Overview

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 ArtLondon.

 

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 AwardUSA, and the 2013 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Photography AwardSingaporeShe 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); NordartGermany (2013); Pinyin Photography Festival, China (2013); and Santa Fe International New Media FestivalNew 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.

Press
Video
Works
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Zoom, Click, Waltz, 2021
    Zoom, Click, Waltz, 2021
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Accelerated Intimacy 3, 2018
    Accelerated Intimacy 3, 2018
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Accelerated Intimacy 8, 2018
    Accelerated Intimacy 8, 2018
  • Sarah Choo Jing, The Art of Rehearsal (Panorama), 2016
    The Art of Rehearsal (Panorama), 2016
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Wear You All Night (3), 2016
    Wear You All Night (3), 2016
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Consecutive Breaths, 2016
    Consecutive Breaths, 2016
  • Sarah Choo Jing, Nowhere Near, 2015
    Nowhere Near, 2015
  • Sarah Choo Jing, It was a Tuesday, like any other Tuesday, 2013
    It was a Tuesday, like any other Tuesday, 2013