Biography
Joel Seow (b. 1997, Singapore) is an artist and educator. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he approaches contemporary representational painting with tenderness and a reverence for the craft.
His works explore the tension between intimacy and urban isolation, and how one's memory and state of mind interact with familiar spaces. Layered with personal symbolism and autobiographical experiences, the spaces, objects, and figures in his paintings shift between solidity and transience, directly engaging with the inevitable opacity inherent in creating deeply personal images. His works have been featured in exhibitions in both Singapore and the USA.
Joel was also a 2022 grantee of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and a finalist of the AXA Art Prize 2022 at the New York Academy of Art.
Exhibitions
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Sixty Summers Here
Aisha Rosli, Anna Du Toit, Casey Tan, Faris Heizer, Joel Seow, Marla Bendini, Oneal Parbo, , Shen Jiaqi, Vanessa Liem, Yom Bo Sung 12 Jul - 8 Aug 2025 SingaporeCuturi Gallery is proud to present Sixty Summers Here celebrates a generation of ten young Singaporean artists, in their 20s and 30s, whose practices reflect the vitality and resilience of art-making today. Marking Singapore’s 60th year of independence, the exhibition brings together works across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and more—foregrounding process, experimentation, and everyday life. Rooted in care, attentiveness, and creative rigour, these practices offer quiet but powerful propositions for how art can persist, connect, and evolve. Together, they signal not just what’s emerging, but what’s already here—and here to stay.Read more -
Summer Group Show 2024
Group Exhibition 17 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 Singapore -
Summer Group Show 2023
Group Exhibition 15 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 Singapore
Works
Press
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Growing global demand for Singaporean artists' works, but more needs to be done to draw youngsters into sector
Cherie Lok & Fabian Koh, Channel News Asia, July 26, 2023 -
14 July 2023 — Cuturi Gallery to open its Summer Group Show
Stephanie Yeap, Plural Art Mag, July 14, 2023 -
Things To Do In Singapore: A Group Show For Emerging Artists, The Return Of Enclave Bar & More
Keng Yang Shuen & Nicholas See, Female Singapore, July 13, 2023