngapore Art Book Fair, The Cookhouse Gallery and Triangle space at UAL-Chelsea ,Safehouse 2 in London and Selegie Arts Center.
Gavin is also a part of the NAFA Talent Development Program, and holds a diploma in Motion Graphics and Broadcast design from Nanyang Polytechnic.
Hannah Binte Mohammad Alf @ Hannah Dale is a Singapore-based artist working across installation, sculpture, and biomaterial-based processes. Her practice examines the body as a relational system shaped by flesh, blood, and lived experience, using cultivated and recycled materials to explore how identity is formed through processes of growth, care, deterioration, and generational relations. Her works often emerge through durational cultivation, moulding, and layering, where materials are allowed to transform over time, reflecting the fragile and negotiated relationship between the body, biological matter, and care.
Alongside her studio practice, she has been actively involved in curatorial projects, serving as Lead Curator for several exhibitions including DOWNSIZING: Interbeing (NAFA Open House Showcase, 2026), Stories of Care (Cycle #4): Everything in Between (2025), and Echoes Echoes Echoes (2025). She was also part of the curatorial teams for In:Construction Art Show (2024) and Venture Boldly: The Grad Expectations 2024 at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries.
Her work and projects have been presented through platforms such as Art Outreach and collaborations with Off Limits. Beyond her artistic practice, Dale has professional experience in arts education and cultural institutions. She has worked for five years as a pottery instructor at The 8th Floor and has undertaken internships with the National Arts Council and The Singapore Mint.
Jennifer Ivana Sanjaya is an Indonesian artist based in Singapore who enjoys creating illustrations, drawings, and mixed media installations, and has participated in art contests during her studies. Jennifer's work has been showcased in several exhibitions, including Downsizing: Interbeing at Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore, UAL x NAFA Exhibition at Chelsea College of Art, London, Stories of Care (Cycle #4): Everything In Between at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and The Grad Expectations at Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery, Singapore.
Lim Soo Min is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator working across installation, performance, and visual art. Her practice explores movement, materiality, and spatial experience, informed by her background in freestyle dance and digital media. She holds a Diploma in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics from Singapore Polytechnic and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In 2018, she received the Gold Award at the Crowbar Awards (Film & Photography: Animation) and was nominated for Best Art Direction at the National Youth Film Awards. Her work engages embodied experience, emotional memory, and feminist narratives.
Lim Xin Yi is a multidisciplinary artist who finds ways to express and participate in the art community. She developed her artistic skills at a young age with a background in Diploma in Fine Art from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She has interned and worked at Gallery1819 and LivingWithArt from 2024 to 2025. Through there she attended art fairs, organized events, and ocasionally taught children’s arts and crafts. In 2024, she volunteered as a student ambassador for the University of the Arts Singapore Open House. She had interned at 3pumpkins for 3 months where she participated and served as a community worker for underprivileged children.
Xin Yi has collaborated with peers on the CTPL X NAFA project in 2023, commissioning a 24 x 1-meter mural for the National Library Board. She focuses on creative and community-based initiatives. She is committed to fostering connections within the art world while continuing to develop connections that inspire her artistic practice.
Maryam Binte Tayeb is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, photography, and text. Her practice investigates the construction of the self through acts of observation, relationality, and embodied experience. Drawing from psychoanalytic thought and personal memory, her works often position the artist’s body as both subject and medium, exploring how identity is shaped, mediated, and perceived through the eyes of societal systems.
Maryam has undertaken an artist residency at Studio Plesungan under the mentorship of Melati Suryodarmo, where she further developed her performance-based research. In the same year, she participated in an overseas exchange programme with University of the Arts London (UAL), expanding her practice through international dialogue and critical exchange.
Meg Adrianne Alcano Severino is a Filipina artist and writer spanning digital media, moving image, text, installation, and research-based practices. Her work explores world-making, dream sequences and the emotional residue of systems, particularly those surrounding migration, faith, identity, and technology.
She exhibited in London at Cookhouse Gallery (UAL) and Safehouse 2, and in Singapore at The Arts House, Fluxus House Gallery and Selegie Arts Centre. Additionally, her works were featured in Singapore Art Book Fair 2025 at Whitestone Gallery.
Outside of exhibitions, Meg has curated Reflections of a Shared Journey for Galerie Belvedere Singapore, participated in Liu Bolin’s Hiding in Singapore (2025), and was Artist-in-Residence for the JurongHealth Arts&Health Programme.
