Dean
Milenko Prvacki

Having graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Institute of Fine Art, Bucharest, Romania, Milenko came to Singapore in 1991. He subsequently joined LASALLE in 1994 to begin his teaching profession. He has exhibited in the Biennale of Sydney in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia in 2006, the Anthology of the Arts, Stadische Gallery, ZKM Medienmuseum, ZKM-Foyer, Stadische Hochschule fur Gestaltung, ZKM-Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany. He was also awarded the 2nd International Drawing Triennale, International Museum of Drawing, Nurnberg, Germany in 1982, as well as was a Visiting Professor at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan in 2004. His works are in the permanent collection of the Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Museum of Contemporary Drawing, Nurnberg, Germany among others. Milenko became a Singapore citizen in 2002.

Postgraduate Studies

Dr Ian Woo
Programme leader Ian Woo has exhibited both internally and locally, with acquisitions of his works by major institutions like UBS, Singapore Management University, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, United Overseas Bank, Tomio Koyoma Gallery in Japan, ABN AMRO and Mint Museum of Craft & Design. His involvement in research was on the language of abstract painting to possess the ability to express notions of a continuous presence. His ideas of momentary paintings are influenced by speech and contemporary music compositions. He has held 5 individual exhibitions and he is seen as influential artist with works/from his output of paintings that pushes the envelope of painting as a reflexive language of shifting representations between memory and time. His interdisciplinary practice includes his fascination with making improvisational music, where he is seen as a participator, playing the bass guitar with several improvised noise rock outfits, namely I\D and Path Integral.

Adeline Kueh
Currently a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Fine Arts, her previous stints include being the Director of the Intermedia Lab with the Office of Research & Creative Industries, as well as Director of Studies, Art Theory & Art History in the college. She had also established the MA Art History programme, the first online programme (with a Southeast Asian angle) for Lasalle. Rooted in cultural studies, her research interests include notions of monstrosity within Southeast Asian contexts, smart fashion, architecture and the future of cinema. She has chaired and presented at a number of cultural studies conferences in UK, Australia, Finland and Hungary. Adeline has also produced installations and interventionist projects within the collaborative MatriXial Technologies in Germany, the Netherlands and USA. Presently, she is also a consultant for a number of research, lifestyle and design projects, including being a consultant lecturer for the MA Art Business programme with Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Singapore.

Undergraduate Studies

Hj Salleh Japar
Salleh is the Programme Leader, Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts. Winner of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Visual Art Award (1996) & Singapore Youth Award (Art and Culture) from the National Youth Council, Salleh represented Singapore in 2001, 49th Venice Biennale. Salleh Japar trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts. He went on to obtain his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia in 1990. A lecturer at his Singaporean alma mater between 1990 and 1995, Salleh Japar was appointed member on Course Validation as well as to the Overseas Student Council following his Pg Dip in Art Education at the University of Central England, United Kingdom, in 1996. Salleh has also been a volunteer art tutor at the Handicap Welfare Association and an Assistant Curator of Art at the National Museum in Singapore. Recipient of many grants and scholarships for his art and discipline, Salleh has participated and exhibited in more than 60 programmes and exhibitions in Singapore and internationally.

Zainudin Samsuri
Zainudin is an artist and a Fine Arts lecturer at LASALLE. He received a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, majoring in Sculpture. Zainudin has represented Singapore at the 2003 Hopea Sengal Tree Sculpture Symposium and at Page 5 of 9 the 1st Biennial Sculpture Symposium held in Singapore. His commissioned public artworks can be found at various historical sites in Singapore including Raffles Institution and the Singapore Zoological Gardens. Zainudin was also a recipient of the Arts Award of Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) in 2005.

Hazel Lim
Hazel is a visual artist who completed her postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2008 and has a Bachelor degree in Sociology and Statistics. Trained in painting, she frequently employs installation, photography and objects to express her concerns about notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. Her latest research, however led her to create works that question representation itself, articulated through works that include objects, text, paper folding, interactive workshops and presentations. Besides being an artist and teaching, she has experiences in other aspects of art such as gallery management and contributing to artistic publications. She had taken part in group exhibitions showcased in Singapore, Ireland and Vietnam and participated extensively in international artists exchange programs such as the ASEF Creative Camp 2003 in Paris, Artists’ Workshop in Vietnam, 2005 and Documenta: International Workshop for Art Academies in Germany during 2007. Hazel is also the Associate Artist with Substation where she held her first solo exhibition, Secret Windows in 2004.

Betty Susiarjo
Betty graduated from Winchester School of Art with Master of Arts (with Distinction), England. Her works mainly deal with elements of Time and Temporality and is interested in the manipulation of both physical and non-physical materials to convey this idea. Often inspired by the relationship of the mundane and the transcendental, she works mainly with installation, painting, drawing, writing and time-based media. Besides working on an installation piece Someday We Will Know, upcoming projects this year (2009) include Manifold at Substation, D-minor exhibition in Alliance Francaise de Singapore and working for the cover of Provoke! Magazine and Purple City project in Indonesia.  Other recent group exhibitions include Lights Out! exhibition in Esplanade, Singapore (2008) and The Notthatballai Art Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007).

Jeremy Sharma Melvin
Graduated with BFA (Distinction), RMIT University in 2003 and Master of Art, Open University in 2006, Jeremy is a versatile artist who merges visual art and music. He has held four one-person exhibitions and participated many group exhibitions namely, Athlete (5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (premiering in Bangkok and USA), City_net (Seoul Museum of Art), Whose Playground is This? (Plastique kinetic Worms, Singapore), 8 Young Contemporaries (ArtForum, Singapore), Peninsular/Island (Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur), insomnia: KYTV presents: The P.O.P Station plus Tiramisu (ICA, London), Iconoclast/Persistence: Site of Memory (Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay, Singapore), and BigSmall Works (Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore). Jeremy has participated in Artist Residency and Exchange Program (REAP) by Artesan Gallery, Manila, royal Over-seas League (ROSL, UK) and Studio 106 (Former Ng Eng Teng Studio, Singapore) and is a recipient of JCCI Art Award, Finalist Phillip Morris Arts Award, First Prize Action for Aids Award and the Della Butcher Award (presented by The Rotary Club Singapore).

Lecturer, Photography
Gilles Massot

Master of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Diploma in Photography & Audiovisual, University of Marseille St Charles, France
Certificate in Architecture, School of Architecture of Marseille Luminy, France

Professional Achievements:

• Published Retro Specks, Future Pixs: the book
• Published Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago