Hilmi Johandi

Working primarily with painting, Hilmi Johandi (b. 1987, Singapore) also explores interventions with other mediums. The core of his practice mobilises symbols and sites where memory and nostalgia, leisure and desire are deeply entangled. Drawing on archival footage, stills from old films, and sundry imagery produced for mass consumption, his body of work subtly refigures the iconography of Singapore and our relation with images. He is part of Progressive Disintegration, an experimental collaboration between three artists and one curator formed around shared interests in the role and potential of images. Hilmi’s recent solo exhibitions include Landscapes and Paradise: Poolscapes, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2021) and Painting Archives, Rumah Lukis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2019) and his works have been included in several international group exhibitions in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Thailand. In 2018, he was a recipient of the Young Artist Award and a finalist at the President’s Young Talents. He received the NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) in 2017.