Jeremy Chu

About Me

Name

Jeremy Chan Peng Chu

Country

Bio

Jeremy Chu is a Singapore born artist, researcher and cultural worker. For the past 10 years, he has worked in Singapore, Boston, New York, USA, Manchester, UK, Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China.

He studied museology and exhibition making as an intern at the MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Art Interactive, Boston, USA. He studied fine art photography at the Art Institute of Boston.

Since 2004 he has collaborated and organized community-based art projects using dialogue and participation as a mode of engagement and enquiry. Projects included Sifting the Inner Belt (Boston Centre for the Arts, Boston, USA, 2005), National Bitter Melon Council, (Boston, USA, 2005-2006) and Local Symposium-Asia Triennial Manchester (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2008).

As a solo artist, he has created site-specific installations and durational performances that examined his relational history concerning Chinese diasporas, identity politics, ideas of home and the public sphere, projects include:

· The Fisherman’s Net: A Journey towards Reconciliation (Art Institute of Boston, Boston, USA 2003) and The Renaissance Window Project: A Parallax View (Artist Home Studio, Boston, USA, 2006).

· In 2007, he traveled to his ancestral home of Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, China to film a Channel News Asia documentary The Road Home, in conjunction with the National Month of Singapore.

· In April 2008, he traveled to Shanghai, China to participate in, “What’s Possible?” symposium convened by Binghui Huangfu on the topic of cultural production in China’s future at Zendai Museum of Modern Art. He has also contributed an essay for the publications project of the same title. As a professional fine arts photographer, Chu is represented in private collections in the United States of America and Australia.

Chu lives and works in Singapore.

Areas of Interest

Independent Research, Cultural Studies and Productions, New Urbanism in Asia.

External Link 1

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremychusingapore