Tania De Rozario

drowninmydesire@yahoo.com.sg

Awards & Grants

National Arts Council (NAC) Arts Creation Fund (Literature) NAC Golden Point Award Winner (English Poetry) NAC Presentation & Promotion Grant (Etiquette II) NAC International Travel Grant (Hedgebrook) NAC Presentation & Promotion Grant (Etiquette) NAC Mentor Access Project (Mentor: Cyril Wong) NAC International Development Grant (Netherlands, Amsterdam) Singapore Film Commission Script Development Grant (co-writer) Winston Oh Travel Award (Southeast Asia) NAC / Georgette Chen Arts Scholarship (LASALLE College of Arts) Adobe & The One Academy Art and Design Award 2012 2011 2011 2011 2010 2009 2009 2005 2001 2000 1998

Residency Placements
Artist-in-Residence The Unifiedfield (Granada, Spain) Artist-Researcher-in-Residence The Substation (Singapore) Writer-in-Residence - Sangam House (Bangalore, India) Writer-In-Residence - Hedgebrook (USA, Washington State) Forthcoming, Dec 2013 Apr 2013 - Mar 2015 Dec 2012 - Jan 2013 Oct 2011

Selected Media Features & Interviews

Project LAVA The Point of Arrival, TimeOut Singapore Words in Visuals, Straits Times Life A Language of Longing: Tania De Rozario, Fridae.com Winners of the SPH-GoldenPoint Award 2011, Straits Times Life 42 Feted for Written Word, Straits Times In The Studio : Tania De Rozario, TimeOut Singapore Beyond Shock Value , Business Times, Singapore, Etiquette: The Art of Conversation, The Pocket Arts Guide Etiquette: Exhibition of the Month, TimeOut Singapore, Jan 2013 11 Dec 2012 30 Nov 2011 28 Oct 2011 28 Oct 2011 Issue Oct 2011 12 Aug 2011 Issue Aug 2011 Issue Aug 2011
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On Art, Writing & Sexuality, Singapore Art Gallery Guide Instinctively Feature , Radio Interview with XHo A Thousand Words, Television Interview, Broadcast on Arts Central The Identity Show - Interview, Grain Magazine No Apologies A Review, Vehicle: Contemporary Visual Arts Travelogue 2002 A Review, Vehicle: Contemporary Visual Arts

Jan/Feb 2011 Nov 2005 Jan 2005 Issue 02 2004 Issue 06 2003 Issue 05 2002

Presentations & Panel Engagements

Moderator Art & Agency: Sexual Autonomy in Art, Film & Literature , The Substation, Singapore Moderator New Word Order, The Arts House, Singapore Panelist Singapore Writers Festival (Gender Bender Love in the Age of Sexual Confusion), The Arts House, Singapore Presenter I See You (Artist Talk), The Arts House, Singapore. Jun 2012 Nov 2012 Nov 2012 Dec 2012

Solo Exhibitions & Showcasings

A Language of Longing (reprise), The Pigeonhole, Singapore A Language of Longing, The Substation Gallery, Singapore A Hundred Ways To Say Your Name, tickleArt, Singapore 2011 2011 2009

Selected Group Exhibitions

Edible Lit, The Arts House, Singapore The Point of Arrival (NAC Commission), NLB, Singapore Some Nights Need (An Introduction), G.Arts Centre, Singapore Landing Places, Objectifs Gallery, Singapore I See You, The Arts House, Print Gallery, Singapore A Language of Longing, The Pigeonhole, Singapore Square Invasion, Instinc Gallery, Singapore Etiquette II Substation Gallery, Singapore Feeding Ghosts, Kitsch Gallery, San Francisco 2013 Oct 2012 Mar 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2010

