BIOGRAPHY
Singapore-based cultural worker, Masuri Mazlan, graduated with a BA in Fine Art (First Class Honours) accredited by Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2018.
He was a recipient of the prestigious Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Scholarship (2016), which recognises his artistic ability and numerous contributions to society. He has volunteered 300 hours to the society. He was a recipient of the Japan Traffic Culture Association's prestigious 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award (2017).
He was also conferred the 19th Winston Oh Travelogue Research Award (2018) and the MENDAKI Anugerah Cemerlang (2019) for achieving the top percentile of his cohort. He was awarded the NAC LASALLE Community Arts Mentorship Programme (CAMP) (2019) to co-lead grassroots art workshops. He was part of the curatorial team for the recent exhibitions, With You Here: Between Defamiliarization, Objectifs Centre and Resituating Home(work): Hyper-Material Domesticity in conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2021.
He exhibited locally and regionally at Pulse Gallery, Phloen Chit, TH (2022), Somewhere in Bedok blooms the blushing rouge of embroidered roses, Singapore Pavilion, Dubai, UAE (2022), and International TAKIFUJI Art, Meiji Kinenkan; JP (2018), +Project BETWEEN, Gallery Tomo, JP (2017). He was featured in various print and online media such as Tatler, ELLE, Female, The Peak, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific, ArtsEquator, The Artling, and Nenkansha New Art Newspaper.
ARTIST STATEMENT
His cross-dimensional practices explore the potential of networks that connect painterly objects, photographic structures, and installation work. His work engages with the affective power of materiality and the transformative potential of everyday objects into a plethora of art-making.
This interest is informed by the disruption of the boundaries between art and the domestic sphere, using the expansive possibilities of non-representational forms to challenge and subvert these limiting binaries.
Through his use of industrial materials such as silicone, polyurethane, and gypsum, his sculptural paintings and objects explore the intersection of identity politics and queer aesthetics, drawing inspiration from the domestic sphere as a site of resistance and subversion.
AWARDS, GRANTS, NOMINATIONS, AND OTHER RECOGNITIONS
2021 Top 5 Finalist for Pulse Awards, Photography Category, Thailand
2021 National Arts Council Tote Board Arts Fund
2021 Objectifs Curator Open Call for Tekad Kolektif X Elaine Thanya Marie Teo
2021 National Arts Council Singapore Art Week Grant
2020 National Youth Council Young ChangeMakers Grant
2019 National Arts Council Presentation and Participation Grant
2019 National Arts Council Community Arts Mentorship Programme (CAMP)
2018 Anugerah Cemerlang by MENDAKI Academic Excellence Award (University)
2018 Nominated for MENDAKI Special Achievement Award for Excellence (Non-Academic)
2018 19th Winston Oh Travelogue Scholarship Award (Research)
2017 CCC/CDC - Arts Institution Bursary
2017 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award (Prize For Excellence), Japan
2016 Nominated for 37th International TAKIFUJI Art Award
2016 Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award
2016 CCC/CDC-Arts Institution Bursary
2015 CCC/CDC-Arts Institution Bursary
2012 Brigadier General Commander’s Gold Coin, Singapore Armed Forces
2010 Silver Award, English Drama, Singapore Youth Festival
2009 Gold Award, Angklung Kulintang Ensemble, Singapore Youth Festival
2008 Bronze Award, English Drama, Singapore Youth Festival
2007 Ministry of Education Scholarship
2006 EAGLES Award, Ministry of Education
2006 Ministry of Education Scholarship
2005 2nd Prize NEA Fashion Show, National Environment Agency
2005 Bronze Award, Malay Dance, Singapore Youth Festival
2004 EAGLES Award, Ministry of Education
2004 Ministry of Education Scholarship
2003 Silver Award, Malay Dance, Singapore Youth Festival
2003 Ministry of Education Scholarship
1999 Good Progress
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITION
2022 Emak Kata Jangan Jadi Seniman, Art Porters, Singapore
2019 Softstrong, Coda Culture, Golden Mile Complex, Singapore
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023 Serving Thots, UltraSuperNew, Singapore
2023 Sightseeing Sculpture: The Sky, The Land, & The Sea, Sculpture 2056, Biennale 2023, Singapore
2022 Pameran Poskad, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
2022 Emerge, VaultV, Puck Provisions, Singapore
2022 It is beautiful because of you and me, Supperhouse, Singapore
2022 The Non Season, Design Orchard, Singapore
2022 Textures Sing Lit Festival - The Great Escape, Oasis Terraces, Singapore
2022 Textures Sing Lit Festival - The Great Escape, The Arts House, Singapore
2022 SAW in Dubai, The Singapore Pavilion, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 The Non Season, Design Orchard, Singapore
