CV: AWARDS

• 2023: Juror, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival New Asian Currents 
• 2023: National Teaching Fellowship 2023 nomination (MMU nomination): Based on original and sustained EDI-centred creative HE interventions and impacts, mentored since 2020 by senior colleagues to apply for prestigious award
• 2021: BBC film commission on ‘neurofuturism’ on BBC iPlayer. Approached by Battersea Arts Centre to distribute film  
• 2021: Keynote lecture on Tentacular Pedagogy. European Network for higher arts education (ELIA, with 300,000 members of lecturers, educators, researchers, technicians, and students across 282 institutions in 48 countries Europe, N and S Americas, Australia and Asia 
• 2021: Commissioned installation on Neuro-Futuristic 2050. Attenborough Arts Centre group exhibition The World is a Work in Progress with Bob & Roberta Smith & others
• 2020:  Co-curator. 4-day 75^th Anniversary Celebrations of 5^th Pan African Congress PAC75 for Black History Month 2020 with Prof. Of Architecture Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool). 11 partner institutions incl Uni. of Manchester, Big Music People. Reached 18.2m worldwide (EAV £168,000). Youtube channel: 2000 hits in 3 weeks. Performances, poetry, dance, seminars and student leaders in conversation with Black leaders Lemn Sissay OBE, Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton), Afua Hirsh, Gary Younge, David Olusoga OBE and more. Impacts: 100% positive feedback including from Africa; setup of 55-member intra-institutional Race Equality Activities Planning group (REAP); Dr Jade Munslow Ong (Salford), Dr Shirin Hirsch (MMU), became BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers 2022; resources for CPD, teaching, learning; mechanisms for future EDI-centred, multi-institutional collaboration   
• 2018: National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement Images Contest Award for Culture Change 
• 2018: Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa (Arts Council England/Home office)  
• 2017: Invited speaker. BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking on running & thinking
• 2016: Official Competition (216 from 2680 entries). Annecy International Animated Film Festival. France
• 2015: Visual & Communications Director. £4m Opening & Closing Ceremonies 8^th ASEAN Para Games
• 2012: Live art, Documenta 13, Germany
• 2012: London Ambassador Excellence Award. Greater London Authority
• 2009: Life! Best Multimedia Design Award nomination for Vagina Monologues. Singapore 
• 2008: Artist representing Singapore: Guangzhou & Nanjing Triennales. China. Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh  
• 2007: Young Artist Award. Highest national award for artists aged <35 received from the Singapore President
• 2007: Permanent public art commissioned by Land Transport Authority Singapore. Bras Basah Station in Arts & Heritage District of Singapore. Only station commissioned media art. Voted by Today newspaper as top artwork of Circle Line
• 2006: Artist representing Singapore: Biennale of Sydney. Australia. Exhibition + multi-state Masterclasses.  
• 2004: Japanese Experimental Cinema Program. New York Film Anthology, MOMA. Alongside Toshio Matsumoto 
• 1999: Golden Gate New Visions Merit Award. 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival. USA
• 1994: 8th Panasonic Video Awards 
• 1994: The Most Promising Young Artist Award. UOB 12th Painting of the Year. 
• 1993: Certificate of Distinction. Phillipe Charriol Contemporary Art Competition, Singapore
• Aged 4: Win first art competition and begin trophy collection

• 2018-9: Centre for Contemporary Art (Director: Ute Meta Bauer), Nanyang Technological University. Singapore
• 2017-8: King’s Artist, KCL. UK.
• 2015: Centre for Contemporary Art. Warsaw, Poland
• 2012: Slade Summer Residency
• 2010: Villa Straeuli. Winterthur, Switzerland 
• 2009: Mixed Bathing World Festival. Funded by Japan Foundation. Beppu, Japan
• 2007: Trade Routes. Funded by Singapore National Arts Council. Manila & Dumaguete, Philippines
• 2006: Biennale of Sydney. Perth, Canberra, Sydney, Australia
• 2006: NIFCA-Theatreworks. Helsinki, Finland
• 2004: Flying Circus Project with Atlas Group, Jerome Bel et al. Theatreworks, Singapore

• 2019: Head of Department’s office, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre  
• 2018: King’s College London Library
• 2018: Southeast Asian Performance Collection, Live Art Developmental Agency
• 2018: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art. Singapore 
• (2018: Private collectors via Shape Arts)
• 2017: Live Art Developmental Agency
• 2016: UCL Dept of Geography
• 2016: Wellcome Trust Images Library
• 2015: Leeds Arts University
• 2013: Museum of London
• 2007: Land Transport Authority. Singapore. Land Transport Authority Singapore.     Bras Basah Station in Arts & Heritage     District of Singapore. Voted by Today   newspaper as top artwork of Circle Line
• 2000: Fukuoka Art Museum. Japan
• 1993: United Overseas Bank. Singapore

