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| Sherman is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and educator. Straddling fiction and documentary, his films were exhibited in Europe, US, Brazil and Asia and have won awards in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Indonesia and Malaysia. He is an alumnus of the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus 2003 and has premiered works at Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival, Int'l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, International Electronic Art Festival VideoBrasil and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. He was a jury at the La Cittadella del Corto Int’l Short Film Festival, Italy 2004, Substation Reel Revolution 2006, mentor for the Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Competition 2006 and jury for Singapore International Short Film Festival 2008. He is an Associate Artist of the Substation and has conducted workshops in Singapore at Objectifs – Centre for Filmmaking and Photography, Republic Polytechnic, Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore National/History Museum, and in Cambodia together with Antoine d’Agata (Magnum) for young Asian photographers. He has participated in photo-media group exhibition to Singapore, Melbourne, Jakarta, Hanoi, Stuttgart and Berlin under the Goethe Institut ArtConneXions Project (www.goethe.de/artconneXions). He had solo exhibitions in Amsterdam and in the Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia, and group exhibitions in Noorderlicht Int’l Photo Festival, Netherlands, Aranjuez, Spain. In 2007, he is exhibited works at a Biennale on the Tropics in Brazil, PhotoQuai Musee du Quai Branly Paris, Singapore Art Show, and is artist-in-residence at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. In 2008, he presented a feature film Hashi at the Singapore International Film Festival and was commissioned to create a new film work, Flooding in the Time of Drought for the Singapore Biennale. He also presented his works at the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Zeit-Foto Tokyo and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin this year. In 2009, he will present Hashi at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and will be participating in a Visual Arts Biennale in Jakarta and Lithuania. AWARDS/GRANTS/COMMISSIONS Singapore Government ASEAN Scholarship (1989-1990) Singapore Film Commission Bursary (2001) Associate Artist, Substation (since 2002) Asia-Europe Foundation Young Photographer’s Forum Singapore (2002) Asia-Europe Foundation Cultural Exchange (2007) Awards for Exodus - Wanita Yang Berlari (29 mins 53 sec, Indonesia/Singapore, Oct 2003) 10th Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards 2005 (Special Jury Prize) 6th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers Greece 2004 (Best Experimental Film) Malaysian Video Awards 2004(Special Jury Prize) Q Film Festival Jakarta, Indonesia 2003 (Runner's Up Audience Award) Award for The Ground I Stand (24 min 20 sec, Singapore, 2002) 7th Malaysian Video Awards for Best Documentary, 2002 60s Now (118 mins, Singapore March 2002) commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum 60’s Now, Singapore Heritage Festival, Singapore Art Museum 2002 HDB Housing Project(5 mins, Singapore Nov 2006) commissioned by National Museum Singapore for the History Gallery RESIDENCIES - Goethe Institut Art Connexions Residency (www.goethe.de/artconneXions)2005 - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Japan 2007 ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES/WORKSHOPS Workshop/Talk on Dance Film in Jakarta, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Solo, Surabaya, supported by British Council Indonesia, 2004. Guerrilla Filmmaking Workshop, Singapore History Museum 2006 Artist Talk, Nanyang Technological University Singapore 2006 Workshop for Young Asian Photographers, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia 2006 Panel Discussion on Contemporary Art, Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam 2006 Artist Talk/Workshop, Republic Polytechnic Singapore 2007 Artist Talk, Biopolis Singapore 2007 Artist Talk: Art, Life and Identity, Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University 2007 Workshops for Secondary Schools, a Salvation Army Project, Singapore 2007 Artist Talk/Workshop, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 2007 Digital Homelands, Singapore National Museum 2008 Filmmaking Workshop, National University Singapore 2008 Month of Photography Asia Panel Discussion, Singapore Art Museum & 2902 Gallery Singapore 2008 Artist Talk, Rojak 11/Farm, 2902 Gallery Singapore 2008 Artist Talk, NUS Museum, Singapore 2008 More information at: http://www.shermanong.com http://shermanong.blogspot.com http://hashithefilm.blogspot.com http://www.singaporebiennale.org/artists.php http://www.vwfa.net/CUT/sherman.html http://www.noorderlicht.com/eng/fest06/asian-photogr.html http://mus-mus.org/at600/mm_photos.html http://en.photography-now.com/artists/K22206.html |