Many Singaporean artists were important teachers and
mentors working in the main at the National University of
Singapore and LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. Although
painting is, as in most places, the most dynamic area of art in
general, sculpture has had a good following in Singapore.
Practitioners include Ng Eng Teng, Chong Fah Cheong and Teo
Eng Seng. Singaporean artists such as Chandrasekaran, who taught
at LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, became known for
performance art. Matthew Ngui, an artist born in 1962 who
studied with Ng Eng Teng, has had wide exposure internationally
for his interactive installations, which include performance and
video art, examining intercultural communication. His work has
been seen at the Kassel Documenta X in 1997 (the only
Singaporean and one of the few Asians ever exhibited there). He
has also been in Cities on the Move, the Sao Paulo Biennale
and the Venice Biennale.6 Among contemporary women artists,
Suzann Victor and Amanda Heng are probably the best known.