Associate Creative Programme
Next Open Call
Aug 2026
About
Launched in 2021, the DECK Associate Creative Programme aims to support creative thinkers from around the world by providing a platform to explore, develop, and share new knowledge surrounding the photographic medium and broader visual culture through original research and programming.
Project Support
- Up to SGD 3,000 for costs related to exhibition production or public programming.
- A professional fee of SGD 1,000 to support the Associate’s contribution and engagement.
- Project proposals will be reviewed and supported by the panel of esteemed curators representing diverse disciplines within the visual arts and photography sectors.
Eligibility
The DECK Associate Creative Programme is open to applicants of all nationalities, ages, ethnicities, genders, and levels of professional experience. Applications are welcome from individuals as well as collectives.
The programme is designed for the following profiles:
- Curators
- Artists
- Programmers
- Cultural producers
- Collectives
Applicants should have an interest in presenting an original photography-based project.
Proposal Eligibility
Proposals must fulfill the following criterias:
- Engage meaningfully with photography or image-based arts
- Be relevant to the Asia-Pacific region
- Align with the goals of the Associate Creative Programme
Existing Work Requirement
This programme does not support the creation of new artworks or artist studio-based research. Proposals focused on artistic production should be submitted under DECK’s Artist-in-Residence programme instead.
Application Fee
There are no fees required to apply.
Disclaimer
All information is accurate at the time of publication. Programme details are subject to change or rescheduling.
Featuring
Joanna Fu
Curator
Joanna Fu is a Photography and Visual Culture Researcher, Writer, and Curator based between Taipei and Shanghai.
In 2024, she curated Never the Same River, a group exhibition featuring twelve international artists responding to the rapidly evolving landscape of
photographic media in the age of advanced technology and AI. Earlier projects include Hai, Dozo! – A New Generation of Japanese Photographers (2019), which showcased eight Japanese artists investigating the photographic medium in
relation to their social realities, and Beneath the Surface – Taiwan Contemporary Photography Exhibition (2015), which presented six of Taiwan’s most significant photographic artists, including one who represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale and others active in major international biennials.
Fu was the Nominating Curator for the 2023 Jimei × Arles Discovery Award, with
her nominated artist winning the prize; the exhibition was later presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2024. In 2025, she serves as Curatorial Mentor for the Young Artist Running Program, the annual educational initiative at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing.
In 2024, she curated Never the Same River, a group exhibition featuring twelve international artists responding to the rapidly evolving landscape of
photographic media in the age of advanced technology and AI. Earlier projects include Hai, Dozo! – A New Generation of Japanese Photographers (2019), which showcased eight Japanese artists investigating the photographic medium in
relation to their social realities, and Beneath the Surface – Taiwan Contemporary Photography Exhibition (2015), which presented six of Taiwan’s most significant photographic artists, including one who represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale and others active in major international biennials.
Fu was the Nominating Curator for the 2023 Jimei × Arles Discovery Award, with
her nominated artist winning the prize; the exhibition was later presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2024. In 2025, she serves as Curatorial Mentor for the Young Artist Running Program, the annual educational initiative at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing.
Lenette Lua
Curator
Lenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political, economic, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative,’ exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops. She was the recipient of the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2024 Award. Her curatorial projects include Hope you are keeping well! (2025) at Objectifs, Singapore, Lessons from a Pekaka: Sensing, Dreaming, Witnessing (2023), Acrobatic Souls (2021), Ask Self-Doll (2020-2021) and so remember the liquid ground (2020) at Gasworks, U.K.
Currently working at the Curatorial Programmes department at National Gallery Singapore, she has curated
programmes for the exhibitions Figuring a Scene (2024), Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America (2023) and Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method (2023) as well as long-term galleries on Singapore and Southeast Asian art. She was one of the co-convenors of October Gathering #1 which sought to chart burgeoning issues in the field of Southeast Asian art.
Currently working at the Curatorial Programmes department at National Gallery Singapore, she has curated
programmes for the exhibitions Figuring a Scene (2024), Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America (2023) and Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method (2023) as well as long-term galleries on Singapore and Southeast Asian art. She was one of the co-convenors of October Gathering #1 which sought to chart burgeoning issues in the field of Southeast Asian art.
Daniel Chong
Artist/Curator
Unfurling Murmurs (2025)
Daniel Chong (b. 1995, Singapore) is an artist-curator that works between the quiet slippages of function and sentimentality. Working through subtlety, his works evoke an emotive sense of longing and desire. Chong engages with materialism as a
means to unearth sentimental connections through objects, but centred in our understanding of them through its use. His practice is often characterised with the ability to softly nudge our preconceived notions of objects through minute interventions. His works seem irreverent and casual but in it lies a thorough process of listening and working an object through its materiality.
Daniel Chong (b. 1995, Singapore) is an artist-curator that works between the quiet slippages of function and sentimentality. Working through subtlety, his works evoke an emotive sense of longing and desire. Chong engages with materialism as a
means to unearth sentimental connections through objects, but centred in our understanding of them through its use. His practice is often characterised with the ability to softly nudge our preconceived notions of objects through minute interventions. His works seem irreverent and casual but in it lies a thorough process of listening and working an object through its materiality.
Dylan Chan
Artist
Unfurling Murmurs (2025)
Dylan Chan b. 1997, is a Singaporean artist who graduated from Lasalle College of The Arts with a BFA (Hons) in 2022.
Primarily an image maker, his practice sits on the cusp between image and object making, re-examining the ways in which the body positions itself within domestic spaces and its phenomenological response towards objects.
