Jon Chan
Jon CHAN (b. 1982; Singapore) is an artist who works through the dimensions of unsolicited real-time performances and the circulation of mediated images, but he does so primarily from the position of a painter. Chan is guided by an attunement with the notion of the divided-self and a sense of alienation which is situated in doubt, a sense that one is stuck between two opposing conditions which one feels disconnected from. From this view, he has decidedly taken on local settings for his paintings, choosing specific sites and terrain that house these particular disjunctions.
Chan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in 2007, and a Masters of Fine Arts, from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. He is the winner of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arts award of 2007 and the winner of the IMPART Art Prize 2023 (Artist Category). He has also participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Chan lives and works in Singapore.