RESIDENCIES
2024 Art:Dis Singapore Art Residency, in partnership with Singapore Art Museum
2023 ARTEFACT Residency, in collaboration with Kyongsu Kathy Han, Caroline Chin, and Tan Weiying, Dance Nucleus, Singapore
Youth in Loop, Exactly Foundation, Singapore
2022 In Transit Digital Residency
2021 Seven Bodies and the Talking Sea, Co-learning Platform, Moss Piglets, Taiwan
Presence of Mind, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Digital Residency, Australia, Singapore
Dance Nucleus’ ELEMENT Research Residency in June/July 2021, Singapore
2020 Associate Artist Programme (2020/2021), The Substation, Singapore
2019 - 2020 Artist in Residence at NTU CCA, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016 Artist in Residence at The Substation, Singapore
2015 Invited artist for Transaction in the Field, Lostgens, Kuala Lumpur
2015 Artist in Residence at Ketemu Project Space, Bali
2012 Artist in Residence at Bamboo Culture Studio, Emerging Artist Program, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Artist at Residence at Universita' delle Idee, Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy
Artist at Residence at La Pigna, San Remo, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Jill J. Tan, Arts Approaches to Death in Singapore: Considering Universality, Cultural Mediation, and Everyday Immersion, Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City, Routledge (2024)
Jill J. Tan, Embodied Futurities: Alecia Neo’s Socially Engaged Art Practice with Caregivers in Singapore, Forms for Encounter & Exchange: Artist-led approaches to public pedagogy in the Asia Pacific region, a special edition of the Journal of Public Pedagogies, Journal of Public Pedagogies, Number 7 (Australia, 2023)
Minna Valjakka, Contemporary Arts in and for Civil Society, Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, (London, 2023)
Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, Social Practice Art in Singapore: Creative Approaches Towards Participation and Social Amelioration, Reimagining Singapore: Self and Society in Contemporary Art, Springer Singapore (2023)
Alecia Neo and Jill J. Tan, Care Index: attuning to care infrastructures and movements, The Listening Biennial Reader, vol 1: Waves of Listening, (Berlin, 2023)
Yang Yeung, To Keep Secrets for a Shareable Future, The Listening Biennial Reader, (Berlin, 2021)
Yang Yeung, Committing to care - fragments of a diary touched by Alecia Neo’s Care Index, FUSE Dance Nucleus, (Singapore, 2021)
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, "Moving beyond the art-as-service paradigm: The evolution of arts and disability in Singapore", Chap 8, 2018
DECK, "Seenthesis: Visual Literacy through Singapore Photography", Singapore 2019
Trafford Publishing, "The Art of Anti-Exclusion", CCD, Singapore 2018
Goethe-Intitut, "Art In Context: Learning from the Field", Germany, 2017
Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art, "Arts-based Community Engagement in Singapore: Success Stories, Challenges, and the Way Forward", Chap 18, Dec 2016
BRACKmag, "Unseen: Conversations Across the Constellation", Singapore, 2016
Singapore Disability Sports Council (Singapore), “Dreams, The Living and The Pursuit”, SDSC, 2011
Ascendas Pte Ltd (Singapore), “Infinite Spaces”, SPH Magazines Pte Ltd, 2011
Magazines
ICON (Singapore), "Young Artist Award", Dec 2016
NUYOU Time (Singapore), “Emerging Talents”, Sept 2012
WERK No.19 Club 21 CDCG (Singapore & Tokyo), “Female Muscle”
