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Mr.
Yap Sau Bin
Specialist 1 FACULTY OF CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA (FCM) Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor 03-83125519 sbyap@mmu.edu.my
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Yap is an artist-curator and educator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He teaches at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University and also a member of the artist initiative Rumah Air Panas [RAP]. Yap’s practices encompass conceptual work, installation, performance, mapping project and curatorial work.
Yap has participated in the 8th Havana Biennale in 2006; in Migration Addicts, a collateral event project in the 52nd Venice Biennale, and in the ShenZhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism & Architecture, in 2007. He had received awards in the Young Contemporaries Arts Award by the National Art Gallery in 2000 and 2002. And has been selected for research residency in Japan under the JENESYS Programme for Creators by the Japan Foundation in 2008. Yap had also worked on the Narratives in Malaysian Art volumes published by Rogue Art. He has also served on the jury panel for the 2013 Young Contemporary Arts Award; as nominator for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2014 - 2016, Arts Maebashi AIR Programme 2016-2018 and the 2017 Hugo Boss Asia Art award.
Previous curatorial project includes ‘ESCAPE from the SEA’ organised by the Japan Foundation in Kuala Lumpur in 2017; the BRANDNEW Art Project at the Bangkok University Gallery in 2019; interlocutor for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA in 2020; and artistic director for SENSORii, Art In the City by CENDANA in 2022; and in the Curatorial/Collaborator Research team for the first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art. Other engagement includes How Has Contemporary Art Represented Southeast Asia? symposium at the 2017 Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. And the 2018 Hugo Boss Asia Art Conference by Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. Recent curatorial projects include Pesan Dan Kenangan: Collections of Pakha Sulaiman, and fffluid apparatus: At the Intersection of the Human, the Natural, and the Machine, by Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, both in 2024, and Lintas Benua: Field(Trip) of Proximities organised by CAD+SR, Jambatan Collective, Kapallorek in 2026.
