Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.
Masuri Mazlan is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, found objects, and photography. His mixed-media installations translate innate desires of intimacy, longing, and belonging into uncanny but familiar vignettes of domestic and everyday life. Transforming industrial materials into amorphous forms, Masuri moves between the boundaries of hardness and softness, control and vulnerability, personal memory and collective experience—creating speculative objects that operate as quiet sites of reckoning with inherited trauma and the ambiguities of identity. He was recently commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum to present Can haunting be another way of enduring? for its 2025 SAM Contemporaries biennale.
Masuri graduated with a BA in Fine Art (First Class Honours) from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2018. His artistic excellence has been recognised through awards including the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Scholarship (2016), the 38th International Takifuji Art Award (2017), the Winston Oh Travelogue Research Award (2018), and the MENDAKI Award for Academic Excellence (2019). Committed to arts advocacy, Masuri was selected for the National Art Council-LASALLE Community Arts Mentorship Programme (2019), co-leading grassroots workshops. As an art organiser, he has contributed to exhibitions such as Of Spaces and Phases (2020) and Resituating Home(making): Hyper-Material Domesticity (2021).
His work is held in international collections, including Tiffany & Co.,The Lo and Behold Group, and the Japan Traffic Culture Association, and has been exhibited in Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. His practice has been featured in publications such as Tatler, AsiaArtPacific, ArtEquator, ArtReview, The Peak and Le Petit Journal, among others.