Female Magazine (Singapore), “Snapshots”, Pg. 58, Oct 2011
Female Magazine (Singapore), “Taking on the classics”, Pg. 130, Oct 2011
The PEAK Magazine (Singapore), “A Home to Remember”, Pg. 138 – 143, Aug 2011
Female Magazine (Singapore), "View From Venus", Pg. 63, June 2009
Newspaper
Merit Times (Taiwan), “Breaking Through 130cm of Confinement: Learning Photography with your senses”, Feb 2013
The Straits Times (Singapore), Life!, “Posters for Posterity”, Jan 2013
La Nuova Provincia di Biella (Italy), “Le Idee In Progress Di UNIDEE – Lessons with Mao (Alecia Neo)”, Oct 2012
The Straits Times (Singapore), Life!, “Keeping the Faith”, Pg. Cover Story, Feb 2012
The Straits Times (Singapore), “Welcome to my living room”, Pg. C4, Feb 2012
TODAY (Singapore), “Private becomes Public”, Pg. T2-T3, Feb 2012
The Straits Times (Singapore), Life!, “Art Raze Against Time”, Pg. E2, Aug 2011
The Straits Times (Singapore), Life!, “Imagine Nation”, Pg. C4-C5
TODAY (Singapore), “An Arts House”, Pg. T6, July 2011
The Business Times Weekend (Singapore), “The Writing on the Wall”, Pg. L10-L11, July 2011
The Straits Times (Singapore), “My Weekend”, Pg. D11, Mar 2011
My Paper (Singapore), “捕捉生活精彩”, Pg.B8-B9, Oct 2010
My Paper (Singapore), “6月看亞洲好攝佳作”, Pg. B10 – B11, June 2010
The Straits Times (Singapore), Life!, “Freeze-framing hard times”, Pg. C7, Aug 2009
Web
Plural Art Mag, "Tradition in a (betel)nutshell: Thoughts on ramah-tamah"
Object Lessons Space, "On Histories of Hospitality"
Female Magazine, "Ways of Seeing: Singapore Image-Makers"
Channel News Asia, "Empowering lives through Expression", https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/brandstudio/singaporeyouthaward/changemakers/alecia-neo, Sept 2019
The A List (Singapore), "The power of “now”: live well to leave well", https://www.a-list.sg/the-power-of-now-live-well-to-leave-well/, June 2019
Harper's Bazaar, "Back for Good", https://www.pressreader.com/, Jan 2019
Artsequator, "“Closer” at Both Sides, Now: What Do We Choose to Remember?", https://artsequator.com/closer-both-sides-now/, Oct 2018
Artswok Collaborative, "Exploring Community Development from an Artist’s Perspective" https://artswok.org/article/an-interview-with-alecia-neo-exploring-community-development-from-an-artists-perspective/, Dec 2018
On Art and Aesthetics, "Home Visits: Alecia Neo explores hospitality, connection and trust", https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/08/16/home-visits-alecia-neo-explores-hospitality-connection-and-trust/, Aug 2018
Lifestyle Asia, "State of Art: 5 art prizes shaking up the culture scene", https://www.lifestyleasia.com/sg/culture/art-design/state-art-5-art-prizes-shaking-culture-scene/, 2017
Word of Mouth, "Singapore Writer's Festival Returns", https://rafflespress.com/2017/09/19/singapore-writers-festival-returns/, 2017
Lifestyle Asia, "New blood: 5 young Singaporean artists to watch", https://www.lifestyleasia.com/sg/culture/art-design/5-young-singaporean-artists-watch/, Dec 2016
TODAY (Singapore), "The young and the ... artsy" https://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/young-and-artsy, Oct 2016
The Straits Times (Singapore), "Young Artist Award recipients", https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/young-artist-award-recipients, Oct 2016
BRACK, "Education and Disability: Between Inclusion and Support", http://www.brack.sg/index.php/2016/04/01/unseen-conversations-across-the-constellation-education-and-disability/, April 2016
