Education
2000 Master of Arts (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia.
1988 Associate Diploma (cum laude) in Interior Design, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles, USA.
1986 Bachelor (cum laude) of Fine Arts and Economics, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA.
Selected Exhibitions / Activities
EYD (meaning "Chaos" in Hebrew), The Substation, Singapore, 2001.
Feed the Birds, Orchard Gallery, Singapore, 2001.
Serene, Metropolis Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, 2001.
The New Collectibles, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2000.
The Indeterminate Tao, Foyer Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, 2000.
Contemplations of the Rock, RMIT Faculty Gallery, La Trobe Street, Australia, 2000.
MFA Show, 200 Gertrude Street, Australia, 1999.
The Fractured Reality, Swanston Art Space, Australia, 1999.
Art of Sumei, Hollywood Art Gallery, USA, 1987.
Art-robe, a solo exhibition of different mixed-media works revolving around the concept of constructed self-reality through our outer expressions, Lang Art Space, Claremont, USA, 1986.
Art at Scripps (exhibited 7 pieces), Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, USA, 1985.
Bombyx (exhibited 6 pieces), Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, USA, 1985.
Selected Awards / Collections
Artworks for Icon showflats, 10 Gopeng Street, Singapore.
Floral series - Carnations, Roses, Orchids and Water Lilies, National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore.
Created a design for a large 50ft x 25ft area rug with Singapore’s national flower and other orchids, Kent Ridge Guild House, Singapore.
Pastel Bouquet (10" x 10" pastel on paper), Ms Caren Tan, Singapore.
3 mini-works (6" x 6" pastel on paper), Ms Jack Starr, California, USA.
My Stuff (4ft x 4ft acrylic on canvas), Mr Jeffery William, Hermosa Beach, USA.
East meets West (4ft x 4ft acrylic on canvas), Mr Mike Urkowitz, Los Angeles, USA.
Designed a series of terra-cotta wall murals depicting ladies amongst lilies and other scupltures for a the stair-well, niches and poolside water features for a bungalow at Ewart Park, Mr and Mrs Chan, Singapore.
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About the artist / Artist's Statement
Sumei Chew is a painter with keen observations of life and its phenomena. Her works investigates the multi-layered reality of our manifested world and the inherent prejudices in our own perspectives. Her current works feature boldly coloured paintings that use water as a metaphor to convey hints of esoteric truths.