Education
1993 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.
1990 Research on Women’s Liberation Movement and Feminist Art, Central St Martin’s College of Arts and Design, United Kingdom.
1988 Diploma in Print-making, Lasalle School of Art, Singapore.
Selected Exhibitions / Activities
Open Ends (Co-organizer, Co-curator and Participant) monthly talks on issues pertaining to performance art and an exhibition of documentation on performance art in Singapore, 2001.
Women Breaking Boundaries 21, exhibition and forum on networking, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, 2001.
A Woman in the Tree on the Hill, interdisciplinary, inter-cultural collaborative project (theatre, video art, sculpture, music, dance, performance art) with Wild Rice Theatre Company, Gong Myoung Percussion Ensemble, Korea, presented at Jubilee Theatre of Raffles Hotel in Singapore, Singapore International Arts Festival, Singapore, 2001.
Real Work-Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz, Germany, 2000.
Names Changed To Protect The Innocent, experimental performance event by The Necessary Stage, Singapore, 2000.
Tachikawa International Art Festival (Artist-in-Residence and Panel Speaker), Tokyo, Japan, 2000.
7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 2000.
Friday Event (Co-organizer and Speaker), a series of public forum on Contemporary Arts & Culture in Singapore, The Substation, Singapore, 1999 - 2000.
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Artist-in-Residence, Workshop and Panel Speaker), Fukuoka, Japan, 1999.
Rand Festival, Austria, 1999.
The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Panel Speaker in Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney), Queensland, Australia, 1999.
Women about Women (Curator, Organizer and Participant), Multi-media collaborative event with Singapore International Film Festival and Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore, 1998.
Artists Unlimited (Artist-in-Residence), Bielefeld, Germany, 1998.
Womanifesto (Participant of exhibition and Speaker of Women & Art forum), an international women’s art exchange in Bangkok, Thailand, 1997.
Cleveland International Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, USA, 1997.
Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Nagano, Japan, 1996.
Rapport, Singapore International Art Festival, traveling exchange exhibition, Singapore, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane, 1996.
Artists’ Project (Organizer and Participant), an interdisciplinary experimental collaborative project (filmmaker, writer, lighting designer, installation and performance artists), presented at Raw Theatre, The Substation, Singapore, 1994.
The 3rd Artists’ Regional Exchange (3rd ARX), Perth, Australia, 1992.
Awards\collections
Collections from Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Okinawa Prefecture Museum and other Private Collectors.
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About the artist / Artist's Statement
Amanda Heng is a full-time Art Practitioner. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach to her art practice. Her works deal with clashing of eastern and western values, traditions and gender roles in the context of a multi-cultural and fast-changing society of Singapore. Recently she focuses on the issues of communication and human relationships in urban condition, often working in collaboration with people from all fields (art and non art), especially people of different cultural backgrounds. Amanda was involved in founding the Artists’ Village, the first artists-run space in Singapore in 1988. She is also actively involved in conceptualising, curating, organising and participating in exhibitions and public forums, conducting workshops and lecturing in contemporary art.