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David Teh
David Teh is a curator and an associate professor at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Southeast Asian contemporary art. His curatorial projects have included Unreal Asia (Oberhausen, 2009), Video Vortex #7 (Yogyakarta, 2011), TRANSMISSION (Bangkok, 2014), Misfits: Pages from a Loose-leaf Modernity (Berlin, 2017) and Returns (12th Gwangju Biennale, 2018). David’s writings have appeared in journals including Third Text, ARTMargins and Afterall. His book Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary was published by the MIT Press (2017), and he was a co-editor (with David Morris) of the multi-authored volume, Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 for Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series. Teh was also a co-founder of Future Perfect, a gallery and project platform in Singapore.
Contact: Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Block AS5, 7 Arts Link, Singapore 117570.