Tropical Futures
A landmark group exhibition exploring how Southeast Asian artists imagine ecological and social futures through painting, sculpture, and immersive installation. Featuring 18 artists across 6 galleries.
Artists
Nurul Huda
Nurul Huda is a Singapore-based painter working primarily in oil on large-format canvas. Her practice investigates inherited textile traditions, domestic labour, and the materiality of Malay heritage. She graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2019 and has exhibited across Southeast Asia.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi is a documentary photographer and video artist whose work explores urban transformation in Singapore and Malaysia. He spent five years embedded with demolition crews in Toa Payoh, resulting in his acclaimed series 'Last Walls'.
Mei Lin Chen
Ceramic sculptor and installation artist. Mei Lin's practice centres on the relationship between vessels, the body, and memory — her fragmented ceramic forms are fired in a wood kiln she built in Sembawang. Shortlisted for the Singapore Young Artist Award 2025.
Arvind Selvam
pendingArvind works across painting, text, and zine-making, drawing from Tamil literary traditions and queer South Asian experience in the diaspora. His self-published zine 'Thambis' sold out at Art Book Fair Singapore 2025.
Featured Artworks
Kain #7
Nurul Huda
Oil on canvas
SGD 12,000
Kain #8
Nurul Huda
Oil on canvas
SGD 12,000
Last Walls II
Ravi Shankar
Archival pigment print
SGD 4,500
Vessel for the Unnamed
Mei Lin Chen
Wood-fired stoneware