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Allegations, tickleArt showcase, Singapore The Longest Distance, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore Only Breath, Caf Kunst Sappho, Amsterdam Pameran Poskad 2008, House@Dempsey, Singapore Singapore Contemporary Young Artists, Sculpture Square, Breathe, Jendela / The Esplanade, Singapore Sama-Sama, 72-13, Singapore Utterly Magic, Utterly Art, Singapore Bag It! , Instinc Gallery, Singapore Animal Instinct, Utterly Art, Singapore Things in the Dark , Pelangi Pride Center, Singapore Red + White = Pink, Utterly Art, Singapore Dont Pick My Pocket Esplanade Showcase, Singapore The Identity Show, Mox Caf & Bar, Singapore Intangible, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Singapore No Apologies, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore Limelight , BA Gallery LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Complimentary, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore ARTillery , FA Block 2, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Food and the City, Raffles City Atrium, Singapore Travelogue, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore Imaginary Observations, Alliance Francaise, Singapore VOICES, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore AEP Exhibition 97, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore

2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001 1997 1997

Literary Readings
Singapore Art Salon #32, Blu Jazz, Singapore Speakeasy #3, Artistry, Singapore Launch of Tender Delirium, Books Actually, Singapore What Counts?, One East Asia, Singapore Con(TEXT), National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore Our Very Own Fairy Tales, Books Actually, Singapore Instinctively, The Pigeonhole, Singapore Forthcoming, Jul 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012

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Sugar & Spice, The Pigeonhole, Singapore SlutWalk TalkBack, The Pigeonhole, Singapore ContraDiction VII, 72-13 , Singapore Women Out Loud, Substation Theatre, Singapore Carnal Stash, Post-Museum, Singapore Mentor Access Project Showcase ,The ArtsHouse, Singapore Launch - GASPP, Play Club, Singapore ContraDiction VI, 72-13, Singapore Hate Mail The Arts House, , Singapore

2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2009 2006

Curatorial Projects
The Vagina Monologues,The Chamber@The Arts House, Singapore Body Boundaries A Reading, The Arts House, Singapore What Counts? One East Asia, Singapore Landing Places, Objectifs Gallery, Singapore Instinctively The Pigeonhole, Singapore Sugar & Spice, The Pigeonhole , Singapore Etiquette 2011 Visual Arts Component The Substation Gallery, Etiquette 2011 Women Out Loud The Substation Theatre Etiquette 2010, The Substation Gallery, Singapore Only Breath, Caf Kunst Sappho, Amsterdam Animal Instinct, Utterly Art, Singapore Things in the Dark , Pelangi Pride Center, Singapore 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2009 2005 2004

Selected Writing
Poetry + Prose (Solo Publications)
Tender Delirium, Published by Math Paper Press. Reasons for the Rain, Published by The Substation Apr 2013 (Forthcoming, Nov 2013)

Poetry + Prose (Journals + Anthologies)

Nyotaimori, 24 Flavours Issue 1, Math Paper Press. Apr 2013

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The First Face You Saw, Straits Times Once Winter Comes, Moving Words Journal Returning Home, The Substations Love Letter Project The Walk Back, Packing Days, Walking Distance Softblow My Jericho, GASSP: A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry & Prose Space, The Substations Love Letters Project The Shortest Distance, Santa Fe Writers Project Journal Fifteen, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Interpretation ,Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

28 Oct 2011 Oct 2011 Sep 2011 Dec 2010 Oct 2010 July 2010 Apr 2009 Vol.5 no 2, 2006 Vol.4 no 3, 2005

Art (Essays + Research)

The River re-Membered, re-Moved, re-Mapped, The Substation 30 Instrumental Art Achievements in 10 Years, TimeOut Singapore Singapore: The Encyclopedia (Co-contributor), Editions Dider Millet The Threads that Bind, for fashion designer Tang Wai Wah Sep 2010 Jan 2011 2006 2005

Art + Photography (Opinion)

