FACULTY TEAM

Sabrina Koh (Associate Dean, Fine Art) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is situated between the spatial, performative and textual, where she examines the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in society. Her professional interests in gendered leadership in the arts and education informs her redefinition and re-evaluation of contemporary pedagogy and relooks into the fluidity of curriculum design and mentorship in today’s learning environment. She works primarily with performances but also includes installation and writing. She founded the creative label sabkoh and co-founded dblspce, an integrated space and incubator dedicated to artistic practice that is based in Singapore, to catalyse dialogue through interdisciplinary engagement and exchanges.. She has performed and exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Thailand), Undisclosed Territory (Solo, Indonesia), Performer Stammtisch (Berlin, Germany), as well as Singapore Art Museum and Esplanade - Theatres by the Bay in Singapore. Her recent works were presented at OUTSIDER (Fashion Art Festival) and Artbox, as an extended outreach to the wider community. Alongside her practice and research, Sabrina is also engaged in pedagogic enquiry relating to curriculum development in her role as Associate Dean of Fine Art. As an established educator, coach and hybrid entrepreneur, aside from affiliated organisations, she works with young art and design graduates from Southeast Asian region to establish their individual personal and professional interests, creating entry points to reposition, shift, reflect and imagine new contexts for the society and world.

Noor Effendy Ibrahim (Senior Lecturer) is an interdisciplinary arts practitioner pursuing research as art-practice and having created interdisciplinary live performances since 1992. Effendy has been the Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra (2001-2006) and The Substation (2010-2015). Effendy received the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore Foundation Culture Award in 2007. He sat on the NAC Board (2004-2006) and participated in the NAC Cultural Fellowship programme in 2014. Effendy is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Besides performance art, he creates interdisciplinary theatre performances under the collective Very Shy Gurl by fendy.

Ye Shufang (Senior Lecturer) is an artist and educator. Her art practice explores materiality and the ephemeral, with a focus on installation and drawing. Shufang has held solo exhibitions at The Private Museum (Singapore 2016, 2013, 2011), Belgrade Cultural Centre (Serbia, 2004) and Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta, 2004). Her group exhibition credits include Medium At Large (Singapore, 2014), City-Net Asia (South Korea, 2007) and Feminine Imaginaire (Venice, 2002). In 2021, Shufang gave the keynote presentation at the International Symposium on Children’s Art Education (Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan). She spoke on art and museum education at the International Arts Education Week (Seoul, 2019) and Hands On! Conference (Frankfurt, 2019). Shufang served as Deputy Director, Education with National Gallery Singapore (2010 – 2021) where she headed the Keppel Centre for Art Education. Under her leadership, the Centre won the International Children in Museums Award 2018 for innovative art education, awarded by Hands On! International Association and European Museum Academy. Shufang previously served as Head, Visual Arts Faculty with School of the Arts, Singapore (2007 – 2010) and Programme Leader, BA and MA Studies with LASALLE College of the Arts (2002 – 2007).

Kimberly Shen (Programme Leader, Fine Art) is a curator and educator based in Singapore. Her practice research engages with feminist thinking and consciousness, and seeks to affirm the gendered gestures and vocabularies that transcend spaces and institutions of knowledge. She has presented her curatorial projects at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, ShanghART Gallery, amongst other spaces and platforms. She is co-founder of dblspce, an integrated studio and incubator dedicated to artistic practice.  She was awarded the IMPART Art Prize (Curator Category) in 2019. A recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate), she graduated with a Master of Research in Art: Theory and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL). She is currently a PhD candidate at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Koh Nguang How (Artist-in-Residence, 2022-23) is an artist and researcher. He worked as a curatorial assistant at the National Museum Art Gallery from 1985 to 1992. He has been associated with the Singaporean art collective The Artists Village since 1989 and has documented its key events from June 1988 to January 2022. He began exhibiting art archives in 1992 at Performance Week at Gallery 21, Singapore, notably in the exhibition ERRATA at p-10, Singapore in 2004. He initiated the Singapore Art Archive Project (SAAP) in 2005, and has since presented over fifteen thematic works and exhibitions of SAAP in Singapore and abroad. He lives and works in Singapore.

Kamiliah Bahdar (Artist-in-Residence, 2023-24) is an independent curator fresh from completing her Masters of Arts at Nanyang Technology University of Singapore, but already armed with a diverse portfolio of artisticendeavours and experiences to her name. After achieving her Bachelor of Arts with honours in 2011, Kamiliah joined Galerie Steph as Manager and Curator for three years, where she worked closely with both international modern art masters and emerging Asian artists alike. Since then, she also began delving into a mélange of writings, curator residencies and projects through the years. Her portfolio includes curating exhibitions for emerging and established Singaporean artists at local art institutions such as Gillman Barracks, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Gajah Gallery and the National Museum of Singapore; as well as overseas residencies with Ketemu Project Space in Indonesia and Casa Tres Patios in Colombia.