Kray Chen
WORKS EXHIBITIONS PROFILE
Kray Chen (b. 1987, Singapore) completed his MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (in partnership with Goldsmith’s College of Art). Chen’s practice largely deals with the lived experience and body politics, reflecting on the body and the self within the economical machine, observing the fissures and ruptures of the psyche arising from the parallel quests to progress and to conserve.
His solo exhibitions include Hot Temple, FOST Gallery, Singapore (2020); 5 Rehearsals of a Wedding, Objectifs Chapel Gallery, Singapore (2018); It’s a Set Situation, Grey Projects, Singapore (2016); and 1st Prize, The Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore (2013). Group shows include Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2025); Tokyo Biennale (2023); Singapore Biennale (2019), the inaugural Bangkok Art Biennale (2018), China Remixed Initiative, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (2017), The Pleasure of Improbable Placements, La Casa De Cultura Des Bernardes, Spain (2014), Paradis sans promesse, FRAC Des Pays De La Loire, France (2015). Chen was commissioned to mount A Little Bead of Work by National Gallery Singapore during the Light to Night Festival at Arts House Lawn (2025); and When the odd ones out get in by the Singapore Art Museum for the hoarding around its Bras Basah building site in 2021.
Kray has participated in the NTU-CCA Residency, Singapore (2016); the FRAC Des Pays De La Loire Residency, Nantes, France (2015); and the Hangar Residency, Barcelona, Spain (2014). In 2017, Chen was conferred the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore. The award represents Singapore’s highest award for young art practitioners, aged 35 years and below in the year of the award, whose artistic achievements and commitment have distinguished them among their peers.