2022 Somewhere in Bedok blooms the blushing rouge of embroidered roses, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
2021 Pulse Awards Exhibition, Pulse Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2021 With You Here Between: Defamiliarisation, Objectifs, Singapore
2021 Only Losers Left Alive (Love Songs For The End Of The World) Part II, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2021 The Closing Exhibition by the Artling X Straits Clan, Mandala Club
2021 OH!2021 For the House; Against the House (DUO Collection), Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
2021 Resituating Home(Work): Hyper-Material Domesticity, Singapore Art Week, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
2020 Blackboard Schemes, Substation Gallery, Singapore
2020 New Beginnings, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
2020 Where the Sidewalk Ends, Chan+Hori Contemporary, Singapore
2020 Opening Party Show, Coda Culture, Singapore
2020 Emerging: Collecting Singapore Contemporary - Selections from the DUO Collection, The Private Museum, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
2020 Of Spaces and Phases, 66 Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
2019 UNTAPPED, Visual Arts Development Association, Chan+Hori Contemporary, Special Exhibition Partner, F1 Pit Building, Singapore
2019 The Salon, Telok Ayer Arts Club, Singapore
2019 One More Folded Sunset: Travelogue 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2019 The Raya Show (Pameran Istimewa Raya), Coda Culture, Golden Mile Complex, Singapore
2019 1961 2nd Year Anniversary Birthday Celebration,1961 Gallery, Straits Clan, Singapore
2018 Art Moves Season IV, the connoisseur concerto, The Gallery, Circular Road & International Building, Singapore
2018 What the stars are telling us, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2018 The Lasalle Show, Gallery 1, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore 2018 A Dive, Splendid!, Winstedt Campus, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2018 To leave home is already half the journey, Padmasana Foundation, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2018 Melange, Project & Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2017 +Project Between, International Group Exhibition, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan
2017 38th International Takifuji Art Award, Meiji Kinenkan, Tokyo, Japan
2017 One Night Only, Winstedt Campus, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2016 One Night Only, Winstedt Campus, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2016 Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
COMMISSIONED WORK
2022 The Non Season, Design Orchard, Singapore
2022 Textures Sing Lit Festival - The Great Escape
2021 Unho(m)mely Desires I, With You Here Between: Defamiliarization, Objectifs
2021 Unho(m)mely Desires I, National Arts Council, Singapore Art Week
2021 It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea, OH! Open House, Singapore Art Week
2020 Skinning Series, National Arts Council, Singapore Art Week
2020 Happy Birthday To Those Who Celebrate Alone, Streets of Hope, National Arts Council, Singapore
2017 Otherside, UNCHARTED in collaboration with Tristan Lim, Urban Street Art, Singapore Street Festival, Bugis Junction, Singapore
CURATORIAL WORK
2021 Assistant Curator, With You Here Between: Defamiliarisation, Objectifs, Singapore
2021 Assistant Curator, Resituating Home(Work): Hyper-Material Domesticity, Singapore Art Week, 65 Aliwal Street, Singapore
2020 Curator, Of Spaces & Phases, Singapore Art Week, 66 Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore
2018 Co-curator, Melange, Project Space and Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
ART RESIDENCY
2021 The Creative Studio presented by Straits Clan/Mandala Club & The Artling, Singapore (5 months)
2020-21 c/residency at Cuturi Gallery, 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore (3 months)
MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME
2020-2019 Art for the Aged, Kamini Ramachandran, National Arts Council, Singapore
2018 Melange, Tamares Goh, Institute Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2010 Oblivion & Crimson Sun, Alicia De Silva Joyce, Angklung Instrument Player, Angklung Kulintang Ensemble, Singapore
2008 The Colour Bar, Actor, Michael Corbidge, English Theatre, Singapore
COLLABORATION WORK (PERFORMANCE ART)
2020 Performer, Can’t you see there’s nothing left for me by Ezzam Rahman, DE:VOTED, INSTINC, Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
2018 Performer, ArtScience Late: your ghosts from yesteryears visits me once in a while by Ezzam Rahman and Nabillah Jalal, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2018 Artist and Transcriptionist, Art Community Project: Crossing The Straits - To Leave Home is Already Half The Journey in collaboration with Padmasana Foundation
