AMANDA HENG LIANG NGIM 王良吟
b. 1951, works and lives in Singapore
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| 1951 | Born in Singapore |
| 1988 | Co-founded The Artists Village |
| 1999 | Founded the first artist-run women's collective in Singapore, Women in the Arts (WITA), |
| 1988 | Diploma in Printmaking, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore |
| 1990 | Research on Women’s Liberation Movement and Feminist Art, Central St Martins College of Arts and Design, UK |
| 1993 | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia |
| 2023 | Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame, Singapore |
| 2020 | 12th Benesse Prize, Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore |
| 2010 | Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore |
| 1993 | The Watt’s His Name Award (Sculpture/Time-based work), Curtain University of Technology, Perth, Australia |
| Solo Exhibitions | (Selected | | | All) |
| 2026 | A Pause, Singapore Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
| 2017 | Amanda Heng: We Are the World – These Are Our Stories, STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore |
| 2011 | Amanda Heng: Speak To Me, Walk With Me, Singapore Art Museum @ 8Q, Singapore |
| Group Exhibitions | (Selected | | | All) |
| 2026 | 16th Gwangju Biennale, You Must Change Your Life, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea |
| Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore | |
| 2024 | 4th Bangkok Art Biennale, Nurture Gaia, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea | |
| Presentation of Works by Benesse Prize Artists, Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan | |
| 2021 | Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | Singapore Biennale 2019, Every Step in the Right Direction, National Gallery Singapore; Gillman Barracks; Esplanade Tunnel etc., Singapore |
| 2018 | Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s – 1990s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984–2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2008 | The Artists Village: 20 Years On, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| 2006 | Singapore Biennale 2006: Belief, Singapore |
| 2003 | The HouseWORK Project, Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore |
| 2001 | 1st Women’s Performance Art Festival, Osaka, Japan |
| 2000 | One Closer to the Other, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba |
| 1999 | Womanifesto II – The 2nd International Women’s Art Exchange, Saranrom Park, Bangkok, Thailand |
| The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 1997 | Womanifesto I – An International Women’s Art Exchange, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| 1995 | Chiang Mai Social Installation, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| 1993 | Artists' General Assembly, 5th Passage Art Space, Parkway Parade Shopping Centre, Singapore |
| 1992 | The Space, Singapore Festival of Arts, Hong Bee Warehouse, Singapore |
| 1991 | Women and Their Art, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore |
| Projects | (Selected | | | All) |
| 2025 | Let’s Chat Further and Retired Singirl, digital art commissions, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore |
| 2018 | M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Let’s Walk, Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film etc., Singapore |
| 2010 | Future of Imagination 6, Sculpture Square, Singapore |
| 2009 | Singirl, Dresden, Germany |
| 2000 | Singirl Online Project, ongoing project, |
| 1999 | Let's Walk, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore |
| 1996 | Let's Chat, The Substation, Singapore |
| Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan | |
| Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates | |
| National Gallery Singapore, Singapore | |
| Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA | |
| Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| Okinawa Prefecture Museum, Japan, Okinawa, Japan | |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
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