Joel Seow Singaporean, 1997

Joel Seow (b. 1997, Singapore) is an artist and educator. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he approaches contemporary representational painting with tenderness and a reverence for the craft.

His works explore the tension between intimacy and urban isolation, and how one's memory and state of mind interact with familiar spaces. Layered with personal symbolism and autobiographical experiences, the spaces, objects, and figures in his paintings shift between solidity and transience, directly engaging with the inevitable opacity inherent in creating deeply personal images. His works have been featured in exhibitions in both Singapore and the USA.

Joel was also a 2022 grantee of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and a finalist of the AXA Art Prize 2022 at the New York Academy of Art.