2017 Performer, Arational taxonomies by Zarina Muhammad and Damaris Carlisle, Project Space and Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
2017 Performer, INTERROGATING PERFORMANCE in collaboration with Australian ELISION ensemble, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2016 Performer, Mythologies by Jack Tan and Susan Sentler, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2016 Performer, Tactile Eating in collaboration with David Szanto, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
APPRENTICESHIPS, ASSISTANTSHIPS, AND GALLERY WORK
2023-16 Assistant to Professor Rajee Vissa, Advanced Management Programme, INSEAD Business School
2023-2022 Artologist, Art Porters
2022-19 Muralist and Workshop Educator, Pathlight School & Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore, Boon Lay Gardens Primary School,
2022 Gallery Sitter & Photographer, Fated Love Sky, Gillman Barracks
2022 Gallery Sitter, Stimming, Art Outreach Singapore, Gillman Barracks
2020 Archivist, 13th to 19th Century Rococo and paintings and artifacts for a private collection
2020 Artist Assistant, The Foot Beneath The Flower, The Emancipation by Johann M.F., National Technological University
2020 Artist Assistant, Interviewer & Transcriptionist, Stories of the Sea by Hazel Lim, Nagore Dargah
2020 Artist Assistant, Everything But Gold by Adeline Kueh, 2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum
2019 Art Handler for Jimmy Ong, AWARE Singapore, Back to the Future, The Time Traveller’s Ball, Shangri-La
2019 Art Handler for Tehching Hsieh, Sam Hsieh 93078-92979, Coda Culture
2019 Gallery Assistant, Some Other Matter by Irfan Hendrian, Aloft Hermès, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
2019-16 Artist Assistant for Rajee Vissa, Freudenberg BLP Leadership Training, INSEAD Business School
2019 Art Assistant, Pathlight School
2019 Workshop Assistant, Passion Arts - Garden of Heart Festival, Artisan's Han
2019 Artist Assistant, Ocean in Motion by Mithra Jeevananthan, Kult Gallery and Studio, Resort World Sentosa
2019 Gallery Intern at Jalan Besar Salon
2019 Artist Assistant, கடை (Shop) by Divaagar, Singapore Heritage Festival
2018 Gallery Sitter, Passing Through by Alexis Harding, Peninsular
2018 Artist Assistant, Beneath Tide Running Forest by Sai Hua Kuan and Dr. Wang Ruobing, Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Museum
2018-19 Gallery Assistant, (Un)filtered Reflections by Noriko Ambe, Alot Hermès, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
2018 Transcriptionist, 5 Rehearsal of a Wedding by Kray Chen, Singapore Art Week
2018-16 Writer, Praxis Press, LASALLE College of the Arts
2017-18 Gallery Assistant, Oneness by Minjung Kim, Alot Hermès, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
2016-17 Gallery Assistant, Here From Here by Agathe De Bailliencourt, Alot Hermès, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
2016 Gallery Assistant, How To Disappear Into A Rainbow, Aloft Hermès, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
2015 Gallery Assistant, Hermès Little Room of Wonders, Asian Civilisations Museum
2014 Museum Hospitality Officer, National Heritage Board, National Museum of Singapore
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WORK
2021 Volunteer, 为什么要走出黑暗 (Walk Darkness Walk) by La Tristesse Opera, Tang Da Wu, National Gallery Singapore
2020-2019 Community Artist, Art for the Aged, Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society
2020-18 Head Volunteer, Coda Culture
2018 Art Handler, TCC ART MOVES IV
2018 Volunteer, annual artwork stocktaking exercise by Richard Lim, CapitaLand
2018 Volunteer, Other Tongues Festival by Pooja Nansi
2018 Volunteer, not the norm: on conjugal blisses and misses by Teng Yen Hui and Richard Lim, Goodman Arts Centre
2016 Performer, Mythologies by Jack Tan and Susan Sentler, Yeo Workshop
2010 Befriender, Toa Payoh’s Old Folks’ Home
2009 Volunteer, National Poetry Theatre Competition, National University of Singapore
2008 Volunteer, National Environment Agency
2006 Group facilitator and fundraiser, Lions Home For The Aged
2005 Befriender, The Disabled Aged at the Moral Home
2004-03 Volunteer, Bedok South Secondary School
FUNDRAISING WORK
2020 Donated artwork to Samaritans of Singapore fundraising efforts for suicide ideators organised by mikabymika
PUBLISHED TEXTS
Praxis Press 12th Edition, Aug 6, 2018. McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of Fine Arts The 38th International Art Award Winner: Muhammad Masuri Bin Mazlan, Meiji Kinenkan, Tokyo, Japan ISBN: 978-981-09-5767-4
Praxis Press, 11th Edition, July 26, 2017. McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of Fine Arts Interview with Cassandra Koh, Multitudes in Carnival, Esplanade ISBN: 978-981-09-5767-4
Praxis Press 10th Edition, Aug 5, 2016. McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Interview with Khairullah Rahim, If You Think I Winked, I did, FOST Gallery, ISBN: 978-981-09-5767-4