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Portrait of Shavonne Wong

Shavonne Wong is a Singaporean new media artist working in AI, 3D rendering, and interactive installation.

She began in fashion and advertising photography, then moved into synthetic humans in 3D, and from there into interactive work.

She treats emerging technology as a mirror. Her work asks who we become when machines see, listen, and remember for us, and what we reveal in the conditions under which we extend our trust to them.

Wong's work has been presented at ArtScience Museum Singapore, Art SG, Taipei Dangdai, Art Central Hong Kong, and the Venice Biennale. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2020). Prestige 40 Under 40 (2023). She co-founded NFT Asia and is a member of BLOOM.

In her most recent work Meet Eva Here (2024), thousands of people spoke with a synthetic character through video-call installations and an online chatbot. Those conversations were distilled into 100 Instagram diary posts.

She is currently developing Conditional, a participatory installation exploring the discomfort of being both watched too closely and not seen at all, in which a digital mirror renders the room in full but erases every human from it.

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Artist statement

I treat emerging technology as a mirror.

My work is about who we become when machines see, listen, and remember for us, and about the experiences we share but do not always have words for.

My practice began in fashion and advertising photography, where I learned to construct images with precision and control. I was good at making things look a certain way, but for a long time I did not know how to think about what that beauty meant. I made a lot of very pretty, very boring work.

In recent years, I have become interested in the things we do that do not quite make sense. We say we value privacy but choose convenience every time. We critique AI while depending on it for everything. We build identities online and then discover those identities are shaped by what others have said about us, by algorithms we do not understand, and by archives we cannot access. We claim to want control, yet we are constantly giving it away to systems designed specifically for us.

The old fear was being watched too closely. The newer one is being overlooked entirely.

I am not interested in proving these contradictions are bad or good. I am interested in the moment when you notice you are doing it too, and you realize there is no easy answer, and you keep going anyway because what else can you do.

Meet Eva Here explored how people actually behave with AI, not how we say we would. In Singapore, people made polite small talk with her. In New York, they tried to break her in under a minute. A Korean visitor was upset that she skipped the right honorifics, not because she malfunctioned but because it read as rude. The same system meant something different in every room it was switched on in.

After Ophelia traces how a character who spoke fewer than 60 times in Hamlet was buried under centuries of other people's interpretations, a pattern I recognized when I used LLMs to research myself and found invented information being repeated until it was cited as fact.

I am currently developing Conditional, a participatory installation that explores the contemporary discomfort of being both watched too closely and not seen at all. A digital mirror renders the room in full, except you.

I want people to relate to my work and to understand why I am making it, even if they disagree with me or do not have answers either. I am not trying to solve anything. I am trying to point at things we have normalized without naming them, creating a moment where someone might think "oh, I do that too" or "I have felt that but did not know how to say it."

Whirlwind of the Waking Dream, 2024 3D / generative
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Exhibitions

