Biography:

Mintio (Singapore) began her practice as a fine art photographer while pursuing her Bachelors in Fine Art at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in 2005.

As an artist, her work puts priority on the process as well as maintaining a high-level of craft in the execution of an image. Working primarily with large format photography, she believes that technical choices are the key elements in the personalization her work. In her most notable series "Concrete Euphoria", Mintio works uses the large format camera to photograph urban landscapes around Asia.

Despite the discipline-oriented methodology, she allows chance, chaos and emotional impulse to be huge driving forces in her practice. Her subsequent series "Conveyance" was acquired by the Singapore Art Museum. Mintio's new body of work, "~*THOHY*~ (The Hall of Hyperdelic Youths)", exploring the connections between spirituality and the cyber-world through adolescent computer gamers, will be exhibited at Valentine Willie Fine Art around the Southeast Asian region.

 

 

CV

Education:

BFA, Photography, School of Art, Design and Media NTU, 2009

 

Awards:

PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2008: Honorable Mention

American Photo, Images of the Year 2008: Honorable Mention

 

Selected Presentations & Exhibitions:

2902 Group Show: The Persistency of Memory, "Traces", 2902 Gallery

June 2008

 

Adobe Design Awards Presentation: "Solo Pas Deux", New York

June 2008

 

2902 Group Show: Photo-synthesis, "Concrete Euphoria", 2902 Gallery

December 2008

 

Group Show: A Sense of Place, "Concrete Euphoria", INSEAD Singapore

 

Group Show: Cardiff Chimera, "A Dialogue with the Gulls", Westminster's Bank, Cardiff, UK

April 2009

 

TransportAsian Exhibition, "Conveyance", Singapore Art Museum, Month of Photography Asia

May 2009

 

Group Show: Kaleidoscope: "Concrete Euphoria", Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines

July 2009

 

Group Show: CUT 2010 "The Hall of Hyperdelic Youths", Valentine Willie Fine Art

Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila, Yogyakarta, Bangkok. March, June, Sept, Nov 2010

 

Group Show: Emerging Waves, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Centre, & GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan

May 2010

 

Solo Show: Table for One, Food For Thought, 8Q, Singapore

Singapore International Photography Festival Oct 2010

 

 

Press & Publications:

Reuters, "The Journey becomes art at Asian transport exhibit", June 2009

Geo Magazine (Germany), "Geo Kosmos" section, August 2009

Female Magazine (Singapore), "18 Local Up-and-comers to Watch this Year", August 2009

TransportAsian Catalogue, Singapore Art Museum, Oct 2009

Culturepush (Singapore), "Spotted! Mintio", March 2010

Confabulation Magazine (Singapore), May 2010

Monthly Art Magazine, (Seoul), May 2010

 

 

Residencies & Scholarships:

Cityscapers: Cardiff Chimera, hosted by British Council March 2009

ConversAsians, Fellowship Program hosted by Esplanade May 2010

 

 

Collections:

Singapore Art Museum Permanent Collection