Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 18 November 2025–20 February 2026

Jason Wee is an artist and a writer based in Singapore, working in the fields between contemporary art, architecture, poetry and photography. His practice contends with sources of singular authority in favour of polyphony and difference. He turns these histories and spaces into visual and written works, exploring their hidden stories and possible futures.

Photo: Emmeline Y

Jason Wee

Wee is also the founder and director of directs Grey Projects (@greyprojectssg, 2008-), an artist space and library that focuses on curatorship, new writing, design propositions and art. Being keenly interested in relationality between artists, and the relationalities that artists generate, Wee recently co-founded a queer community and cultural centre Proud Spaces (@proudspacescentre, 2023-present) in Singapore.

At IASPIS, Wee will continue his multiyear research on the cannibal figure, regional urban histories, and changing notions of the people.  During his residency he is keen to explore the collections of Asian objects in Swedish cities from the time of the Swedish East Indies Company and after. As part of the project, he will also be writing new poems and a performance lecture script.

He is the author of four poetry collections, including From A (Undesirable) Diary (Temporary Press and Dakota Press, Singapore 2024), shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, and the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize finalist In Short, Future Now (Sternberg Press, Berlin 2020). He is represented by Ames Yavuz Gallery, London and Singapore.

His art is recently seen in the Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2024), SAVVY Contemporary (2024), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2022), Other Futures Festival, Amsterdam (2023) and past exhibitions include: Para Site, Hong Kong (2021), the Chelsea Art Museum, the 1st Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA (2020), ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2019), the 6th Singapore Biennale (2019), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Germany (2015, 2009), Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2015) and amongst others.

Instagram: @jasewee, @sg.queermemory
Website: jasonwee.com