Thrillers from Manila, (On Filipino Art) TimeOut Singapore Why is Skin a Sin?, (On the figure drawing) TimeOut Singapore Painting the Town Dead, (On blockbuster festivals) TimeOut Singapore Of Gimmicks and Grammar, (On Conceptual Photography) GRAIN Learning to See , (On photography eduction) GRAIN The Art of Illusion: My One Hour Photo Experience , (Film) GRAIN Issue Oct 2009 Issue Jan 2009 Issue Dec 2008 Issue 12_2005 Issue 06_2004 Issue 05_2005

Art (Interviews + Features)

Interview: Beyond Borders The Guerilla Girls etiquette.sg Interview: Beyond Borders Jessica Valenti etiquette.sg Explain Your Show Shinji Ohmaki, TimeOut Singapore Interview: Beyond Borders Kimiko Suda etiquette.sg iLight Marina Bay, TimeOut Singapore Before We Forget, (On the film Before We Forget) TimeOut Singapore M1 Singapore Fringe Festival: Art & Faith, TimeOut Singapore Interview: Beyond Borders Amy Wheeler etiquette.sg Issue Aug 2012 Issue Jul 2012 Issue May 2012 Issue Mar 2012 Issue Apr 2012 Issue Mar 2012 Issue Feb 2012 Issue Jan 2012

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Interview: Beyond Borders Elisha Lim etiquette.sg Amanda Heng: Singapore s National Enquirer, TimeOut Singapore Snapshots of the Past: MOP Asia, TimeOut Singapore Interview: Alexandra Novosselof, TimeOut Singapore Three Artsy Bookstores to Take It All (Various) TimeOut Singapore, Interview: Aubrey Edwards, TimeOut Singapore Keep an Open Mind (On the 3rd Singapore Biennale) TimeOut Singapore Vasan Sitthiket A Head of the Rest, TimeOut Singapore Under Lock & Key: Performance Artist Lynn Lu, TimeOut Singapore Interview: Audrey Wong, TimeOut Singapore Curators Choice (Interview with 3 curators), TimeOut Singapore The Art of Law (on the M1 Fringe Festival 2009), TimeOut Singapore Interview: Ming Wong, TimeOut Singapore Ye Shufang: Singapore s Food Art Specialist, TimeOut Singapore Read the Fine-art Print, (On artist-books) TimeOut Singapore The Medium is the Message. (Artist Feature), TimeOut Singapore Interview: The Missing Section Missing in Action,TimeOut Singapore What a Masterpiece! (On Art education for Kids), Family Magazine Vanishing Bangkok (On Photographer Surat Osathanugrah), GRAIN Photographic Illuminations, (Interview with NY Publishing Co.) GRAIN The Art of Moving Pictures, (Interview with 3 Digital-filmmakers) GRAIN The Other Side of the Lens, (Interview with model Jaymee Ong) GRAIN Pulling Strings, ( Interview with winning film-makers) GRAIN Rise of the Singapore Lomo Embassy, (Interview/ lomography) GRAIN

Issue Dec 2011 Issue Sep 2011 Issue Jul 2011 Issue Jul 2011 Issue Jun 2011 Issue Apr 2011 Issue Mar 2011 Issue Feb 2011 Issue Oct 2010 Issue Sep 2010 Issue April 2010 Issue Dec 2009 Issue Aug 2009 Issue July 2009 Issue May 2009 Issue Mar 2009 Issue Nov 2008 Issue Mar 2006 Issue 12_2005 Issue 11_2005 Issue 11_2005 Issue 12_2005 Issue 12_2005 Issue 11_2005

Art & Photography (Previews, Reviews + Showcases)

Everything that Has a Point Makes a Circle (Yavuz) TimeOut Singapore Monumental Southeast Asia (VWFA) TimeOut Singapore Chng Seok Tin (NAFA Gallery) TimeOut Singapore I Would Prefer Not To (Give Art) TimeOut Singapore Video: An Art, A History (Singapore Art Musem) TimeOut Singapore Collidoscope (VWFA) TimeOut Singapore Homework (Objectifs) TimeOut Singapore, Hockney (Singapore Tyler Print Institute) TimeOut Singapore, Issue Feb 2012 Issue Jan 2012 Issue Sep 2011 Issue Aug 2011 Issue Jun 2011 Issue Jun 2011 Issue Jun 2011 Issue May 2011

