10 months until 15 years' of Grey Projects!

2023 will mark the 15th year since I started organizing as Grey Projects, which began as a living-room project space to a working library, residency studio and apartment and a full exhibition program. With the different managers Nichole Ho, Renee Ting, Natalie Sim and now Aki Hassan, we've published several artist folios, and books, including Shubigi Rao's Useful Fictions, Lee Wen's Boring Donkey Songs, Gilles Massot's Tints and Dispositions, Vanessa Ban's Click Candy, we've also published prints and editions by Rao, Ezzam Rahman, Mike Chang and others, and taken to Printed Matter, Volume Art Book Fair Sydney, and four editions of Singapore Art Book Fair. We're also proud to have worked with Archifest, NUS Museum, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, and Ilmin Museum of Art, to run workshops, panels, exhibitions and performances on migrant labor, ecological practices, and speculative fiction.

Grey has partnered with Objectifs, Art Incubator, Hangar (Barcelona), Platform3 (Bandung), Casa Tres Patios (Medellin), Asialink (Australia), TAV (Taipei), MMCA (Seoul) for residency projects. Recent international residency partnerships also include Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou (France) and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (Australia). And we're super proud to have created projects and presentations for artists like Amanda Heng, Joshua Yang, Yanyun Chen, Koh Nguang How, Kray Chen, Priyageetha Dia, Vertical Submarine, Song Ming Ang, Gary Carsley, Kent Chan, Marla Bendini, Geraldine Kang, Sookoon Ang and Tan Guo Liang, and many others. We curate a long-running series of annual queer art exhibitions, created the Facing Brownness programme in 2019, cooperated on a mutual aid fund during the pandemic, and also launched the islandwide open studios art walk Walk Walk Don't Run in 2021.

At the end of July 2023, Grey Projects will take a hiatus from active exhibition-making and public programming in Singapore. It's not the end, we'll continue with our residency commitments, and there's other ways to make space for art. But it's time to make space for others, and for other things. Now, we're counting down the 10-months till then with a calendar packed with exciting activities, including the ongoing Post-Repeal queer community programme happening over the months of September to early-November 2022. Come & join us!

– Jason Wee (Founder and Director of Grey Projects)