Self-Portrait (Dog-Human)
2011 | Watercolour | 230 x 150 cm
 
 

artist statement
Jason Wee's practice pulls complex narratives out of specific events and spaces, generating an array of different, sometimes conflicting objects and ways of knowing. These spaces may be an island, a school, cinema, museum or home, and the events may be a moment of personal or collective history. For him, these narratives are knotty conundrums, generative of enigma, idealism and failure.
 
JASON WEE
artist profile
Jason Wee *(b.1978) is the 2009 Singapore Art Exhibition Voters' Prize winner and the 2008 Young Artist Award winner for visual arts in Singapore. Working mainly in installation, photography, and digital art, he has participated in group exhibitions like Paradise is elsewhere (Berlin and Stuttgart) and 8Q-Rate: School (Singapore Art Museum). His installation ‘1987’ was exhibited at the first Singapore Biennale in 2006. He completed a residency at Artspace Sydney in 2007 and was artist-in-residence at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts in 2008. He was a creator-in-residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in 2009 and is a 2010 Dean's Merit Scholar at Harvard University.