Artist-in-Residence (A.i.R)
Next Open Call
August 2026
Current Residency
About
Each residency cycle hosts 2 to 3 artists, fostering meaningful exchange, collaboration, and the development of creative networks both locally and beyond.
The Open Call for Artist-in-Residency only opens twice a year.
The duration of Residency will span from 3 to 8 weeks.
Eligibility
This opportunity is open to both local and international artists who demonstrate a committed practice and a desire to engage with the community through artistic exploration.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Age: 21 years and above
- Experience: Minimum of 3 years of active practice in the arts
- Discipline: Must be working primarily in photography or image-based arts
Programme Provisions & Terms of Exchange
Accommodation (for overseas professionals only):
- A private bedroom of your own with access to shared facilities, including a kitchen and laundry room.
Space Provision:
- Access to either a gallery space for exhibitions or a multipurpose room for public programmes and activities.
- Usage duration: 1 to 8 weeks, depending on the nature of the project.
Project Support:
- Up to SGD $1,000 in travel funding available.
- Up to SGD $2,000 for costs related to exhibition production or public programming.
- A stipend of up to SGD $50/day will be provided to support residency participation.
What We Offer:
- Public announcement of your participation on DECK’s social media platforms and printed collaterals
- Interview, filming, and documentation support by DECK
- Provision of an official letter of invitation and a reference letter to support your grant application in your home country
What You Offer:
- Facilitation of a workshop, lecture, or any community engagement programme
- Donation of one artwork of your choice to support our fundraising efforts and sustain the residency programme
- Contribution of a small personal keepsake (written piece or small object, max 5cm x 5cm) to be part of our residency archive at Shop–House by DECK
Browse Gallery
Featuring
Phuong Le
Artist
In 2023, Phương was the recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Awards (Singapore) and Tall Poppy Press Publishing Prize (Australia), resulted in a debut monograph and solo exhibition for his body of work Sunshine. Phương has exhibited at Studio 3năm and Photo Hanoi Biennale (Vietnam), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (Singapore), Jakarta International Photography Festival (Indonesia), Angkor Photo Festival (Cambodia), Photo Elyseé (Switzerland), and Museum of Australian Photography (Australia).
Chen Chuanduan
Artist
Chen Qiheng
Artist
Since 2020, Chen has explored the intersections of plants, identity, gender, and culture through the motif of the orchid. Drawing on personal and familial experiences, his research examines the psychological tensions of individuals within traditional family structures, while engaging with ecological reflections on the “nature/human” binary.
His recent work focuses on the Chinese orchid as a point of entry, revisiting the aesthetics of the junzi (gentleman/君子) and gender dynamics in traditional Chinese culture. He initiated the Orchid Pavilion project (蘭亭無序), aiming to reconstruct the connections between orchids, everyday life, and culture through re-interpretation and community-based learning, and continues to explore possibilities of identity fluidity and symbiosis through the practice of “becoming an orchid.”
Teo Shi Yun
Artist
Shi Yun is reclaiming her heritage and culture through documentations and conversations with questions of identity and diaspora in relation to Singapore’s rapid growth. Through family history and local mythology, she investigate fragmented belonging and explore tensions between reality and dream, memory and delusion.
Her video works have shown at selected film festivals and art exhibitions including her first solo show at Feelium Gallery, London UK, 2024, IFFR, Rotterdam, 2025, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, 2025, National Gallery Singapore, 2025, NOWNESS Asia, Hong Kong, 2024, Erratum Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2024, Ormside Projects, London, UK, 2024, Photobook Cafe, London, UK, 2024, Slade BA/BFA Degree Show 2023 and archived at Asian Film Archive.
Adar Ng
Artist
Alvin Ng
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
Working between reality and fantasy, Alvin creates images that draw on celestial lore, mythology, and the quiet magic of everyday life. Through hand-manipulation and re-photography, his practice invites viewers to step into a realm of wonder, where the everyday becomes otherworldly. His work has been exhibited and published internationally, including at the Royal Geographical Society as part of Earth Photo 2025, and recognised by LensCulture Critics’ Awards (Top 10, 2022) and the Foam Talent Call (longlist, 2023).
Camilla Marrese
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
Camilla’s artistic practice aims for the visual articulation and expression of complex issues, through documentary photography, design and writing. Her book Thinking like an island, realised with Gabriele Chiapparini and published by Overlapse in 2024, was a recipient of the Photo Espana Best Photography Book Award in 2025. She was a finalist for the Luigi Ghirri Prize in 2024 and for Project Groundswell in 2025. Her work was exhibited in Verzasca Foto Festival (CH), Dutch Design Week (NL), Fotografia Europea (IT), Espaço Alto (BR), PhMuseum Lab (IT), Spazio MAD (CH), Kranj Foto Fest (SI), Focus Artphilein (CH), Casa Testori (IT). She has been PhMuseum's Visual Editor since 2023, and works as a graphic and book designer since 2021, collaborating with publishing houses and artists.
