Tropical Futures

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

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 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

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

Arvind Selvam

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Arvind 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

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Kain #7

Nurul Huda

Oil on canvas

SGD 12,000

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Kain #8

Nurul Huda

Oil on canvas

SGD 12,000

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Last Walls II

Ravi Shankar

Archival pigment print

SGD 4,500

Vessel for the Unnamed

Vessel for the Unnamed

Mei Lin Chen

Wood-fired stoneware