Salleh Japar (b. 1962, Singapore) graduated from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia (BA with Distinction), University of Central England (Post graduate Diploma in Art Education) and RMIT University (Masters in Arts by research). Salleh has served both as an independent curator and artist. He has participated and curated many exhibitions both locally and internationally. Some of the projects that he curated namely sMall iDeas (2014) at Sabanci University, Istanbul; Batik: Rethinking Traditions (2006) at MITA Atrium; The President’s Young Talents Exhibition (co-curator 2001) at Singapore Art Museum; Wahana Project – Imagined Legacies at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2006); Wahana Project at Vargas Museum, Philippines (2005); Drawing and Diagrams: Ideas Personified (1998) at Chymes, Singapore. Salleh was a consultant for many advisory boards and committees including the Singapore Art Museum, National Arts Council, National Youth Council and Ministry of Education’s Syllabus Review Committee.
Currently a senior lecturer at McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, he is a recipient of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Visual Art Award (1996) and Singapore Youth Award (Art and Culture) from the National Youth Council.
A series of works based on the revisioning and positioning within a period of time and space (physical and mind/mental). This process of revisioning and positioning as act of self-reflection and trajectory of the self. Small scale works provide the privacy and intimacy which also reduces the distances between the physical space and mental space.
