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Heman Chong (b. 1977, Malaysia) is an artist, curator, and writer based in Singapore. Chong creates texts, objects, installations, and situations in order to investigate the manner through which individuals form associations between objects in their environments. Chong graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. His work is included in the permanent collections of Art Sonje Center, Kadist Art Foundation, M+ Museum, The National Museum of Art Osaka, NUS Museum, Rockbund Art Museum and the Singapore Art Museum. Chong represented Singapore in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

Chong's works have been considered "archetypally conceptual" and recall frameworks of the 1960s in their potential to address collective visions of futuristic utopias. Based largely on books, Chong's works are striking in their creation of visual order as a means to draw out the "inevitably mnemonic nature of the conceptual object."

Exhibitions
Recent exhibitions include Art Sonje Center in Seoul (Never, A Dull Moment, 2015), South London Gallery (An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories, 2015), Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai (Ifs, Ands, Or Buts, 2016) and 72-13 in Singapore (Because, the Night, 2017).

Chong has also participated in the 1st Yinchuan Biennale (2016), 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), Asia Pacific Triennial 7 (2012), Performa 11 (2011), Momentum 6 (2011), Manifesta 8 (2010), 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008), SCAPE Christchurch Biennial (2006), Busan Biennale (2004) and 10th India Triennale (2000).

He is the co-director and founder (with Renée Staal) of The Library of Unread Books, which has been installed at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila and Casco projects in Utrecht.

As curator: http://rossirossi.com/contemporarynews/the-part-in-the-story-where-a-part-becomes-a-part-of-something-else-curated-by-heman-chong/

https://www.artforum.com/interviews/heman-chong-talks-about-moderation-s-in-hong-kong-and-rotterdam-46824

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/heman-chong/