Zoya Chaudhary is an artist born in India and a resident of Singapore since 2011. She works across mediums including installation, video, cut-out collage & painting. Zoya’s art practice is focused on exploring ideas of perception, memory & time especially in this media informed world. Her works begin with the personal, and then build to consider ways the personal interacts with larger public narrative.
Zoya graduated with MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London in 2021. She a has worked as a visual artist and illustrator in India and Singapore. Zoya spent her formative years watching, performing and designing for several theatre productions which she believes also informs her art practice. Her art has been exhibited and collected in Singapore and abroad since 2012
Exhibition
2019 • ‘Passage in Time’ Installation, a Special Project presented by Affordable Art Fair, Singapore, November, 2023
2023 • Solo Exhibition Presenting Pastness, 15 – 23 April 2023, Art Outreach, Gillman Barracks, Singapore,
2022 • The Art of India, 2022, show by Times of India, 8th- 15th April, Gandhinagar, India
2021 • Strangers on an Island, Winston Oh Travelogue Award Online Exhibition
2021 • Beautiful, Nice and Interesting, Lasalle MAFA final showcase, Project Space gallery, ICA, Singapore, November
2021 • Polychromatic Dreamscapes, The Visual Art Centre, Singapore,15 March – 5 May
2020 • TILT group show, Praxis gallery, ICA, Singapore, November
2019 • Affordable Art Fair, Singapore, November
2019 • Art Gemini Prize Finalist’s Exhibition 2019, Gallery NaWei, The Fullerton Hotel,
Singapore, 9 -15 November
2019 • Intersections group show at The Visual Art Centre, Singapore 8-9 March
2019 • Utterly Women group show at Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore 1-17thMarch
2018 • Lost And Found – Singapore, Solo Exhibition, Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore, August
2017 • Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands November
2017 • Affordable Art Fair, Singapore, April
2014 • The Substation Gallery, Singapore, MimArt 5.0, January
2013 • The Culture Square Gallery, Singapore, September
2013 • The Substation Gallery, Singapore, MimArt 4.0, March
2012 • The Substation Gallery, Singapore, MimArt 3.0, September
Awards + Achievements (*International)
*Winner of the Art Gemini Prize, 2019
*Profiled amongst 90 artists from around the globe in publication “Artists To Look Out For” 2014 by “Starry Night Programs, United States of America.
*Finalist in the Print Advertising category, IBDA’A International Student Awards 2004, held by the International Advertising Association (UAE Chapter)
Finalist in the Illustration category in the 56th CAG Awards 2004 (India)
Publications
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‘Shaping Perception: Negotiating media as material, the fragility of time and fleeting emotions’. Currents Journal, Archipelagic Encounters (2021), https://currentsjournal.net/Shaping- Perception