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Charmaine Poh (b. 1990) is an artist from Singapore working across media, moving image, and performance to peel apart, interrogate, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity.
She has exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, Blindspot Gallery, REDCAT LA, Huis Marseille, and the 60th Venice Biennale - Foreigners Everywhere, among others. In 2019, she was one of Forbes Asia’s 30 under 30 in the arts. Her work has been collected by Vega Foundation, Sunpride Foundation, and KADIST. She was recently named Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2025 and is a recipient the Villa Romana Prize 2026.
Based between Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR).
Photo Credits: Mengwen Cao.
Ongoing PhD candidate, Freie Universität Berlin, under Dr. Annette Jael Lehmann
2019 MA Visual and Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
2013 BA International Relations, Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University, USA
2025 Being a Girl*!?, From Panel Painting to Social Media, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
2025 Notes from the Underground part 2, Wet Snow, SAC Bucharest
2025 Likenesses, Goethe-Institut New York City (two-person exhibition)
2025 Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (solo)
2025 Believe in a River, Lotus Art Space, Art Macau
2025 The Studiengalerie 1.357, Goethe University, Frankfurt
2025 Attention is All I Need, Virtual HEK Basel
2025 Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her, Sundaram Tagore, SG
2024 Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2024 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, REDCAT, LA
2024 Shadow Self, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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
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
2025 Beijing Queer Film Festival
2025 Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, DC
2025 AN(8X) Festival, Berlin
2025 CiLENS, Asian Queers Reunited, Sinematranstopia, Berlin
2025 An Open Ending: TFAM Screening Project, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei 2025 Unconventional Education: Queerness as a
Possibility, Amant, New York City 2025 May All The Little Girls Win, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
2025 Economies of Love, e-flux Screening Room, New York City
2025 On the Shores of..., Art Central Hong Kong
2025 Avatars, proxies, and digital twins, Tate Modern, London
2025 Family Matters. Figures of Allegiance and Release, LMU Munich
2025 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
2025 Pixel-Flesh, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2024 World Film Festival Bangkok
2024 Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taipei
2024 Queering AI: Jetsam, metaLAB FU Berlin
2024 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
2024 Arkipel - Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2024 Queer East Festival, London
2025 Somewhere between Asian and British,, with Li-Ming Hu, Centre for Performance Research, NYC 2025 in the shadow of the cosmic, Centre for Performance Research, New York City
2025 in the shadow of the cosmic, Art Central HK
2024 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)
2025 Deutsche Bank
2024 KADIST
2024 Sunpride Foundation
2024 Vega Foundation
2024 Morgan Stanley
2022 National Museum of Singapore
2026 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2024 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
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
2026 Villa Romana Prize
2025 Vogue Leaders Singapore
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
2023 Flaherty Online Fellowship
2023 Oberhausen Seminar
2020 PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant, Honourable Mention 2019 Forbes Asia 30 under 30 - The Arts
2019 New York Portfolio Review selected participant
2018 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee
2017 PDN 30 Emerging Photographers nominee
2017 Magnum Foundation Fund nominee
2017 World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent nominee
2017 Abigail Cohen Fellowship nominee
2017 New York Portfolio Review selected participant
2014 Noise Singapore Award
2025 CURA. 45: Blackout, by Jiaying Sim
