Jamie Teo

Born 1996
Hometown Singapore
Lives and works Singapore

About the artist
Drawn by the peculiar sensation of not being able to focus on any particular area within the surface of colours in her abstract works, Jamie Teo invites viewers to experience a different approach to seeing by meticulously blending colours to both create and investigate its movement and ambiguous outcomes. Her paintings embody a sense of tension that lingers between the stillness and phenomenal movement where colours begin to change the longer you look at them. Areas of unique, impulsive textured brushstrokes are built up from the rigid process of pushing thick accumulated paint back and forth. This juxtaposition from the smooth and flat gradient surface captures fleeting moments where colours merge and break apart from each other within an ever-changing field of stillness, evoking a visual interaction between the viewer and the work, seeing and experiencing an intangible in-between.

Media

Watch the porters after dark video

Education
2013 – 2016 Diploma in Fine Arts – Painting LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2016 – 2018 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London

Awards & Achievements
2018 37th UOB Painting of the Year Singapore, Emerging Artist Category, Silver Award
2016 The LASALLE Bursary (BA)
2016 The Winston Oh Travel Award
2015 The LASALLE Bursary (Diploma) 2015 CDC/CCC Arts Institution Bursary

Select solo exhibitions
2019 Shifting Stillness, Solo exhibition by Jamie Teo, UOB Art Gallery, Singapore

Select group exhibitions
2021 hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2020 Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2019 Art Expo Malaysia 2019, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019 Art Jakarta, Art Porters Gallery, Jakarta Convention Centre Senayan Indonesia

2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2018 2018 UOB Painting of the Year Regional Winnings’ Showcase, UOB Art Gallery, UOB Plaza 1, Singapore

2018 KAC, Katara Art Center, Katara Cultural Village Building 5, Doha, Qatar

2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2018 Art Expo Malaysia 2018, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2018 The LASALLE Show 2018, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore

2018 A Dive, Splendid!, LASALLE College of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, Singapore

2018 Melange, LASALLE College of the Arts, Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2017 Between; +Project, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan

2016 The Measure of Things, The Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 Between Walls, The LASALLE Show 2016, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 Gas and Dust: The Manufactured Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2016 The Pondok, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2015 As Far as I could Reach, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore

2015 SAVANTS: The Young Artists Among Us Exhibition, The Arts House, Singapore