11 Facts About Susie Lingham

Susie Lingham was born on 1965 and is a Singaporean contemporary artist, writer, curator, art theorist, and educator.

From 1991 to 1994, Lingham was the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Singaporean artist-run initiative and space, 5th Passage, alongside artist Suzann Victor.

Susie Lingham is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore.

Susie Lingham was born in 1965 to a Peranakan Indian father and a Punjabi mother, the youngest of the five children.

Susie Lingham would decide on an education in art over literature, obtaining her Diploma in Fine Art from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1990, graduating with the Merit Award for outstanding performance.

Susie Lingham then pursued a master's in writing at the University of Western Sydney from 1996 to 2000, obtaining a postgraduate diploma in teaching higher education in 2001 from the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

Susie Lingham later pursued a doctor of philosophy in literature, religion and philosophy at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2008.

Around a year after 5th Passage's programmes at Pacific Plaza, the founder-directors of the initiative left for further studies and the group disbanded, with Susie Lingham leaving for Australia.

In 2004, Susie Lingham developed an interdisciplinary production, consisting of two parts: the performance If the Universe, between Circle and Ellipse, Slips and the sound and visual exhibition Sounds Like Mirrors.

Susie Lingham later stepped down as Director in March 2016, taking on the role of Creative Director for the 5th Singapore Biennale, An Atlas of Mirrors, in 2016.

At the Gajah Gallery in 2022, Susie Lingham held a solo exhibition titled Thought Sample Return, presenting a series of "conceptual sculptures" exploring reasoning and consciousness in the human mind.