Megan Renee Lim is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore whose practice ranges installation, photography and film.
Megan has exhibited her works for “EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN” and “ECHOES ECHOES ECHOES” as well as “The Grad Expectations 2024”.
She was selected to intern at National Gallery Singapore under the Learning and Outreach Team, where she created tour programmes and had the opportunity to work on an art cart activity for the exhibition “SEE ME SEE YOU”.
Her most recent solo works are “Dissection Butchery”, “Normal Person, Normal Day” and “Dermis Cell”.
Namrata Suthahar experiments with mediums ranging from oil and Chinese ink paintings, to contemporary video works. In themes of identity, culture, race, and society, she touches on deep-rooted issues that is often overlooked from daily life and presents them with a touch of humour and wit. Namrata has exhibited some of her best selected works at the NAFA Talent Development Programme in 2023. The artist also does commission works of her self-taught intricate embroideries which was showcased at Art on Wheels in 2026.
Neo Jing Yi, Sabrina is a Singapore-based artist. Her practice includes drawing, printmaking, photography, and installation. Her practice explores themes of mental health, emotional memory, and the body’s response to psychological tension. With focus on subtlety and self-reflexivity, she tends to engage with repetition, layering, and physical labor as modes of self-expression.
Sabrina is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), majoring in Printmaking and Drawing. She has presented her work at the Korean Competition (2021), Selegie Arts Centre and NAFA OpenHouse (2023), In:Construction (2024), and The Grad Expectations (2024): Venture Boldly at Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery II.She collaborated with the Victoria College of the Arts on A Catalyst for Victory, a cross-institutional project exploring speculative futures and urban transformation (2023).
Nidhi Hemant Dave is an interdisciplinary artist based in Singapore and Dubai. Indian-born but raised in Dubai, her works tackles issues surrounding the Indian diaspora through an intersectional lens. She sees the potential in ceramics for contemporary narratives but she also dabbles with performative/collaborative work to aid in making both meaningful connections and bodies of work. Her conceptual preoccupations are fuelled by her curiosity of land politics, using the medium of ceramics as a way to speak on the human body, migration, trauma and femininity. She is a recipient of the Liu Shiming Merit Award and most recently has exhibited her ceramic works at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. She has also exhibited her works as part of an Artist in Residency for ARTS ITOYA, Saga, Japan.
Nogaja Medha Vijaykumar is a mixed-media artist based in Singapore. Her practice explores self-identity through experimental approaches across 2D to 4D mediums.
Medha has exhibited at NAFA x UAL (2025), Stories of Care: Everything In Between (2024), Echoes Echoes Echoes (2024), BAFA Open Studio (2023), TEDx UWCSEA (2022), and the Combined Singapore International Schools’ Visual Arts Exhibition hosted by the Australian High Commission (2021).
Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked in education, ceramics, and creative industries, and currently serves as a social media manager and content creator for Kohra Studio & Podsque. She aims to establish a multidisciplinary art studio in India focused on community-driven creative exchange.
She is currently building her own online retail art store, The Tyra Studio.
Noor Syafiqah Binte Mohammed Faizal aka[BOBBLES | BRONZ] is an interdisciplinary artist based in Singapore.
Shaped by growing up with her sister with special needs, her practice explores care, adaptability, and how different bodies experience shared spaces. Influenced by the graffiti scene, her practice is multifaceted, encompassing a diverse range of mediums. She explores how street art intersects with contemporary practices, using nature as her main medium.
Syafiqah demonstrates her commitment to the community through her internship at the Down Syndrome Association (Singapore), where she supported inclusivity and development projects. She has also developed Mindful Crafting with Holding Ground, a workshop for mothers and did her artist residency with JurongHealth Campus.
She holds a Diploma in Art in Teaching and has exhibited in Singapore, Melbourne, and London. Leveraging her leadership skills, she served as a Student Ambassador and Leader for NAFA from 2022 to 2025 and took on key roles in student initiatives. She has also honed her curatorial skills by curating exhibitions for the BAFA Year 2 and Year 3 in the publicity team.
Nur Laila Binte Mohammad Razib is a Singapore-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, lens-based art (film and photography), and painting. Her research explores the experiences of womanhood within the Malay-Muslim community.
Her work has been featured in the NAFA BAFA Open House (2024, 2026) and screened in Downsizing: Interbeing. In 2025, Laila presented performance works in both London and Singapore, including an exhibition at the Morgue, UAL Chelsea. Her work has also been exhibited in Beras Basah (Wet Rice) as part of the Singapore Night Festival 2024, and in Menagerie: Realms of Possibility at the Photographic Society of Singapore.
Alongside her individual practice, Laila actively engages in collaborative projects. She has contributed to initiatives by the Women Of:__ Collective and the Pe(ng)lipur Lara Collective, working collectively to explore themes of care, storytelling, and feminine experience.
Previously, she graduated from Republic Polytechnic’s Diploma in Media Production and Design with a Module Prize in Interactive Media and Content Development.
Nuriman Putra Bin Zainal is a Singapore-based artist predominantly working with photography, film, and sculpture. His constant fascination with Romanticism enables him to engage in projects that explore overlooked occurrences in everyday movements and unfamiliar aspects of routine gestures. Through assemblages, these instances become apparent from the vantage point of his own embodied perception, forming an inquiry into post-truth politics and dominant knowledge systems.
He has exhibited locally and internationally. His most recent was a group show, Downsizing: Interbeing at the Lim Hak Tai Gallery, 2026.
Nurul Atiqah Binte Zaidi is a Singaporean interdisciplinary performance artist whose movement practice emerges from embodied research.
Atiqah has presented works, facilitated programmes, and performed across Singapore, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom, including at NUS Museum, Objectifs Centre for Photography & Film, Art Outreach Singapore, Studio Plesungan, P7:1SMA, Dance Nucleus, Singapore Art Book Fest at the Whitestone Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts in London, as well as designing costumes for the National Arts Council’s Our SG Arts Plan Launch (2023). In 2025, her work was also examined in a catalogue essay for the 'Post Script: Jemput…Tengok' programme published by NUS Museum.
Graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Singapore), Atiqah is part of the Talent Development Programme, a multiple Dean’s List recipient, and served as Lead Curator of her graduating cohort from 2025–2026. She also holds a Diploma in Art Teaching from the same institution.
Her work has been featured in Her World Singapore, including the print feature Life Imitates Art (October 2025) and the online article Turning Life into Art: How Nurul Atiqah Zaidi Uses Oil and Courage to Break Boundaries (January 2026).
Nurul Fasihah Binte Sarjono is a Singaporean ceramic sculptor whose practice explores existentialism through themes of identity, displacement, and care. Working primarily with clay, she approaches art-making as a form of contemporary archaeology—handling, collecting, and recontextualising materials to examine memory, belonging, and the traces left behind in everyday, in-between spaces. Her work emphasises materiality, touch, and process, positioning clay as both fragile and enduring.
Fasihah has participated in exhibitions and art events including the Independent Archive LELONG LELONG Fundraiser (2022), NAFA x SBS Transit’s 20th Anniversary Railway Operations Artwork (2023), Flagship Genius Exhibition, Shoebox Sculpture Biennale, and Re:Count-1 Live Project Showcase (2023). She currently works as a studio assistant to renowned ceramicist Delia Prvacki, contributing to projects including Continuity, Persistence, Line at the NUS Museum.
Pabustan Caitlyn Keith Sarmiento is an artist who explores the monotony and mundanity of everyday life. Her practice navigates perspectives of the everyday---how things are perceived and felt about depending on the setting and context. She translates perceptive data into paintings and animations which showcase the prolonged timeline of experiencing different everydays when in a change of space.
Ong Suk Chin is a Chinese Malaysian artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, ceramics and textiles. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. Her work has been showcased in several exhibitions, including “Downsizing: Interbeing” at Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore, “Kecik-kecik group show 2025” at Hin Bus Depot, Penang, “NAFA x UAL exhibition” at The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. “Drawing Etc. Year-End Exhibition 2nd Edition” at Drawing Etc. Creative Space, Singapore, “Stories of Care (CYCLE #4): Everything in Between” at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, and “Menagerie – Realms of Possibility” at the Loke Wan Tho Gallery.
Stefan Alvin Perera is a multi-faceted artist specialising in mixed media and performing arts with a fascination for eccentric expression and the exploration of witchcraft through spirituality and queerness.
Stefan’s inspiration is derived from personal experiences and reflections of growing up as a queer kid in Singapore and the hardships he endured to fit in. Escaping into the world of art seeking self expression, identity and self worth as a way to ground himself and take back his individuality in the narratives he creates through his works.
