Kent Chan

Kent Chan (b. 1984, Singapore) is an artist, curator, and filmmaker based in The Netherlands. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imaginary, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity. His works have taken the form of moving-image, text, performances, and exhibitions.

He has held solo and two-person presentations at Gasworks (London, United Kingdom, 2023), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2021), de Appel (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021), Bonnefanten museum (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2020), and National University Singapore Museum (2019). His works and films have been exhibited in institutions and festivals including Liverpool Biennial (United Kingdom, 2023), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (South Korea, 2023), Videobrasil (São Paulo, Brazil, 2023), Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom, 2022), Onassis Stegi (Athens, Greece, 2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands, 2022), Times Museum (Guangdong, China, 2021), BIENALSUR (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021) and EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016). He is the recipient of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award and Impart Art Prize (both 2023), and of the Foundwork Artist Prize (2021). His works are collected by institutions such as the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Kadist Foundation, Rijkscollectie, and Bonnefanten Museum. He was Artist-in-Residence at MMCA Residency Changdong (Seoul, South Korea, 2025), Art Explora (Paris, France, 2024), Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (São Paulo, Brazil, 2024), Gasworks (London, United Kingdom, 2022), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2019) and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017-18).