2025 Deepfakes against hypersexualisation, by Sonja Eismann, Missy Magazine
2025 Beyond the taboo, by Silke Hohmann, Monopol Magazin
2025 “I want to create dissonance”: Artist Charmaine Poh on her breakout year, by Duncan Ballantyne-Way, The Berliner
2025 Softness as Method: Charmaine Poh’s Cinematic Language for Queer Parenthood in Singapore, by Jiaying Sim, Hyundai Artlab Editorial Fellowship
2025 Singapore artist Charmaine Poh wins Villa Romana Prize, Germany’s oldest art award, The Straits Times 2025 數碼年代下的女性形象:傅秀璇以鏡頭聚焦賦權議題 提出平等新視野, Harper’s Bazaar HK
2025 The Young Body Talks Back, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
2025 Ho Tzu Nyen, Charmaine Poh, and over ten galleries storm Hong Kong art week, The Straits Times
2024 Meet Charmaine Poh, the Singapore artist examining social relations and issues through art, Grazia SG
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, ST
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, ST
2024 25 Essential AI Artworks, ARTnews
2024 ArtAsiaPacific, New Currents May/June, profile
2024 Art in America, profile
2024 Queer art: from canvas to club, and the spaces between, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Frances Lincoln & Quardo 2024 Matter of Flux, AFSAR, Art Laboratory Berlin
2024 Ocula, In Singapore, Artists Lift the Lid on Hidden Technologies
2024 Female Magazine, The Visual Arts Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2024
2024 Art Basel, Technology Meets Tradition in Singapore
2023 Art Review, Dreaming of Home
2023 i-D, Dreaming of Home
2023 Artsy, Dreaming of Home
2023 Proof of Personhood, Plural Art Mag
2023 Proof of Personhood, The Straits Times
2023 Cyberfeminism Index
2022 Queering the Dot, ArtAsiaPacific
2022 Container Love
2022 Suspect Journal, Singapore Unbound
2021 On Holding Space, Objects Lessons Space, Singapore
2021 Unlirice Magazine, #00 Domains, Japan
2021 Nowness Asia
2021 PHMuseum: Performances of Queer Identity and Femininity in Singapore
2021 Lineal Asia: Retitled from “How She Loves” to “How They Love”
2020 Female Magazine (Print)
2020 The White Book (Print)
2020 A Magazine for Young Girls (Print)
2020 CNN Style, How They Love
2020 Artsy, How They Love
2020 i-D Asia
2019 Cuntemporary - The Liminal in Queer Asia
2019 Seenthesis: Visual Literacy Through Singapore Photography
2018 WePresent - How She Loves
2018 PHMuseum - On Womanhood
2018 Singapore Art Book Fair - 21Creatives
2018 Arthop
2018 All in Her Day’s Work, Channel News Asia
2017 Missy Magazine - December Issue - Close Enough
2017 New York Times- Lens - Room
2017 Fisheye Magazine - Room
2017 Female Magazine
2017 Life From Different Angles, The Business Times
2025 Keynote, Virtual Influencers, Influencer Ethnography Research Lab, Curtin University
2025 THE YOUNG BODY UNIVERSE, OnCurating Academy Berlin
2024 Future Ancestors: MMCA residency seminar with Jo-Lene Ong and Im Youngzoo, Seoul
2024 Cosmic Dialogues on Fiction Writing (with AFSAR), 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 Dreaming of Home podcast, with Whiskey Chow and Gemma Rolls-Bentley
2023 Oceanic Tides, Machinic Flows, The Diasporic Ordinary, Humboldt University, 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 Artsplaining, National Gallery Singapore (with Seng Yu-Jin)
2021 Strudel Media, Virtual (with Mengwen Cao)
2021 LSE Photography, Virtual
2021 SVR: (Re)Forming Methodologies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Virtual
2021 EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) conference, Virtual
2020 Speaker, Adobe MAX, Virtual
2019 Pride and Less Prejudice, Pinkfest, The Straits Clan, Singapore
2019 Platform, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
2019 Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, The KL Journal Hotel, KL, Malaysia
2018 Institute of Policy Studies Roundtable on the Arts, Singapore
2018 Women in Photography, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore 2018 Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design, and Media, Singapore
2018 Singapore International Photography Festival artist talk, Singapore
2018 How She Loves artist talk, Exactly Foundation, Singapore
2018 All in Her Day's Work artist talk, NAFA and LASALLE students, Singapore
2022 Lecturer, Year 3 students, Documentary Practice, NTU ADM, Singapore 2021
Lecturer, Year 4 students, Interdisciplinary Studies, NTU ADM, Singapore