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4th 店面 Artist-in-Residence: Singha Hon

Winter 2020

A woman in a red top talking and gesturing with her hand inside a colorful store, with vases and posters on the wall, and a bouquet of flowers in the foreground.

Singha Hon (韩星霞) is a mixed-race artist and illustrator born and raised in New York City, with roots in Pennsylvania and NYC's Chinatown. Singha has studied painting, costuming, and theatre at Bates College in Lewiston and at Central Saint Martins in London. She is one of the founding illustrators for Womanly Magazine, an organization that provides accessible health information to women and non-binary people through visual and literary art. As a painter and illustrator, she creates work aimed at exploring inner thoughts and private experiences, combining small details of everyday life with images inspired by mythology and animal archetypes, weaving together the universal and the personal.

Singha Hon 韩星霞

A digital illustration of a person dressed as the Wizard of Oz riding on a turtle's back, holding a tray of colorful candies. 
ABOUT THE PROJECT
A group of people inside an antique shop, with one woman wearing a pig mask and holding a sketchbook, and others observing and taking photos.

Singha’s proposal explores the following questions: who are you and who am I? How am I seen and how would I like to be seen? What does it mean to change faces to survive? What does it mean to change faces to thrive and find peace? During the residency, Singha will utilize the model of community workshops -- focused on portraiture, self-portraiture, and mask making (using paper mache) -- to encourage participants to create new types of images of themselves and find agency in those images.

Two women sitting on the ground in a park, one appears to be conversing with the other who is taking notes in a notebook. There are people in the background walking and sitting on benches.
Two women are inside a store with shelves filled with Chinese and Japanese ceramics. The woman on the right is talking and gesturing with her hands, wearing a black sweater and a blue skirt. The woman on the left is listening, wearing glasses, a colorful shawl, and a yellow top.