Working part-time as a florist, production assistant and junior art assistant in the film industry has had a big impact in Stefan’s personal identity and creative process. Influencing his most recent pieces if art and ongoing works and collaborations.
He has exhibited his works locally and in the UK, in places such as Singapore Art Book Fair, Selegie Arts Center and The Cookhouse Gallery & Triangle space at UAL-Chelsea College of The Arts. With his most recent work showcased in 'Downsizing: Interbeing' at the Lim Hak Tai Gallery 2026.
Sun Xinyue believes that art should always evolve, push boundaries, embrace challenges, and allow new aspects to be discovered within oneself through creative exploration.
Her practice centers on her personal experiences, encompassing her transient living situation. Through various artistic forms, she tries to understand the impact of memories in life.
Tan Yew Wai is an artist and printmaker whose practice explores relationships between human presence and aquatic life within Singapore’s freshwater environments. Through field research, underwater documentation and experimental printmaking, he examines how natural and manmade ecologies intertwine, revealing fragile systems of adaptation and coexistence. Working across materials such as aluminum and laser-cut plywood, Tan often reflects on the ethics of ornamental fishkeeping and aesthetic-driven human intervention. His works have been exhibited internationally in Germany, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, including selections for the 8th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland (Romania) and the 4th ASEAN Graphic Art Competition and Exhibition (Vietnam).
Tang Tian Li works primarily with charcoal and oil as his main mediums. His practice often features striking charcoal portraits alongside intricate landscape paintings. Through his independent art practice, he explores existential questions about the world, seeking to reflect on human tragedy and the complexities of the human condition.
Originally trained in Pharmaceutical Science, Tian Li believes that the intersection of science and art can serve as a powerful catalyst for positive change. By combining the analytical thinking of science with the expressive potential of art, he envisions a meaningful synergy that encourages reflection, fosters dialogue, and contributes to a deeper pursuit of peace.
Tiffany Wee Wen Jing is an interdisciplinary artist based in Singapore. She is completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts conferred by University of the Arts London. Collaborating with the creative agency, Celosiafields, she worked on the set design and production for ‘Tatsuya and Moog’. The film was shortlisted as a finalist for the Catchlight Film Festival presented by Sony in 2023, and was highly commended in the Northern Beaches 2023 Environmental Art & Design Prize with exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney. She has also exhibited namely at the NAFA x UAL Final Exhibition, Cookhouse Gallery, London (2025) and the Flagship Genius Featuring Ayutthaya IV exhibition, Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries, Singapore (2023).
Wan Wen Ting is a feminist artist based in Singapore who, through her work, explores the voices and lived experiences of young women, especially their relationships with family, intergenerational dynamics, and the shaping forces of identity, trauma and social expectations. Drawing from both personal memory and shared narratives, she challenges conventional representations of women by foregrounding complexity, vulnerability and contradiction through her paintings, sculptures and installations.
Wen Ting’s works has been exhibited in several exhibitions including “Downsizing: Interbeing”, “Everything In Between”, “Echoes Echoes Echoes” and “The Grad Expectations 2024”.
Wang Simin, Chloe explores the concept of home and belonging and place through the lens of psychogeography and everyday spaces in Singapore.
Drawn to the quiet poetry of Singapore’s overlooked architecture and everyday objects, Chloe maps and reimagine these spaces and structures, breathing life into unnoticed quiet corners of the city by weaving found objects with a touch of gentle poetic gestures. Her practice brings attention to the unnoticed corners of the city, uncovering hidden narratives and inviting new ways of seeing into what often goes unnoticed.
She is also the co-founder of Beanzine, a homegrown arts collective and bookshop that creates a communal arts space for zine-making, collaboration, and creative exchange.
Yoon Seyeol is a visual artist from South Korea based in Singapore. His practice explores negative space and fleeting moments through painting and drawing.
Inspired by personal surroundings and lived experiences, he translates subtle emotions and atmospheres into works that emphasise delicacy, colour, and quiet contemplation. His works often invite viewers into reflective spaces, suggesting that art can be a place for those searching for belonging.
Seyeol’s work has been exhibited in Downsizing: Interbeing at Lim Hak Tai Gallery and the NAFA–UAL exhibition at The Morgue, Chelsea College of the Arts, London.