Kimberly Shen

Biography

Kimberly Shen is a curator, educator, and researcher based in Singapore. Currently a PhD student at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, her research project is titled, "Methods of care: Feminist curating as ​an embodied transference of language and knowledge".

Over the past 15 years, she has worked extensively with emerging and established artists from Singapore and Southeast Asia. Selected curatorial projects include: Circulations (2026), dblspce, Unpacked by Melati Suryodarmo (2023), ShanghART Gallery; across the way by Salty Xie Jie Ng (2023), starch; While She Quivers (2022), Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) by Susie Wong (2020), Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film; Image+Body: exhibition and performance (2018), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; and Residency as method (2015), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore.

She co-founded ellipsis journal (2013 - 2015), a London/Singapore print publication distributed locally and internationally at art book fairs, and established dblspce (2021 - present), a Singapore-based independent research platform and incubator dedicated to artistic practice. In recognition of her curatorial practice, she was awarded the IMPART Art Prize (Curator Category) in 2019. She holds a MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, supported by the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate).