ABOUT
Kimberly Shen is a curator and educator based in Singapore. Her practice research engages with feminist thinking and consciousness, affirming the gendered gestures and vocabularies that transcend spaces and institutions of knowledge. She has worked extensively with emerging and established artists from Singapore and Southeast Asia, foregrounded by embodied practices and feminist approaches. Selected curatorial projects include: Unpacked by Melati Suryodarmo (2023), ShanghART Gallery; across the way by Salty Xie Jie Ng (2023), starch; While She Quivers (2022), Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) by Susie Wong (2020), Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film; Image+Body: exhibition and performance (2018), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; and Residency as method (2015), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. She has authored curatorial essays, alongside writing for exhibition catalogues and artist monographs that expand feminist and practice-based discourses.
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She co-founded ellipsis journal (2013 - 2015), a London/Singapore print publication distributed at both local and international art book fairs, and established dblspce (2021 - present), a Singapore-based independent studio and incubator dedicated to artistic practice. In recognition of her curatorial practice, she was awarded the IMPART Art Prize (Curator Category) in 2019. She holds a MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, supported by the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate).
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Currently the Programme Leader (BA Fine Art) at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, her teaching integrates practice-based research and curatorial methods, with a focus on collective processes and positioning artistic practice within wider cultural and theoretical frameworks. Previously, she held roles at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and the National Heritage Board, contributing to curatorial programming, communications, and public engagement.
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She is presently pursuing a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL where her research examines feminist curatorial methodologies in Singapore and Southeast Asia, with particular attention to practices of care, knowledge-making, and the development of alternative, sustainable infrastructures for artistic and curatorial work.