Kent Chan is an artist, curator, and filmmaker based in the Netherlands and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction, and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content, and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imaginary, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity as the epistemology par excellence. The works and practices of others often form the locus of his works, which have taken the form of film, text, conversations, and exhibitions. He was a resident at Medialab Matadero and a former resident at Gasworks (2022); Jan van Eyck Academie (2019-2020); NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017-2018); and Rupert’s Residency Program (2015). He has held solo and two-person presentations at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Bonnefanten Museum, Rotterdam; National University Singapore Museum; de Appel, Amsterdam; and SCCALjubljana, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia. His works and films have been exhibited in venues and festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam; Times Museum, Guangzhou; EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Onassis Stegi, Athens; BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Busan Biennale; and Drodesera Festival of Performing Arts. He is the 2021 winner of the Foundwork Artist Prize and his works are collected by the Kadist Foundation, France/US; the Rijkscollectie, Netherlands; and Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands.
SMB12 (2023) Artist
SMB12 (2023) THIS TOO, IS A MAP Postcards (45) Contributor
SMB12 pre-Biennale II TERRAINFORMING (2022) Participant
