Associate Artist Programme
(Punggol; 2026/27 Cycle)
OH! Open House’s Associate Artist Programme (AAP) supports artists to explore site-specific practices through long-term immersion in a neighbourhood.
Artists may work shifts at a local minimart, stay with residents, or collaborate with local organisations before producing any public work. These encounters allow ideas to emerge from lived experience rather than predetermined outcomes.
By taking artists beyond conventional studio and exhibition contexts, AAP creates space for sustained attention to people and place, thus generating new ways of surfacing alternative histories and overlooked perspectives.
AAP also brings artists into close collaboration with residents, making contemporary art relevant to everyday life while building new connections across the neighbourhood. By sharing experiences and knowledge, residents and artists shape how the neighbourhood's story is told together.
AAP (2026/27) is organised in collaboration with co-presenting partner, Art Outreach Singapore.
Artists may work shifts at a local minimart, stay with residents, or collaborate with local organisations before producing any public work. These encounters allow ideas to emerge from lived experience rather than predetermined outcomes.
By taking artists beyond conventional studio and exhibition contexts, AAP creates space for sustained attention to people and place, thus generating new ways of surfacing alternative histories and overlooked perspectives.
AAP also brings artists into close collaboration with residents, making contemporary art relevant to everyday life while building new connections across the neighbourhood. By sharing experiences and knowledge, residents and artists shape how the neighbourhood's story is told together.
AAP (2026/27) is organised in collaboration with co-presenting partner, Art Outreach Singapore.
Bridget Tay
(b.1989, Singapore) is an artist whose practice spans painting, spatial installation and social encounters. Across these forms, she explores how people inhabit environments, how attention circulates, and how meaning emerges through shared presence rather than spectacle.
Genevieve Ang
(b.1992, Singapore) is an artist and designer interested in unveiling the invisible architecture that underpins material culture and its systems. Exploring clay as the primary subject, she seeks to engage the material's diverse uses and intricate processes.
Rizman Putra(b.1978, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist from Singapore, working across performance, visual art, music, theatre and education. His practice explores identity, memory, ritual and popular culture through physical presence, humour and theatricality. As Tiramisu’s frontman, a member of NADA and a theatre performer, he creates eccentric, deeply human work.
Woong Soak Teng
(b.1994, Singapore) explores human control over the natural world. Her current research considers the body as nature, focusing on female reproductive autonomy and the modern dilemma of child-bearing. She holds a BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media.
International Artists
Goldie Poblador
(b.1987, Philippines) is a Filipina visual artist who creates multi-sensory installations that merge glass scent, sound and performance that address themes of ecology and decolonization as it relates to the emancipation of the female body. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is the first Filipino artist to be acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass.
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul (b. 1974, Thailand) is a Thai artist working across video, sound, installation, sculpture and archival forms. Emerging from political histories, personal archives and a long interspecies life with Beuys, an African grey parrot, her practice asks how other lives disturb the human terms through which history, knowledge and value become visible.
Artist Selection Process
Associate Artists are selected through a nomination process led by curator, John Tung. Applications are then reviewed by an independent Advisory Committee comprising this year of:
Applicants were assessed based on their artistic practice, interest in site-responsive work, and openness to working closely with communities.
The final cohort is selected for the diversity of artistic approaches and perspectives they bring to the programme, creating opportunities for dialogue, peer learning and collaboration throughout the residency.
Associate Artists are selected through a nomination process led by curator, John Tung. Applications are then reviewed by an independent Advisory Committee comprising this year of:
- Mae Anderson, Chairperson, Art Outreach
- Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Chief Curator, Singapore Art Museum
- Alecia Neo, Artist
- Ang Song Nian, Artist
Applicants were assessed based on their artistic practice, interest in site-responsive work, and openness to working closely with communities.
The final cohort is selected for the diversity of artistic approaches and perspectives they bring to the programme, creating opportunities for dialogue, peer learning and collaboration throughout the residency.
Programme
Curatorial Intensive (July 2026)
The programme begins with a two-week intensive, where artists are introduced to Punggol through talks, site visits and conversations with residents, businesses and community partners. Artists identify research interests and develop the focus of their residency.
Residency (August 2026 – January 2027)
Over six months, artists undertake independent research while building relationships within the neighbourhood. This includes neighbourhood immersions such as homestays or apprenticeships with local residents and businesses, regular curatorial mentoring, and public sharing sessions that invite feedback and dialogue throughout the process.
Public Presentation (March 2027)
The AAP culminates in a new site-responsive work or public programme developed through the residency. Artists also take part in public conversations reflecting on their research, process and experiences in the neighbourhood.
The programme begins with a two-week intensive, where artists are introduced to Punggol through talks, site visits and conversations with residents, businesses and community partners. Artists identify research interests and develop the focus of their residency.
Residency (August 2026 – January 2027)
Over six months, artists undertake independent research while building relationships within the neighbourhood. This includes neighbourhood immersions such as homestays or apprenticeships with local residents and businesses, regular curatorial mentoring, and public sharing sessions that invite feedback and dialogue throughout the process.
Public Presentation (March 2027)
The AAP culminates in a new site-responsive work or public programme developed through the residency. Artists also take part in public conversations reflecting on their research, process and experiences in the neighbourhood.