20261 show
  1. ART SGThe Columns Gallery - Singapore
20258 shows
  1. Meet Eva HerePlatform Project, Taipei Dangdai - TaipeiSolo
  2. EVAThe Columns Gallery - SingaporeSolo
  3. Meet Eva HerePlatform Project, ART SG 2025 - SingaporeSolo
  4. Scenes: The Sensory and Remembered ImageArtverse - Paris Photo - Paris
  5. Artist's Proof: Singapore at 60The Culture Story - Singapore
  6. Talking to MachinesPerformance Lecture, Art Central - Hong Kong
  7. ART SGThe Columns Gallery - Singapore
  8. Digital RhythmDigital Art Fair - Ora-Ora - Hong Kong
20249 shows
  1. Bang & Olufsen Art Showcase ft. Shavonne WongBang & Olufsen - SingaporeSolo
  2. In The EtherArtScience Museum - Singapore
  3. Imagined Realities: Perspectives on ChangeEdge Esmeralda - Healdsburg, CA
  4. Canal St ShowSubjective Art Festival - New York, NY
  5. Tokyo SolidNOX Gallery - Kyoto, Japan
  6. 24 Hours of ArtDigital Art Week, Outernet - London, UK
  7. PhosphorescenceBenzi Studio - Miami, FL
  8. LuxNFT Factory - Paris, France
  9. LuxIHAM Gallery - Paris, France
20238 shows
  1. Shavonne WongNFT Factory - Paris, FranceSolo
  2. Infinite Games: Hello World!Neal Gallery, 798 Art District - Beijing
  3. Sound and Vision IILume Studios - New York, NY
  4. The Bloom: EquinoxC Future City - Shenzhen, China
  5. The Cultural KaleidoscopeSeattle NFT Museum - Seattle, WA
  6. FOR THE CULTURE6529 - artpoint_xyz - Paris, France
  7. W1 Curates x Canary LabsW1 Curates - London, UK
  8. VivatechArtpoint - Paris, France
202222 shows
  1. The Ties That BindUltraSuperNew Gallery - SingaporeSolo
  2. The Times of ChimerasCameroon Pavilion - 59th Venice Biennale - Venice
  3. ART SGThe Columns Gallery - Singapore
  4. SEA FocusThe Columns Gallery - Singapore
  5. International Women's ExhibitionCreative Debuts - Adidas - London, UK
  6. Beijing ContemporaryNeal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
  7. Digital Art Fair AsiaHong Kong
  8. Royal House of Medici M 1563Miami Art Week - Miami, FL
  9. Reaching for the FutureUltraSuperNew Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
  10. A Screen of One's OwnNFT Asia - Superchief Gallery - New York, NY
  11. 6060 ExhibitionNFC Summit - Lisbon, Portugal
  12. NFT AsiaArt Dubai 2022 - Dubai, UAE
  13. BloomOP.?NSPACE - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  14. Digital ParadiseNeal Digital Gallery - Sanya, China
  15. NFT Korea FestivalSeoul, Korea
  16. Future CNeal Digital Gallery - Shenzhen, China
  17. Forever Frame #DANY2023Neal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
  18. A LOOK at CryptoArtContemporary Calgary - Calgary, Canada
  19. The Crypt GalleryNew York, NY
  20. Like to Get to Snow You Wellunpaired.Gallery - Switzerland
  21. Digital Art WeekOuternet - London, UK
  22. Proof of ConceptCo Museum - Singapore
20213 shows
  1. Material SenseThe Columns Gallery - Singapore
  2. The Columns GalleryKiaf Plus - Seoul, Korea
  3. Maybank Foundation x ASEANVirtual exhibition
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Collaborations

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Recognition

Awards & recognition
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia / Arts2020
  • Optimism "We Love The Art" Competition / Top Prize2024
  • Prestige 40 Under 402023
  • TIMEPieces Artist2022
Communities

Member, BLOOM, an artist collective.

Co-founder, NFT Asia, a community dedicated to Asian artists in the NFT space.

Get in touch studio@shavonnewong.art

Singapore / Bangkok / GMT +7 to +8

Full contact card
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Talks & press

Talks & panels 2022 - 2026
Generative Futures: Minds + Machines in Co-Creation 2026 Speaker + panelist / AISDC 2026
AI Imaginaries: Authorship, Creativity, Authenticity 2026 Panelist / Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Talking to Machines 2025 Performance lecture / Art Central, Hong Kong
The Future of AI and Digital Identity 2025 Panelist / ART SG, Singapore
Language, Technology, and Cultural Frictions 2025 Panelist / Taipei Dangdai, Taipei
Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Speaker / CoinDesk, Hong Kong
Art & Tech Summit 2024 Panelist / Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Consensus 2024 2024 Panelist / CoinDesk, Austin, TX
VOICES: The Next Generation 2023 Speaker / Vogue Singapore
HSBC Next Gen Digital 2023 Panelist / Singapore
TEDx 2022 Speaker / Singapore
Motion Plus Design 2022 Speaker / Los Angeles, CA
Press 2021 to 2026
GenAI and Singapore's creative arts 2026 The Straits Times
In Conversation 2025 CNTRFLD.ART
Chat with an AI influencer at ART SG 2025 The Straits Times
On the future of NFTs 2024 CoinDesk
40 Under 40 2023 Prestige
The rise of NFT art 2021 Bloomberg Quicktake
Love is Love on the cover 2021 Tatler Asia

In brief

What kind of artist is Shavonne Wong?
A Singaporean new media artist (b. 1990) making interactive installations and video using AI and 3D rendering. She came up through fashion photography and now builds work about how we are seen, recorded, and erased by machines.
Where has her work been shown?
At the Venice Biennale, ArtScience Museum Singapore, ART SG, Taipei Dangdai, Art Central Hong Kong, and Paris Photo, among others. Solo presentations include EVA at The Columns Gallery and Meet Eva Here at ART SG and Taipei Dangdai.
Is her work available to collect?
Yes, unique works and editions across video, 3D, and print, listed on the available works page. For acquisitions or commissions, write to studio@shavonnewong.art.
What is she working on now?
Conditional (2026), a real-time installation that renders the room without you.