1. Suzann Victor was born on 1959 and is a Singaporean contemporary artist based in Australia whose practice spans installation, painting, and performance art.
17 Facts About Suzann Victor
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Suzann Victor was the co-founder and artistic director of the significant Singaporean artist-run initiative and space, 5th Passage.
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Suzann Victor was one of four artists selected to exhibit at Singapore's first national pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, alongside Henri Chen KeZhan, Salleh Japar, and Matthew Ngui.
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Suzann Victor was the only woman artist to have represented at the Singapore Pavilion for the art biennale in Venice until 2022, with Shubigi Rao to represent Singapore then.
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Suzann Victor has exhibited widely on the international circuit, participating in exhibitions such as the 6th Havana Biennale in Cuba, The 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Australia, the 6th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale in South Korea, ZKM's Thermocline of Art 2007 in Germany, and OO Kulturquartier's Hohenrausch 2014 in Austria.
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Suzann Victor's adoptive mother was a housewife and her adoptive father, who had five other children, ran a transport business.
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Suzann Victor knew little about her biological father, though she was aware that he painted movie banners, and her biological mother was a housewife.
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In 1990, Suzann Victor graduated with an Associate Diploma of Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts.
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Suzann Victor would leave Singapore in the mid-1990s to study in Australia, obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997, her Master of Fine Arts in 2000, and be awarded her Doctor of Philosophy in 2008, all from the University of Western Sydney.
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Suzann Victor's works from this series, such as His Mother is a Theatre and Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame were acquired by the Singapore Art Museum as soon as it was shown, becoming significant works within Singapore's history of contemporary art.
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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 Suzann Victor leaving for Australia.
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In 1998, Suzann Victor performed Still Waters at the Singapore Art Museum for exhibition and residency project, ARX5: Processes.
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In 2001, Suzann Victor was selected as one of four artists to exhibit at Singapore's first national pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale, the first and only woman artist to have represented at the Singapore Pavilion for the art biennale in Venice until 2022, when Shubigi Rao was selected to represent Singapore.
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In 2013, for the 4th Singapore Biennale, Suzann Victor exhibited Rainbow Circle: Capturing a Natural Phenomenon, which induced rainbows within the interior of the National Museum of Singapore.
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Suzann Victor's installations are often theatrical in nature, and of a scale that allows the viewer to 'enter' the work, such as in her 1994 works His Mother is a Theatre and Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame.
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In 1988, Suzann Victor was awarded the Australian Bicentennial "Highly Commended Award" from the National Museum of Singapore.
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In 1995, Suzann Victor was awarded the Singapore International Foundation Art Award.