FARIZWAN FAJARI
Curriculum Vitae 2026
Farizwan Fajari
b, 1980
[email protected]EDUCATIONBAFA (Painting), LASALLE College of the ArtsEXHIBITION HISTORY
Solo Exhibitions2025 GHOSTNOTES, Art Outreach, Singapore2021 The Weight of Water, Bulles En Tête, Paris, France
2019 Open My Heart, Ease My Task, Loosen The Knot On My Tongue, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore2017 Knives In The Water, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore2015 Sorry, Not Sorry, Officina Delle Zattere, Venice, Italy2007 Unseen, Straits Records, SingaporeGroup Exhibitions / Special Projects2026 PULSE 2, Haridas Contemporary, Singapore
2026 ROOTS, The Bridge Gallery, Singapore2025 Lines Of Influence, Art Outreach, Singapore
2025 TRESPASSERS, Daimaru Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2023 FLIPSIDE, Aliwal Urban Art Festival, Aliwal Art Centre, Singapore
2023 Urban Screens, Singapore Art Week, Fortune Centre, Singapore2022 An Ocean Without The Anchor, Singapore Night Festival, Singapore
2022 The Same Side Of The Moon Always Faces Earth, Singapore Art Week, Singapore2021 BEHOME (with ADDADDADD), Children’s Biennale, National Gallery, Singapore2020 Akai Nu Agata, Pin-Up Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
2020 Where The Sidewalk Ends, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
2020 Somewhere Out There, Lite-On 2020, Downtown East, Singapore
2020 Streets Of Hope, Singapore2019 Sing Along If You Know The Words, The Substation, Singapore
2019 In All Directions, Esplanade, Singapore
2019 Crossing Shores, Singapore Bicentennial Public Art Commission, Singapore
2019 Light To Night Festival, National Gallery, Singapore2019 In The Clouds, Artwalk Little India, as part of Singapore Art Week, Singapore2018 Koganecho Art Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
2018 Atypical, Flacon, Moscow, Russia
2018 Art From The Streets, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2018 Anatomy Of A Heartbreak (with Kaizen MD and APE Studio), ArtScience Museum, Singapore2017 1st Kuala Lumpur Biennale, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017 80by80, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
2017 Artling Pop-Up 2017, Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore
2017 Cannot Be Bo(a)rdered, ESpace Commines, Paris, France
2017 Hemera’s Feast, Civic District Outdoor Festival, Singapore
2017 Move ____, As We Move (with Kaizen MD), Singapore2016 All That Is Left Behind, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016 The Tribe, O.P.E.N Festival, Singapore2015 Secret Archipelago, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2015 These Sacred Things, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
2015 Singapore: Inside Out, 751 D.Park (Locomotive Square), Beijing, China
2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Brick Lane Yard, London, England
2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Madison Square Park, New York, USA
2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Tan Quee Lan, Singapore2014 Budi Daya, Malay Heritage Centre, Singapore
2014 Modern Love, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2014 Public Order, Kingswell, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014 Minor Cities, The Esplanade, Singapore2013 If The World Changed, 4th Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2013 One’s Needs, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore
2013 Read Carefully, Kult Gallery, Singapore
2013 Our Museum @ Taman Jurong, Singapore
2013 Mentor for the Apprenticeship Programme for NOISE (2013 - 2016), Singapore2012 Future Proof, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2012 We Set The Pace, The Substation Gallery, Singapore
2012 Instinctively, The Pigeonhole, Singapore
2012 CON[TEXT], NUS Museum, Singapore2011 Slow & Steady, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011 The Resistance Movement, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2011 Synesthesia, The Post Museum, Singapore
2011 Superheroes, D-Structure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 This Is A Photo Opportunity, (in conjunction with Meeting at SEA), Singapore Art Museum2010 REDRUM, The Gallery at Old School, Singapore2009 Love Is A Dog From Hell, 15 Minutes, Singapore
2009 U-Turn For A Change, Yaddo Art Gallery, Singapore
2009 RE: PRESENT, Singapore Management University, Singapore
2008 Emerging Asia, Kepco Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Le Monde Est Nous 05, Night and Day Gallery, Singapore
2008 Singapore Contemporary Young Artists, Sculpture Square, Singapore
2006 Off The Wall, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2006 The Very Hairy Belly Jelly Show, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore2005 VOICES, Ngee Ann Kongsi, SingaporeTEXTS2018 Art From The Streets, Exhibition Catalogue2016 Singapore’s Visual Artists, Artist Directory, Published by the National Arts Council2015 Secret Archipelago, Exhibition Catalogue2013 The National Archives, Monograph, Published by Math Paper Press
2013 Visual Culture 02/Urban Peels, Published by the Singapore Art Museum
2013 If The World Changed, Singapore Biennale Exhibition Catalogue, Published by the Singapore Art Museum2012 All Rights Reserved, Published by Society62012 Ceriph #5, Published by Kaleido Press2012 Future Proof, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by the Singapore Art Museum2011 Illogic Issue, Göoo Magazine
2011 Hey Magazine No 7COLLECTIONS
Permanent Murals
-Salamanca Arts Center, Hobart/nipaluna, Tasmania, Australia
-The Esplanade, Singapore
-Filmhouse, Singapore
-Palais De Tokyo, Paris, FrancePrivate Collections-works held in private collections in Australia, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom and USA.RESIDENCIES2020 Salamanca Arts Center, Hobart/nipaluna, Tasmania, Australia2018 Koganecho Art Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan2015 Cite Internationale De Paris, Paris, France2013 AGIT, Busan, South Korea
ABOUTFarizwan Fajari, or sometimes known as Speak Cryptic, is an artist and musician currently working and living in Singapore.Inspired by the visual language prevalent within various alternative subcultures such as punk and skateboarding, his works primarily deals with issues pertaining to the human condition. Utilising personal iconographies and a cast of characters that he has developed since 2005, he applies them to various narratives inspired by his observations on current affairs and his immediate environment."Endless manifestations of the self are a feature of Speak Cryptic’s work - identity rippling forth through texts and phrases extracted from punk lyrics, intricate patterns and figures. His drawings, paintings and installations stem from inquiries into ancestral migration, ethnic dislocation, gentrification and alternative subcultures." - Deborah Lim, Curator.Since 2023, his work entered a new phase: an ongoing visual investigation that functions as a reaction to personal history. Experiences that have been witnessed, felt, and reconciled are translated into organic, angular, strange forms and presented as a landscape. Part memory, part topography.Exhibitions include the Kuala Lumpur Biennale (2017), Koganecho Art Bazaar (Yokohama, Japan, 2018), Secret Archipelago (Paris, France, 2015) and Future Proof (Singapore, 2012). Speak Cryptic was also one of the artists commissioned for the Singapore Art Biennale in 2013, with his work “Fenomena”, installed at the National Library.As a musician, he has performed and composed with several bands in Singapore since 1993, such as the Sugarflies, Dyfectra, Fishtank, Marchtwelve, Concave Scream and I Am David Sparkle. More recently, he has been active in creating musical and soundscape compositions, releasing them under the moniker Primary Motif, as an aural accompaniment to his visual works.He currently teaches at the School of the Arts, Singapore as part of their Visual Arts Faculty.*The moniker "Speak Cryptic" came from a public art campaign of the same name that started in 2005, exploring issues pertaining to self-censorship and the relationship with the public space.
