2025 Pixel-Flesh, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2025 Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her, Sundaram Tagore, SG
2024 Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2024 World Film Festival BKK
2024 Shadow Self, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taipei
2024 Queering AI: Jetsam, metaLAB FU Berlin
2024 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
2024 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, REDCAT, LA
2024 Arkipel - Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival
2024 Play & Loop VI, Blindspot Gallery, HK
2024 Sad Captions: Everything Has Been Washed Away; I Can Only Write 'Sad'..., SeMA Bunker, Seoul
2024 Biennale Arte, Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Venice, IT
2024 Screening, Queer East Festival, London
2023 Love Letter (with AFSAR), How to Become Collective(s), YPC Space, Seoul
2023 Proof of Personhood, Singapore Art Museum, SG
2023 Dreaming of Home, Leslie Lohman Museum, NY
2022 YOUNG BODY, Workshopables, Supernormal, SG
2022 YOUNG BODY, Vector#2, The Esplanade, SG
2021 The Two, To Gather, Venice Architecture Biennale, Singapore Pavilion, Venice
2020 Ma Jie, Margins, Singapore International Photography Festival, ArtScience Museum, SG
2020 How They Love, Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London, UK (Virtual)
2020 The Lesson, Last Minute Group Show, SG
2020 All In Her Day's Work, Touch Me, Touch Me Not, The Substation SAD Bar, SG
2019 How She Loves, Parallax by Authority Collective, Photoville NYC, NY
2019 How She Loves, Exactly Foundation residency showcase, Objectifs, SG
2019 How She Loves, Parallax by Authority Collective, Instagram HQ, NY
2019 Room, Curator's Lab, Jakarta International Photo Festival
2019 The Liminal, Queer Asia, The British Museum and Paul Webley Wing, SOAS University of London
2019 How She Loves, Annenberg Space for Photography, Parallax by Authority Collective, Photoville LA
2019 How She Loves, &PROUD Film Festival, Yangon
2019 How She Loves, Projected, International Center of Photography, NY
2018 Room, Women in Photography, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, SG
2018 Room, Singapore International Photography Festival
2018 Learning to Leave, No Place Like Home, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
2018 Pretty Butch, Taipei Arts Festival
2018 Room, International Photo Festival Leiden
2018 All In Her Day's Work, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, ION Art Gallery, SG (solo)
2017 Room, Laatikkomo, Finland
2017 Room, Photoville, NY
2016 Ma Jie, Pop-up Noise: Soul-Searching, Kreta Ayer Square, SG
2016 Room, If Home was a Word for Illusion, The Substation, SG
PERFORMANCES & LECTURE-PERFORMANCES
2024 (repurposed audio) Oceanic Tides, Machinic Flows (with Thao Ho), liminal channels, THF Radio, Törhaus, Berlin
2023 Oceanic Tides, Machinic Flows (with Thao Ho), The Diasporic Ordinary, Humboldt University, Berlin
2023 in the shadow of the cosmic, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2023 Critical History of Technology (with AFSAR) Matter of Flux Festival, Berlin
2022 pixel-flesh, code-bone, Goethe-Institut, Singapore
2021 YOUNG BODY, SCOPE#11 by Dance Nucleus, Singapore
2020 Where You Move Me Most, The Substation, Singapore
2020 Last Minute Group Show, Singapore (with nor)
RESIDENCIES
2024 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (ongoing)
2022 Goethe Institut Singapore, Singapore
2021 Dance Nucleus x Thinkers’ Studio, Singapore x Taiwan, Virtual
2020 Asia-Europe Foundation Virtual360 Konnect, Virtual
2019 GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2018 Exactly Foundation, Singapore
COLLECTIONS
KADIST
Sunpride Foundation
Vega Foundation
Morgan Stanley
National Museum of Singapore
SELECTED ACCOLADES
2025 Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year”
2024 VISIO - European programme on artists’ moving images
2023 Prestige’s 40 under 40
2023 Queerscope film funding “A IS FOR ANDRA”
2023 Flaherty Online Fellowship
2023 Oberhausen Seminar
2020 PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant, Honourable Mention
2019 Forbes Asia 30 under 30 - The Arts
SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA
2024 Meet Charmaine Poh, the Singapore artist examining social relations and issues through art, Grazia Singapore
2024 傅秀璇被选为德意志银行2025“年度艺术家”, Art Forum China
2024 Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh named Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2025, The Straits Times
2024 Charmaine Poh named Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year”, ArtAsiaPacific
2024 Singapore’s got talent: Venice Biennale has given Charmaine Poh wider geographical reach, The Straits Times
2024 25 Essential AI Artworks, ARTnews
2024 Standouts from the 2024 Venice Biennale’s Foreigners Everywhere, Hyperallergic
2024 The Venice Biennale’s Foreigners Everywhere has global aims. But it’s at its strongest when it looks inside, not out, Cultured Mag
