Grantee Database

HUANG Wanshan & LI Zhiyong

• 2026
• Visual Art
• China to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore

To continue research on “Overseas Chinese farms” that the Chinese government established in the 1950s for ethnic Chinese who were forcibly relocated from Southeast Asia to Mainland China. Huang and Li will examine the layered histories of Chinese diaspora communities in Southeast Asia, forced to relocate to farms in China between the 1950s-1970s. They will document how these specific migration patterns have shaped cultural preservation and identity formation. Their fellowship will focus on archival research at museums and Chinese clan associations, interviewing local Chinese community members, participation in events, and exchanging knowledge with Southeast Asia-based scholars and artists. Their research aims to address both the preservation and evolution of Chinese culture across global contexts.

Adachi Tomomi

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2025
• Music
• Japan to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

To explore experimental music practices, connections between artists, and their relationship to traditions in Southeast Asia by engaging with local musicians and organizers.

• 2009
• Music
• Japan to United States

To travel to the United States for 6 months to research the contemporary style of "Intermedia" music.

Jialu Chen

• 2024
• Visual Art
• China to Malaysia, Singapore

To expand her research into the history and material culture of the "self-combing sisters," women who left Mainland China (mostly Guangdong Province) in the early 1900s to work in Southeast Asia to support families back home.

Celine Katzman

• 2024
• Curation
• United States to Singapore

To research social and political conditions impacting contemporary artists working in new media, performance, and alternative education in Singapore.

Kristen Rudisill

• 2024
• Dance
• United States to Malaysia, Singapore

To travel to Singapore and Malaysia and learn how the popular gaana street dance style contributes to the construction of Tamil identity within the local community.

Lydia Yee

• 2024
• Visual Art
• United States to Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

To undertake a comparative study of the influence of popular and vernacular cultures in East and Southeast Asia on contemporary art.

Qianxi "Chelsea" Liu

• 2023
• Curation
• China to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand

To consolidate Liu's current research on the interactive relationship between China and East Asia in terms of its artistic and cultural production, as well as its cross-cultural role in the late 20th century when globalization first took firm hold.

Hung-Fei Wu

Country / Region:
• Taiwan

• 2022
• Curation
• Taiwan to Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore

To continue building on extensive research on ecological art from Europe to Asia by conducting interviews and case studies in Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

• 2020
• Grant to Bamboo Curtain Studio

Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts

• 2021
• Visual Art
• Taiwan to Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, United States

For an online program bringing together specialists in the conservation of contemporary art to lay the groundwork for a collaborative approach to developing conservation strategies for the region.

Santiago Maria Sofia Amparo

Country / Region:
• Philippines

• 2020
• Museum Studies
• Philippines to Singapore

An 8-month Individual Fellowship for a hybrid program on online and in-person to research into the practices of memorializing sensitive histories through museum programming, using Cambodia as a case study. This project will initially be conducted online, followed by a four-month research trip to Cambodia, and culminating in shared documentation and learnings through the Museum Collective PH platform.

Ana Tamula

Country / Region:
• Philippines

• 2020
• Museum Studies
• Philippines to Singapore

An 8-month Individual Fellowship for a hybrid program on online and in-person to research into the practices of memorializing sensitive histories through museum programming, using Cambodia as a case study. This project will initially be conducted online, followed by a four-month research trip to Cambodia, and culminating in shared documentation and learnings through the Museum Collective PH platform.

Gabriel Kuperman

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2019
• Film/Video
• Laos to Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

to research the contemporary film environment in Southeast Asia and build the Luang Prabang Film Festival's network in the region