SARAH CHOO JING (b. 1990, Singapore) is known for her interdisciplinary approach to photography, video and installation. Her work depicts identifiable moments and characters within contemporary urban society suggesting a plethora of private and often solitary narratives. Choo is concerned with the gaze of the flaneur, voyeurism and the uncanny.
Choo lives and works in Singapore. She completed her BFA (Hons) at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Choo’s work is acclaimed, and was short-listed for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2017 & 2014), and won the 2014 Worldwide Photography Awards Summer Award, USA, and the 2013 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Photography Award, Singapore. She has exhibited internationally including LOOP Video Fair, Barcelona (2018); Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2018); LOOP Video Fair, Barcelona (2017); during the Venice Biennale (2017); National Gallery Singapore (2016);Singapore Art Museum (2015); National Museum of Singapore (2014); Nordart, Germany (2013); Pinyin Photography Festival, China (2013); and Santa Fe International New Media Festival, New Mexico, USA (2013).
Her works are collected by both private individuals and public institutions including Singapore Art Museum, The Arts Club London - Permanent Collection, Simmons & Simmons International and DLA Piper International.