The artist-in-residence (AIR) programme at Yale-NUS College nurtured artistic thinking as an essential tool for learning. The “arts” in liberal arts was enlivened by professional artists who create, reflect, teach, critique and engage with art in diverse ways today. The liberal arts tradition in education flourished with active artists on campus who worked in connection with esteemed museums, curators and institutions across the globe as well as local institutions including the Asian Civilisations Museum, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art and National Gallery Singapore.
“Yale-NUS Artist-in-Residence programme was extremely important in shaping my art practice and perspective in general. Learning from artists of different specializations and with different passions is essential to get a more complete understanding of the art world beyond Singapore. The programme definitely forges global connections for students as well and provides experiences that will continue to benefit me along my artistic journey.”
—Zhai Qiutong (Class of 2023)
Semester 2 AY2020/2021
Beatrice Glow
Semester 2 AY2020/2021
Beatrice Glow’s research-intensive artwork is concerned with themes of diaspora, indigeneity and the intersecting historical realities of botany and empire. Notable exhibitions and screenings of her work have been held at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Honolulu Biennial 2017; Duke House Exhibition Series, Institute of Fine Art, NYU, New York; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile; and Galeri Nasional, Indonesia. Beatrice completed a BFA in Studio Art at New York University and has received awards ranging from Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Emerging Artist Fellow, and was a Fulbright Scholar for Performance Art. During her residency at Yale-NUS College, Beatrice used multi-sensory approaches, ranging from experiential technology to olfactory art. Through collaborative artistic methods she worked with students, National University of Singapore Museum and community members to research the circulation of people, objects and cultures, focusing on multivalent relationships between Chinese decorative arts, migration flows in Southeast Asia and global cultural productions.
Semester 2 AY2019/2020
Andrew Yang
Semester 2 AY2019/2020
Andrew S. Yang works across the visual arts, the sciences, and history to explore emerging ecologies of the Anthropocene. Yang’s work has been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016), the Spencer Museum of Art (2019), and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (2020). His writing and research can be found in Art Journal, Leonardo, Biological Theory, and Antennae. Curatorial work includes Earthly Observatory at Sullivan Galleries: School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as Making Kin—Worlds Becoming at the Center for Humans & Nature. He is a Professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History and is a curatorial fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature.
https://www.andrewyang.net/
https://www.instagram.com/new_empiricisms/
Christa Donner
Semester 2 AY2019/2020
Christa Donner is an artist, writer, and organiser who investigates the human and animal body as well as its metaphors. Donner employs a range of artistic media in her creative research, including drawing, audio performance, large-scale installations and small-press publications to create multi-layered projects that are both intimate and community-centered. Her artistic research focuses on the human and non-human body as a site for conflict and adaptation, from the internal activities of the microbiome to the creative potentials of care work and community. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://www.christadonner.com/
https://www.culturalreproducers.org/