Jason Wee is an internationally renowned artist and writer. We are thrilled that he has agreed to answer our 20 Questions interview. 

Jason grew up in Singapore, but spent many years living in the US and Germany. He came back to Singapore to run an art space in Tiong Bahru called Grey Projects, which is an art library, exhibition space and artist residency. He is an editor for SOFTBLOW poetry journal and he was a 2005-2006 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Jason has exhibited his art all over the world from Luxembourg to New York to Sydney. In 2008 he won the Young Artist Award for visual arts in Singapore and the 2009 Voters’ Prize winner at the Singapore Art Museum. He has curated several high profile exhibitions and has written scripts for the Singapore Fringe Festival as well as several books. Recently, his work has been exhibited at the Yavuz Gallery in Singapore and with Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin.

Lets see what he has to say….

We are thrilled to launch our first artist interview feature called 20 Questions, with the wonderful Pooja Nansi!

Her work has been described as “unflinching, lyrical and quietly honest”.  She is the author of two collections of poetry, Stiletto Scars and Love is An Empty Barstool. Since April 2013, she has been curating a monthly spoken word and poetry showcase called Speakeasy which plays to packed audiences. Her one woman show You Are Here which explores her own family history of migration was showcased as part of the Esplanade Studios Series in 2016 and has since toured to Australia for the Queensland Poetry Festival. She was a recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2016. She is also Singapore’s first Youth Poet Ambassador.

Here she answered 20 artist interview questions for us.