The Straits Times (Singapore), "See the dreams of the visually impaired", https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/see-the-dreams-of-the-visually-impaired, March 2016
COBO, "To see Art with Eyes Closed", https://www.cobosocial.com/art-and-design/to-see-with-eyes-closed/, March 2016
Asiaone, "Telling stories with light and touch", https://www.asiaone.com/telling-stories-light-and-touch, March 2016
Singapore International Foundation, "Unseen Connections", https://singaporemagazine.sif.org.sg/unseen-connections
National Arts Council, Young Artist Award, https://www.nac.gov.sg/naccorp/dam/jcr:18eb4e19-e637-4d52-81dd-06227d4aa8b4, 2016
Scout: Emerging Practices, https://www.scoutsgp.org/alecia-neo, Jan 2016
OH! Open House, "Garden of Being (2015), https://ohopenhouse.org/Garden-of-Being-2015-by-Alecia-Neo, 2015
Singapore Art Museum, "Sensorium 360° Contemporary Art and the Sensed World", https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/-/media/sam/files/exhibitions/sensorium360/sensorium_shortguide_140721.pdf, 2014
Times (Taiwan), “Visually impaired learn photography: Reading the world with the senses”, Feb 2013
(Singapore), “We RAT on four S’pore Fringe Fest artists!”, Feb 2012
Avenue (Singapore), “M1 Fringe Festival: This Week’s Survival Guide”, http://www.feveravenue.com/m1-fringe-festival-this-weeks-survival-guide/, Feb 2012
(Singapore), “For Art’s Sake! The RAT’s Top Picks for 2011!”, http://blogs.todayonline.com/forartssake/2011/12/26/the-rats-top-picks-for-2011/#more-4120, Dec 2011
(Singapore), “Arts housing! SG ♥ MY?!”, http://blogs.todayonline.com/forartssake/tag/villa-alicia/, Aug 2011
JAYs (Sweden), “c-JAYS on a plate (but not for eating)”, http://jays.se/blog/jays/c-jays-on-a-plate-but-not-for-eating.html, Aug 2011
POSKAD (Singapore), “Poskad: Villa Alicia – The handwriting on the wall”, http://poskod.sg/Posts/2011/8/6/POSKAD-Villa-Alicia, Aug 2011
CNNgo, (Singapore), “Getting Creative: Looking back to old Singapore for inspiration”, http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/shop/creative-singapore-looking-back-old-singapore-inspiration-025151, Aug 2011
Artitute (Singapore), “Villa Alicia: An Invitatition to the Last House Party”, http://artitute.com/2011/08/11/villa-alicia-an-invitation-to-the-last-house-party/, Aug 2011
JUICE Magazine (Singapore), “Villa Alicia”, http://www.juice.com.sg/art/villa-alicia/, Aug 2011
Plussixfive (Singapore), “Villa Alicia, 43 Binjai Parl”, http://www.plussixfive.com/2011/08/03/villa-alicia-43-binjai-park/, Aug 2011
Culturepush (Singapore), “Exhibition: Villa Alicia”, http://culturepush.com/2011/07/29/exhibition-villa-alicia/, July 2011
Civic Life: Tiong Bahru (Singapore), “The personal treasures, private rituals and aspirations of home”, http://civiclifetiongbahru.com/2011/05/29/the-personal-treasures-private-rituals-and-the-aspirations-of-home/, May 2011
Featureshoot (USA), “Q&A: Alecia Neo, Singapore” http://www.featureshoot.com/2009/09/qa-alecia-neo-singapore/, Sept 2009
Culturepush (Singapore), “Spotted! Alecia Neo”, http://culturepush.com/2009/01/25/edit-spotted-alecia-neo/, Sept 2009
Television & FILm
Singapore Mental Health Film Festival, "Between Earth and Sky". 2019
Channel News Asia, "On The Red Dot: Friends for a Better World", 2016
Life Extraordinaire 寻找毅中人 - EP6, featuring Unseen: Constellations
Channel U (Singapore), “艺术大声说 Vocals of the Arts: Loving Again”, Episode 6/6, Nov 2011, featuring Villa Alicia.
Okto (Singapore/Laos), “The Traveling Palette”, Aug 2007