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Rusydan Norr (b. 1998) is a Singapore-based visual artist and designer in-training whose practice explores plants as resources of creativity and contemplation. Having worked across nature-based photographic processes and installations, he is drawn to the various scales of interactions and transformations that occur within and across living systems over time. His on-going inquiry positions sculptural forms as open systems that also act as support structures - substrates shaped by and responsive to natural processes - meditating on conservation and the interdependence between ecological resilience, material decay, and the rhythms of more-than-human life.

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Rusydan graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2019. He has shown numerously in Singapore since and participated in an inter-school exhibition abroad (Kyoto, Japan). Additionally, he has done artist residencies at 405 Arts Residency (SG, 2021), Maison Des Arts George Claude et Pompidou (France, 2022), Isle of Dreams (Okayama, 2024) and Goethe Institute (SG, 2025). As of recently, while developing his art practice, he is studying Biophilic Design in the University of the Arts Singapore and has been awarded a merit scholarship, namely Anugerah Belia Cemerlang (transl. Outstanding Youth Award) by Mendaki Foundation.

Education

 

2019

Diploma in Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

 

Selected Projects

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2023

Leave Nothing But Footprints - A landscape exhibition, Starch SG

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2022

Shooting Home Youth Award, Objectifs

Grounding Commonalities, Hearth (Art Outreach Singapore)

2021

Ext: Open Studios, Starch SG

APAD 50th Exhibition: Rewang, Maya Gallery, Singapore

2019

Winston Oh Travelogue 2019: Another Folded Sunset, Project Space, ICAS

Truth Hates Delays, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, ICAS

Floating Islands Sculpture Week, LASALLE College of the Arts

2018

Actually, Painfully Beautiful, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, ICAS

Limits, Tomo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

 

Residencies

 

2022

Grey Projects-Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou residency exchange, at Maison Daura (St Cirq Lapopie, France)

2021

405 Art Residency, Telok Kurau Studios

 

Awards

 

2019

Anugerah Bawean Cemerlang (Excellent Baweanese Award), by Baweanese Association of Singapore

Winston Oh Travelogue 2019: Another Folded Sunset, LASALLE College of the Arts

2018

‘Search in site’  Collaborative Project Grant, LASALLE College of the Arts

 

Press

 

2021

Rewang at Maya Gallery, by Michelle JN Lim, Plural Art Mag.

Anak Muda Junjung Dalam Budaya Dalam Seni by Haryani Ismail, Berita Harian.

 

2019

Kisah Pondok Bawean di sebalik batu,  by Haryani Ismail, Berita Harian.

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