2024 Profile: New Currents, ArtAsiaPacific May/June
2024 Former Child Star Charmaine Poh Uses AI To Confront the Tension Between Visibility and Privacy, Art in America
2024 Queer art: from canvas to club, and the spaces between, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Frances Lincoln & Quardo (print)
2024 AFSAR, Matter of Flux, Art Laboratory Berlin (print)
2024 Technology meets tradition in Singapore, ArtBasel
2024 In Singapore, Artists Lift the Lid on Hidden Technologies, Ocula
2023 Dreaming of home, for queer art, ArtReview
2023 How queer artists are exploring notions of home, AnOther Magazine
2023 A portrait of home through the queer gaze, Huck
2023 At the Leslie-Lohman, queer artists transform our understanding of home, Artsy
2023 In the unsettling Proof of Personhood show, artists interrogate ideas of technology, identity, gender, truth, Plural Art Mag
2023 Singapore Art Museum opens new gallery with show on deep fakes and personal identity in AI age, The Straits Times
2023 Women Photograph: What We See: Women and non-binary perspectives through the lens, Quardo (print)
2023 GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, Cyberfeminism Index listing
2022 Queering The Dot, ArtAsiaPacific
2022 Room, Suspect Journal, Singapore Unbound
2022 Charmaine Poh: in the eye of the observer, Container Love
2021 On Holding Space, Objects Lessons Space, Singapore (Print)
2021 Kin, Unlirice Magazine, #00 Domains, Japan (Print)
2021 PHMuseum:Performances of Queer Identity and Femininity in Singapore
2021 Lineal Asia: Retitled from “How She Loves” to “How They Love”
2020 The Lesson, Female Magazine (Print)
2020 The Lesson, The White Book (Print)
2020 Room, A Magazine for Young Girls (Print)
2020 How They Love, CNN Style
2020 How They Love, Artsy
2020 i-D Asia bedroom portraits
2019 Cuntemporary, The Liminal in Queer Asia
2019 Seenthesis:Visual Literacy Through Singapore Photography
2018 How She Loves, WePresent
2018 PHMuseum, On Womanhood
2018 Singapore Art Book Fair - 21Creatives
2018 Arthop
2018 All in Her Day’sWork, Channel News Asia
2017 Close Enough, Missy Magazine, December Issue (Print)
2017 Room, New York Times, Lens
2017 Room, Fisheye Magazine,
2017 Female Magazine
2017 Life From Different Angles, The Business Times
TALKS, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2024 Future Ancestors: MMCA residency with Jo-Lene Ong and Im Youngzoo, Seoul
2024 Cosmic Dialogues on Fiction Writing (with AFSAR), A Home for Something Unknown, NBK, Berlin
2024 Non-conference: what if museums changed our notion of technology? (with AFSAR), ZKM, Karlsruhe
2023 NOX: Impulse Lectures (with AFSAR), LAS Art Foundation, Berlin
2023 The Measurement of Being, Kaum x Unthaitled, Sinematranstopia, Berlin
2022 Artist talk, Vector #2, The Esplanade, Singapore
2022 How To Be A Little Girl On The Internet, Workshopables, Supernormal, Singapore
2021 Guest speaker with Seng Yu-Jin, Artsplaining, National Gallery Singapore
2021 Guest speaker with Mengwen Cao, Strudel Media, Virtual
2021 Panel speaker, LSE Photography, Virtual
2020 Panel speaker, SVR: (Re)Forming Methodologies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Virtual
2020 Lab speaker, 2021 EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) conference, Virtual
2020 Speaker, Adobe MAX,Virtual
2019 Panel speaker, Pride and Less Prejudice, Pinkfest, The Straits Clan, Singapore
2019 Panel speaker, Platform, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
2019 Guest speaker, Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, The KL Journal Hotel, KL, Malaysia
2018 Panel speaker, Institute of Policy StudiesRoundtable on the Arts, Singapore
2018 Panel speaker, Women in PhotographySlideshow Q&A, Objectifs Centre for Photography and
Filmmaking
2018 Guest speaker, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design, and Media, BFA
Photography, Singapore
2018 Speaker, Singapore International Photography Festival artist talk, Singapore
2018 Speaker, How She Loves artist talk, Exactly Foundation, Singapore
2018 Speaker, All in Her Day's Work artist talk, NAFA and LASALLE students, Singapore
PODCAST
2023 Dreaming of Home, with Whiskey Chow and Gemma Rolls-Bentley
2022 Soma Stories, host, with Artwave
TEACHING
2022 Lecturer, Year 3 students, Documentary Practice, NTU ADM, Singapore
2021 Lecturer, Year 4 students, Interdisciplinary Studies, NTU ADM, Singapore
2021 Mentor, Migrant Workers Photography Festival, Singapore
2017 Mentor, Shooting Home Youth Awards, Objectifs, Singapore
CURATORIAL2023 Devoted to Betrayal (with Ezekiel Morgan), Berlin
EDUCATION
Current PhD candidate, Freie Universität Berlin, under Dr. Annette Jael Lehmann
2019 M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
2013 B.A. International Relations (International Security), Minor. Communications and Media Studies,
Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
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