SAW FORUM 2026: 
FORCE · FIELDS

Claire Bishop
Presidential Professor
City University New York Graduate Center

Claire Bishop, Presidential Professor of Art History, is widely considered to be an original thinker and creative interpreter of contemporary art, as well as a dynamic teacher. Her book Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship won the College Art Association’s 2013 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. In 2024 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and published two books: Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and Merce Cunningham’s Events: Key Concepts. Her books and articles have been translated into twenty languages, and she is a Contributing Editor to Artforum.

Patrick Flores
Chief Curator
National Gallery Singapore

Patrick Flores is Chief Curator of National Gallery Singapore and concurrently Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network, and was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in 2014, Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and Curator of the Philippine and Taiwan Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2015 and 2022 respectively. His writing and research on the art of Southeast Asia are widely published and cited.

Amanda Heng
Artist

Amanda Heng is a pioneering contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, photography, and participatory art. Heng is known for her body-centric works that interrogate gender roles, societal expectations, and lived memory through everyday gestures.

A founding member of The Artists Village (1988) and Women in the Arts (1999), Heng has been pivotal in shaping Singapore’s contemporary and feminist discourse. Her work has been featured in major biennales and performance art festivals, including Bangkok Art Biennale (2024), Singapore Biennale (2006, 2019), and the inaugural Women’s Performance Art Festival in Osaka (2001).

Heng received Singapore’s Cultural Medallion (2010) and the Benesse Prize (2020) and was inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (2023).

Selene Yap
Curator
Singapore Art Museum

Selene Yap is a Curator at SAM. Her curatorial practice follows a situational approach, developing research and exhibitions in close dialogue with artists whose work respond to the contingencies and particularities of place, process and memory. Yap has curated significant solo and joint presentations of artists Pratchaya Phinthong (No Patents on Ideas, 2024), Simryn Gill & Charles Lim Yi Yong (The Sea is a Field, 2024), Ho Tzu Nyen (Time & the Tiger, 2023), and Joo Choon Lin (Dance in the Destruction Dance, 2023). She previously held research roles at the Future Cities Laboratory and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She also served as Programme Manager for Visual Arts at The Substation, supporting exhibitions and initiatives that sought to defy conventional use of the arts space.

Adriano Pedrosa
Artistic Director
Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis
Chateaubriand

Adriano Pedrosa is artistic director of MASP. He has curated many biennials including the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 and the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2012.At MASP he has curated solo shows of artists such as Tarsila do Amaral and Hélio Oiticica, as well as the ongoing series devoted to different histories, such as Histories of Childhood (2016), Histories of Sexuality (2017), Afro Atlantic Histories (2018). He has recently been appointed 2023 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, given by the Central for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. He has published in Arte y Parte (Santander), Artforum (New York), Art Nexus (Bogotá), Bomb (New York), Exit (Madrid), Flash Art (Milan), Frieze (London), Lapiz (Madrid), Manifesta Journal (Amsterdam), Mousse (Milan), Parkett (Zurich), The Exhibitionist (Berlin), among others.

Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Chief Curator
Singapore Art Museum

Shabbir Hussain Mustafa is Chief Curator at the Singapore Art Museum, where he oversees the museum’s programming at its new post-industrial spaces, together with the Singapore Biennale Office. From 2023 to 2025, he was Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, contributing to the development of the museum’s curatorial framework for itsexhibitions and collection strategy. He has also held senior curatorial roles at National Gallery Singapore, where from 2016 to 2022 he led Between Declarations and Dreams, a multi-year exhibition on Southeast Asian modernisms. He curated SEA STATE: Charles Lim Yi Yong for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), co-curated the Dhaka Art Summit (2018), and received the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Award in 2017 for his curatorial work. Recent projects include Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America (2023), which reimagined the 20th century through entangled solidarities and cross-regional affinities, and Ho Tzu Nyen: Timeand the Tiger (2023), a mid-career survey focused on algorithmic imaginaries and speculative histories.

Diana Campbell
Chief Curator, Dhaka Art Summit
& Artistic Director, Bukhara Biennale

Diana Campbell is the Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial, Recipes for Broken Hearts, launching in September 2025.

Campbell is the Founding Artistic Director of the Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh, a leading South Asian institution dedicated to fostering the growth of local artists and creating opportunities for profound encounters with Bangladesh. She is the Chief Curator of its flagship project, the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), having led its critically acclaimed editions from 2014 to 2023, and is currently envisioning the 2026 edition.

As Head of Global Initiatives of the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam, she works across expanded notions of collecting, commissioning and collaborating, and is part of the facilitation group of AFIELD, a global network of socially engaged artistic initiatives.