TEAM

President - Audrey Lim

Arts advocate • Ecosystem constructor • Problem solver

Audrey first saw the Mona Lisa as a 14-year old Art Elective Programme student on a government-subsidised art tour. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws and has dedicated the last decade to exploring every facet of the entertainment industry. She has been a radio DJ; a music manager; a restauranteur; a speaker on self-employment and intellectual property; an actor; an arts school lecturer; a conference host and a panel moderator.

Audrey created the virtual music festival experience, Take Back The Nights, where she mounted concerts and conferences in the metaverse.

She is an advocate for the arts and has recently accepted a role as a member of the IMDA’s Arts Consultative Panel.


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Vice President - Deborah Lim

Connector • Curator • Dreamer

Deborah began her career with the Public Programmes team at National Gallery Singapore before becoming Curator and Junior Partner at Chan + Hori Contemporary, a curatorial consultancy based in Singapore. She is presently a curator at an internationally-renowned museum in Singapore.

She graduated with a Master of Arts (Distinction) in Curating & Collections from Chelsea College of Arts (London) and majored in Arts & Culture Management as part of her Bachelor of Business Management degree from the Singapore Management University.

She was involved in curating/co-curating and project managing exhibitions including Creative Intersections: In the Year of the Tiger (2022), Singapore Utopia (2019), the Maybank Women Eco-Weaver exhibitions (2018 - 2021), Atypical Singapore (2018 - 2020) and DISINI (2018). For VADA, she curated UNTAPPED (2018 and 2019) at Chan + Hori Contemporary and the Affordable Art Fair respectively.


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Treasurer - Yen Phang

Ecosphere commentator • Community advocate • Maven

Yen is a fine artist who works across the mediums of painting, installation, and performance. Born to a geneticist and an agriculturist, he explores nature as interface, sense phenomena in eco/bodily systems. In particular, his practice reflects upon human relationships with other living things in urban environments.

He is the recipient of the Winston Oh Grant; the Winston Oh Travel Research Award and the Cliftons Art Prize.

Yen holds a Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore and a Bachelors of Laws (University of New South Wales) along with a Diploma in Singapore Law from the National University of Singapore.


Secretary - Kendrick Tay

World builder • Project sherpa • Goal architect

Kendrick trained in Architecture at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and is a sought-after project manager, with experience in the design, fabrication and general organisation of exhibitions both within and without Singapore.

He managed the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, No More Free Space? (2018), and To-Gather : The Architecture of Relationships (2021) where he was responsible for works conducted in Venice and the following homecoming exhibitions in Singapore

He also has experience with both art fabrication (Singapore Art Week 2021 and 2022) and the organisation of community Makerspaces. Most recently, he is affiliated with The Made Agency, a Singapore-based multi-disciplinary co-making space.


Advisor - Khai Hori

Khai Hori, an internationally renowned curator, was Deputy Director of Artistic Programming at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Senior Curator at the Singapore Art Museum, overseeing Singapore’s national collection for contemporary art, and was also Senior Curator at the Curatorial Development department of the National Heritage Board, Singapore. Khai has been known for his multidisciplinary and unconventional approach to curating influenced by his past experiences in theatre and art creation. The testament to this approach was the successful curation of DISINI - a public art festival from January to September 2018 and LOCK ROUTE, the first international outdoor sculpture exhibition at Singapore’s visual art precinct, Gillman Barracks, which attracted an estimate of 10,000 visitors on opening night in 2017.

His past projects include In Praise of Shadows, a sustainable light art festival at the Marina Bay precinct, Singapore (2016); What happens now?: Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab (2016); The Light of the Light by Quistrebert brothers (2016); Tianzhuo Chen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Sous la lune, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (2015); Secret Archipelago, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Open SEA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon (2015); Welcome to the Jungle, Yokohama Museum of Art and Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan (2013); If the World Changed, Singapore Biennale (2013); Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2012); and Negotiating Home, History and Nation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2011).