Bio

With architecture as a stepping off point, Akai Chew works in photography, maps, and installation art. Connecting such diverse projects are the common threads of urban memories, stratum of histories, and contested geographies. He has a background in urban planning, and architecture heritage. Outside of Singapore, he had exhibited in Johor Bahru, Perth, New Delhi, Bandung, Hobart and Launceston. Highlights of his career include showing work at Dark MOFO (2018), for Light to Night (2022), Singapore Archifest (2023), Singapore Heritage Fest (2025), Pattani Biennial (2026) and Singapore Night Festival (2026). He studied architecture at the University of Tasmania. His practice is engaged in a site specific, observation and research based methodology.

By revealing hidden multiplicity of place and the veneer of identity, the artist nudges us towards unexpected encounters with history.

Artist contact:

akai.c.studio (at) gmail.com
For private viewing, acquisition and commission work contact:
LOY Contemporary Art Gallery, Singapore
¹ 133 - 135 Tanglin Rd, Tudor Court, Singapore 247926
²  36 Armenian Street, #01-06, Singapore 179934
Jye-Miin LEE   |  jyemiin (at) loygallery.com 
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