Artist-in-Residence #1
NEXT OPEN CALL
August 2026
GEERAL INFORMATION
About
Following the results of our Open Call in September 2025, we welcome our Artist-in-Residence #1. Five artists — Phuong Le, Chen Chuanduan, Chen Qiheng, Teo Shi Yun and Adar Ng, selected for their bold vision and commitment to advancing creative boundaries, will further develop and expand their practices through new and compelling ways.
DECK’s Artist-in-Residence (A.i.R) is a year-round programme designed to support innovative and experimental photography practices in Singapore and across Asia. Providing a supportive and open environment, the residency offers artists opportunities to refine their craft through activities such as field trips and consultations with industry professionals. Each cycle of the A.i.R. programme culminates in an exhibition showcasing the works developed during the residency, alongside public talks, guided tours, and workshops led by the artist.
DECK’s Artist-in-Residence (A.i.R) is a year-round programme designed to support innovative and experimental photography practices in Singapore and across Asia. Providing a supportive and open environment, the residency offers artists opportunities to refine their craft through activities such as field trips and consultations with industry professionals. Each cycle of the A.i.R. programme culminates in an exhibition showcasing the works developed during the residency, alongside public talks, guided tours, and workshops led by the artist.
Featuring
Phuong Le
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #1
Lê Nguyên Phương (or Phuong Nguyen Le in Western naming convention) (b. 2002, Ha Noi) is an emerging Vietnamese photographer, artist, and researcher. His work engages with counter-historical thoughts, drawing on familial, communal, and collective identities within his Vietnamese communities.
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).
Lê Nguyên Phương (or Phuong Nguyen Le in Western naming convention) (b. 2002, Ha Noi) is an emerging Vietnamese photographer, artist, and researcher. His work engages with counter-historical thoughts, drawing on familial, communal, and collective identities within his Vietnamese communities.
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
A.i.R Cycle #1
Chen Chuanduan (born 1994) employs imagery and text as his mediums, embarking from the documentary of personal emotions and experiences. His work focuses on the connection between humanity and nature, as well as the silent appeals within modern life. Fascinated by natural science and mysticism, he has a particular affinity for conveying the ineffable through fiction.
Chen Chuanduan (born 1994) employs imagery and text as his mediums, embarking from the documentary of personal emotions and experiences. His work focuses on the connection between humanity and nature, as well as the silent appeals within modern life. Fascinated by natural science and mysticism, he has a particular affinity for conveying the ineffable through fiction.
Chen Qiheng
Artist
A.i.R Cycle #1
Qiheng Chen earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, UK, and his Master’s degree in Media Art from the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He lives and works in Guangzhou and is a research-driven visual artist whose practice spans film, photography, text, and sculpture.
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.”
Qiheng Chen earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, UK, and his Master’s degree in Media Art from the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He lives and works in Guangzhou and is a research-driven visual artist whose practice spans film, photography, text, and sculpture.
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
A.i.R Cycle #1
Shi Yun Teo (b. 1999, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist, recent graduate from Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL. Her work usually takes the form of photography and filmmaking. She creates narrative and abstract works that feature historic documents, archival footages and personal recordings: visualising how spaces frame communal memory, evoking themes of reincarnation, dislocation, and return.
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 investigates 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.
Shi Yun Teo (b. 1999, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist, recent graduate from Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL. Her work usually takes the form of photography and filmmaking. She creates narrative and abstract works that feature historic documents, archival footages and personal recordings: visualising how spaces frame communal memory, evoking themes of reincarnation, dislocation, and return.
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 investigates 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
A.i.R Cycle #1
Adar Ng and Dave Lim are an artist-filmmaker duo that have worked together since 2018 through multiple artistic, curatorial and research projects. Their notable projects include The Spaces Between Us (2021), Between The Lines (2020), ON/OFF/SCREEN 2021. Collectively, their work has travelled internationally such as Busan Video Art Festival and Hong Kong International Photography Festival. Their artistic concerns circle around the quotidian visual poetry of life, the need to bear witness and an insatiable questioning of social paradigms.
Adar Ng and Dave Lim are an artist-filmmaker duo that have worked together since 2018 through multiple artistic, curatorial and research projects. Their notable projects include The Spaces Between Us (2021), Between The Lines (2020), ON/OFF/SCREEN 2021. Collectively, their work has travelled internationally such as Busan Video Art Festival and Hong Kong International Photography Festival. Their artistic concerns circle around the quotidian visual poetry of life, the need to bear witness and an insatiable questioning of social paradigms.
