Singapore Art Museum

With SAM show Form Is Emptiness, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto finds peace

Hiroshi Sugimoto with his work Brush Impression, Heart Sutra (2023)

Five highlights of Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness at Singapore Art Museum

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Generic photo of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Mathematical Model 002: Dini’s Surface (2005, spiral sculpture) and Sea of Buddha (1995, photographs on wall), as part of Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness, the artist's first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia, at the Singapore Art Museum. Photographed on May 26, 2026. ST PHOTO: SARAH LEE

Singapore Art Museum at 30: New open-air gallery and questions over its direction

Crowds at Tanjong Pagar Distripark in January during Singapore Art Week.

Singapore Art Museum: Milestones through the years

A 2025 photo of SAM's former premises at the old SJI building in Bras Basah Road.

Time to shut down the Singapore Biennale?

One of three shop units at Lucky Plaza housing Singapore Biennale works.

Life List: 2025 in 15 lifestyle objects

Eggplants by Suzann Victor at NGS: Instagrammable entry point to wronged artist

Suzann Victor's commission Still Life at the National Gallery Singapore.

Singapore’s Ho Tzu Nyen and Eugene Tan make ArtReview’s Power 100 list

Artist Ho Tzu Nyen (right) and Dr Eugene Tan, director and chief executive of both the National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum, have been named the top 100 most influential people in the art world by ArtReview on Dec 4.

Singapore Biennale 2025, opening Oct 31, unpacks the ‘masterplanned’ city

shbiennale29/ST20251027_202543000546/Ng Sor Luan/Media preview of Singapore Biennale 2025 on Oct 27, 2025.

Rest in progress: Participants reimagine downtime in design contest at bustling Distripark

Using discarded materials from Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Hans Chew, 28, and Jun Tan, 39, created Dara-Dara, a lounge area that included a modular L-shape sofa to show how such items can have a second life. The work responds to the site as both a logistics hub and an emerging arts space, where a lot of materials and labour go into setting up exhibitions. Over the hour, they moved, wrapped, strapped, and secured the materials, echoing the site’s logistical operations and paying homage to the often invisible labour behind every successful exhibition. During their site visits, they noticed the large amount of material thrown away and began considering how it could be reused. On Oct 3, they were among nine teams gathered at Tanjong Pagar Distripark — where the Singapore Art Museum is currently located — to compete in transforming a 1.5m by 2m space into a cosy rest area. Within an hour, the teams built their own spaces. Three prizes were awarded, and the duo won the Programmer’s Award, earning a showcase for their work at SAM.

Singapore Art Museum shows probe afterlives of performance and common objects

SAM exhibition. Full cap to come.

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