In trying to articulate the poignant moments of the mundane, Chan is interested in the ways we navigate thresholds and relationships between private spaces and the surfaces we come into contact with. Chan brings into focus the act of peeling back the layers of intimate relationships and reflects upon the spaces we dwell in and how we navigate them.
Dylan Chan b. 1997, is a Singaporean artist who graduated from Lasalle College of The Arts with a BFA (Hons) in 2022.
Primarily an image maker, his practice sits on the cusp between image and object making, re-examining the ways in which the body positions itself within domestic spaces and its phenomenological response towards objects.
In trying to articulate the poignant moments of the mundane, Chan is interested in the ways we navigate thresholds and relationships between private spaces and the surfaces we come into contact with. Chan brings into focus the act of peeling back the layers of intimate relationships and reflects upon the spaces we dwell in and how we navigate them.
Clara Peh
Curator
The Unstable Image (2023)
Clara is an independent curator and art writer in Singapore. Her practice centres around emerging technologies and experimental practices. Her curatorial projects have included: “Notes From the Ether”, ArtScience Museum, Singapore; “Proof of Concept”, Co-Museum and Appetite, Singapore, and “Generating/Iterating”, The Upside Space (all 2023). She was also Curator for Art Dubai Digital 2023 and Art Lead at Appetite 2021-2023. Her writing has been published on The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Yishu: Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art and Market, along others. Clara holds a BA in Economics from Yale-NUS College and MA in History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art.
Clara is an independent curator and art writer in Singapore. Her practice centres around emerging technologies and experimental practices. Her curatorial projects have included: “Notes From the Ether”, ArtScience Museum, Singapore; “Proof of Concept”, Co-Museum and Appetite, Singapore, and “Generating/Iterating”, The Upside Space (all 2023). She was also Curator for Art Dubai Digital 2023 and Art Lead at Appetite 2021-2023. Her writing has been published on The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Yishu: Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art and Market, along others. Clara holds a BA in Economics from Yale-NUS College and MA in History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art.
Sean Cham
Curator
Archive of One’s Own (2024)
Sean Cham 曾繁杨 (he/him) is a researcher and artist who engages in questions of histories, memories, and the consumption and production of both.
He is pursuing a PhD in History of Art, on a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between London’s National Gallery and Birkbeck, University of London. His doctoral work is interested in museum studies, gaps in the archives, and colonial legacies. He has also worked on projects surrounding heritage studies, conservation, and social history.
In his artistic practice, he works at the intersections of photography, performance, and installation. His interdisciplinary and critical practice is concerned with histories and built environments; particularly considering ideas around authorship, contestation, gaps, and migration. Cham’s works were exhibited in Ethiopia, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden. His works had been commissioned by M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, The Future of Our Pasts Festival, and NUS Centre For the Arts.
Sean Cham 曾繁杨 (he/him) is a researcher and artist who engages in questions of histories, memories, and the consumption and production of both.
He is pursuing a PhD in History of Art, on a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between London’s National Gallery and Birkbeck, University of London. His doctoral work is interested in museum studies, gaps in the archives, and colonial legacies. He has also worked on projects surrounding heritage studies, conservation, and social history.
In his artistic practice, he works at the intersections of photography, performance, and installation. His interdisciplinary and critical practice is concerned with histories and built environments; particularly considering ideas around authorship, contestation, gaps, and migration. Cham’s works were exhibited in Ethiopia, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden. His works had been commissioned by M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, The Future of Our Pasts Festival, and NUS Centre For the Arts.
Singmoolsung
Curator
Queer Life Drawing (2024)
Singmoolsung (Minsoo Bae & Anonymous Collaborator) is a creative duo that explores embodiment/disassociation – moments of fractures and integration as experienced by the body and the unconscious mind.
Their work together has taken the form of zines and experimental community events, designed around the theme of queer embodiment.
Their regular programme, Queer Life Drawing Circle (@queerlifedrawing.sg), has been conducted monthly since June 2022.
Singmoolsung (Minsoo Bae & Anonymous Collaborator) is a creative duo that explores embodiment/disassociation – moments of fractures and integration as experienced by the body and the unconscious mind.
Their work together has taken the form of zines and experimental community events, designed around the theme of queer embodiment.
Their regular programme, Queer Life Drawing Circle (@queerlifedrawing.sg), has been conducted monthly since June 2022.
Talia Smith
Curator
The Salt of the Earth (2022)
During the course of the programme, Talia developed an exhibition proposal titled “The Salt of the Earth“, that explores the way in which the familial ties that bind shape and informs who we are, through the works of 4 Australian and New Zealander artists. Talia then went on to realise her proposal and presented her exhibition at the 8th Singapore International Photography Festival.
During the course of the programme, Talia developed an exhibition proposal titled “The Salt of the Earth“, that explores the way in which the familial ties that bind shape and informs who we are, through the works of 4 Australian and New Zealander artists. Talia then went on to realise her proposal and presented her exhibition at the 8th Singapore International Photography Festival.
Alfonse Chiu
Curator
Territo/Realities (2022)
Alfonse curated a film programme titled “Territo/Realities“, which surveys the complicated relationship between humanity and planet Earth, as told by the images we make of them. The programme brought together 12 films in 3 chapters, hosted at the Alliance Française de Singapour, expanding our understanding of what it means to take a picture of our world.
Alfonse curated a film programme titled “Territo/Realities“, which surveys the complicated relationship between humanity and planet Earth, as told by the images we make of them. The programme brought together 12 films in 3 chapters, hosted at the Alliance Française de Singapour, expanding our understanding of what it means to take a picture of our world.