Gabriele Chiapparini
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
With a background in sociology, he worked for several years in advertising before focusing on artistic practice and photography publishing. He is the founder and host of Small Photobook Cult, a podcast entirely dedicated to photobooks. Working in a duo with Camilla Marrese, he published Thinking like an island (Overlapse) in 2024, which was a recipient of the Photo Espana Best Photography Book Award in 2025. Their work was a finalist in Project Groundswell in 2025, and exhibited in Verzasca Foto Festival (CH), Espaço Alto (BR), PhMuseum Lab (IT), Spazio MAD (CH), Kranj Foto Fest (SI), Focus Artphilein (CH), Casa Testori (IT).
Hiền Hoàng
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
Combining scientific instruments and intimate observation, Hoàng’s practice investigates material transformations as traces of witnessing violence, care, and memory. Her projects have been exhibited internationally at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, CentroCentro Cibeles in Madrid, Epica Fundacion Barcelona, and other major media arts festivals. In 2024 she received the Paul Huf Award, which led to her first institutional solo exhibition at Foam. Recent works include Garden of Entanglement (2024) - translating vibrational data from urban trees into sound, augmented reality, and sculptural forms; Scent from Heaven (2023), which explored the wounding and transformation of agarwood trees through CT and EEG imaging; and Across the Ocean (2023), an installation reworking migrant family archives through distortion and performance.
Ryan Lim Zi Yi
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Carp Gallery (Taiwan), Plague Space (Russia), and LivingRoom (Netherlands); and in Singapore with Whitestone Gallery, Temporary Unit, DECK, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Comma Space, Objectifs, DECK. His recent curatorial projects include Robin (2022-2023), a series of exhibitions presented in camping tents pitched in various locations across Singapore. Currently, he runs a curatorial project titled, BACKYARD, a 7 volume subscription-based publication housing artists reports of happenings around Singapore. BACKYARD is an idea for an art space in the form of a folder.
Shi Yangkun
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
His works have been exhibited at Forschungscampus Dahlem, Berlin (2025); Goethe-Institut Beijing (2025); A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (2025); Stadtmuseum Berlin (2024); Zhejiang Art Museum (2023); and the Peabody Essex Museum (2022). His works are held in public collections including the Peabody Essex Museum, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, and the Zhejiang Art Museum.
Song-Ming Ang
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
Drawing from the everyday and popular culture, Ang adopts different approaches to create objects and encounters for the audience. Much of his work is made from the perspective of an amateur and finding fresh perspectives to established fields of knowledge. Previous works include Silent Walk (2014), where participants move and listen to the sounds of their immediate environment in a self-organised manner and The Book of Guilty Pleasures (2011) where Ang invited and compiled 100 responses by artists, musicians and writers about their favourite embarrassing music. An’s work has been presented across a multitude of countries such as US, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Turkey - in reputable festivals, biennials and museums. In 2019, Ang represented Singapore at the 58th Venice Biennale with a solo presentation, Music for Everyone: Various On a Theme.
Minstrel Kuik
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #0
Kuik believes that the private space is the major battlefield of ideological, political and economic interests. Hence, she explores art as a historical trajectory where the process of reading, thinking, making, revisiting and counterbalancing is a reflective and transformative experience.
Kuik has exhibited widely in Southeast-Asia and overseas institutions such as National Gallery Singapore; Singapore Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Australia; Ilham Gallery, Malaysia; FotoFest, Houston; Photoquai, Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Higashikawa Photo Festival, Higashikawa, Japan; and at the Lishui Biennial Photography Festival in China, Melbourne International Festival of Photography, Australia.
MM Yu
Artist
A.i.R 2023
Yu is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artist Award (2009) Ateneo Art Awards (winner in 2007, shortlisted in 2011/2012). Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist (2010) and Goethe-Institute-Climate Change workshop grant (2014).
Poklong Anading
Artist
A.i.R 2023
Fascinated with the process of creation and permutation, Anading thinks with and through his materials as they undergo their transformations. He frequently uses found objects and discarded materials that lead him to investigate notions of worth and value in sociopolitical and environmental contexts - exploring what it means for art to exist inside and beyond capitalist production. Anading has been included in notable group exhibitions such as: 5th Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2015); Traces of an Adolescent City at Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy (2016), Constellations, Photographs in Dialogue, SFMOMA, California, USA (2021) and Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia at National Gallery Singapore (2022).
Hu Qiren
Artist
A.i.R 2019
Tristan Cai
Artist
A.i.R 2019
Cai has exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum, San Francisco Foundation, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Kumho Museum of Art and National Museum of Singapore. He earned his M.F.A from San Francisco Art Institute along with the institute’s most coveted fellowship award. He is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Abednego Trianto
Artist
A.i.R 2017
Abed was awarded the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography (2010). His photographs have been exhibited internationally including the Chobi Mela Photo Festival, the Singapore International Photography Festival and the Noorderlitch Photo Festival.
Liana Yang
Artist
A.i.R 2015
Her works have been showcased at Nooderlicht International Photofestival, Netherlands, Arles Photography Open Salon, France, Singapore Art Museum@8Q, Artissima 19, Italy and Warsaw Photo Days, Poland. Her three self-published photobooks have also been selected and showcased internationally in Brighton, UK, Helsinki, Finland, Malmo, Sweden and Tokyo, Japan.
She resides and works in Singapore.