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Handover Michael (Alliance Francaise Singapore), TimeOut Singapore Inevitable (The Esplanade) TimeOut Singapore 8 Must-See Shows (Year-end Recommendations) TimeOut Singapore Art Incubator Residency Exhibition (ICA Singapore) TimeOut Singapore The Weight of Water (Instinc Gallery), TimeOut Singapore CUT 2010 (VWFA), TimeOut Singapore Intrepid Heart, Naked Soul (ArtSpace@Helutrans), TimeOut Singapore Visions: African, Modern, Primitive (AF Gallery), TimeOut Singapore 1x1x1 (FOST Gallery), TimeOut Singapore ArchiFest, (Various Venues) TimeOut Singapore City Stories, (Book Review/ Mobile Imaging), GRAIN

Issue Apr 2011 Issue Mar 2011 Issue Dec 2010 Issue Sep 2010 Issue Jul 2010 Issue Jun 2010 Issue Dec 2009 Issue Mar 2009 Issue Dec 2008 Issue Sep 2008 Issue 9_2004

Gender & Activism

Not Prepared to Wait (On the 2013 verdict of 377A) Fridae.com Police The Criminal, Not the Victim (On SlutWalk) PublicHouse.sg The Silent Threat (On Violence Against Women in Spore) aware.org.sg I Like It in my Status Update ... or do I? (Opinion) aware.org.sg Why we Need to Express Ourselves (Opinion) aware.org.sg Singapore s Clubs Guilty of Discrimination? TimeOut Singapore Art Tells Stories & Womens Stories Need Telling aware.org.sg Apr 2013 Dec 2011 Dec 2010 Oct 2010 Sep 2010 Sep 2010 May 2010

Misc
The Woods That Now Grow www.hedgebrook.org Jan 2012

Published Images / Illustrations

Softblow Cover Page , Singapore Poskod SG: Love in the Time of Binaries Jan 2013, Singapore 2013 2013

Film Projects
Reunion / Art Director & Producer, (Director: Marcia Ong) Threesome / Co-writer: treatment, (Co-writer: Marcia Ong) Phyllis / Writer & Director, (commissioned by Arts Central) S-11 / Wardrobe Manager + Illustrator, (Director: Gilbert Chiang)
2006 2005 2004 2003

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Editorial Projects
Superwomen in Concert Programme Booklet /Editor, AWARE UberNation / Web Editor, Section: online networking site by Samsung Beside, Between, Beyond / Copy editor, Book on Daniel Libeskind Appetites for Litter / Editor, Catalogue, Plastique Kinetic Worms 8th Architecture & Design Awards / Editor, Spore Institute of Architects The Adventures of Lofty de Lizzard, / Editor, Book, Octopus GRAIN / Associate Editor, Regionally distributed magazine 2012 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 Oct 2004 - Jun 2005

Experiences in Education
Lecturer Contemporary Contextual Studies LASALLE College of the Arts Art Educator - Drawing The Substation Facilitator Literary Critique Creative Arts Programme, MOE Art Educator Creative Writing Creative Edge Learning Lecturer - Gray Matters LASALLE College of the Arts Art Educator - Drawing National University of Singapore Society Guest Lecturer Photography & Urban Landscapes Anderson JC Art Educator - ceramics Clay Oracle Art Educator Cartoon Drawing, Red Ink Media, project Art Educator Transfer Printing, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Lecturer ACJC Education Seminar, Little Art Bug Workshop, Art Educator - Little Art Bug Workshop Creative Workshop Facilitator AWARE, domestic abuse survivors April 2010- current 2013 2010 2011 Jul 2009 Apr 2011 Jan-Feb 2011 2007 2004 - 2006 2005 2004 2003 Apr 2003- Jan 2004 2002 Jul 2006-current