>£500,000 from arts, governmental, business, academic, research, health & other bodies in UK, Europe and Asia

AS PRINCIPAL or CO-INVESTIGATOR

• 2024: £500, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Strategic Fund, for the preparation of Catalysing Change through Artful Leadership Symposium. I specialise in conceptualising diverse, divergent, neuro-queered, decolonial approaches to visual arts practice-led research and education. I term my effort ‘artful leadership’, and seek to re-position visual arts as a future-facing change-making force, including by learning from those who embody ‘artfulness’ and ‘leadership’. The fund supported work towards a public symposium with ‘artful leaders’. An outcome of this is towards external grant applications. The symposium functions as a key partnership development process as it will allow me to reach speakers that I would like to work further with.
• 2024: £400, Research fund, Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Learning about decolonial strategies: Undertake field work to reflect on decolonising art objects and spaces, through the exhibition ‘Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century’, at the National Gallery (a former Supreme court during the British rule), Singapore.
• 2023: £5000 commission by Social Practice Lab of University of Southampton, and funded by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH) and Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). Love + social justice + counter-mapping + finding and forming new alliances + a re-imagination of my new home in Hampshire, UK. This is a new project that I have designed and will lead. This was an invitation by Social Practice Lab of University of Southampton, and funded by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH) and Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). The project draws on and extends findings from the Lab’s first leg, entitled Mapping Social Impact: A Data Study of Southampton and Winchester, which was designed and led by the Lab’s Co-Convenors Professor of Critical Practice Ed D’Souza and Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique Sunil Manghani, alongside Senior Research Assistant (and Wessex Sound and Film Archive Curator) Zoë Burgess (2022-2023). The findings from Leg II will enable me to build Leg III of the project, which will be an international project and network. Do reach out if you are keen to collaborate.
• 2022: £2800. MMU  for research 
• 2021: £11,880. The Space, Unlimited & MMU for film    
• 2021: £5000. Arts Council England & Anglia Ruskin University for Running Artfully Network (RAN) Launch
• 2019: £650. British Council & Unlimited for IntegrART conference, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2018: £500 from A-N for relational dynamics Coaching Accreditation Course.
• 2018: Equivalent of £6000 from NTU Centre Contemporary Art & Unlimited for residency. Singapore  
• 2017: £1000 Fellowship from Lancaster University
• 2017: £56,127 from Unlimited (Main Commission) & King’s College London (King’s Artist) for project    
• 2015: Commission from Singapore government via Philbeat for £4m ASEAN Para Games ceremonies
• 2014-7: £17,000. Leeds Arts University for research 
• 2014: £900. AHRC Creative Fellowship & UCL for first RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 
• 2011-2: £1760. UCL for participation in Documenta, Germany & Soft Borders, Brazil.
• 2009: £107,520 UCL Overseas Graduate & Graduate Research Scholarships. For PhD research      
• 2009: £30,000. Singapore National Arts Council for PhD research 
• 2007: £5000 Young Artist Award from the Singapore President via Singapore National Arts Council 
• 2007: £25,000. Singapore Land Transport Authority for permanent public art 
• 1998-2008: 10 X £500-£10,000 each. Singapore National Arts Council for art
• 2002: £50,000. Japanese Chambers of Commerce Industry for MA research 
• 1994: £75,000. Shell-National Arts Council Art for UCL Slade BA studies   

AS COLLABORATOR

• 2021: £3000. MMU for research network for Social Art Inclusion Lab (SAIL)
• 2021: Researcher & Mentor for Amanda Ravetz’s Social Artists for EDI SAFEDI
• 2021: Mentor for Ali Wilson’s Every Brain (£14,867, Arts Council England). 
• 2021: Mentor for Ashok Mistry (£10,000, Arts Council England) with George Vasey & Mike Layward/Dash Arts
• 2020: £12,000. MMU for 75^th Anniversary of 5^th Pan African Congress Celebrations
• 2019: Approximately £6000 total from Wellcome-ISSF for Birkbeck Arts Festival exhibition (with Sophie Jones, Ale Cianetti) and Mental Health Activism and Clinical Practice workshops (with Mohammed Rashed)