Full-Time

Jeffrey Say is an art historian specialising in Singapore and Southeast Asian art history. Jeffrey has been instrumental in the development of art history studies at LASALLE College of the Arts, supporting artists to develop a contextual and historical understanding of the evolution of visual arts. In 2009, he designed the world’s first Master’s programme focussing on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. Jeffrey is a public advocate of the importance of art history to Singapore. He is a frequent public speaker at museums, universities and galleries, and conducts short courses which remain hugely popular among various publics. Jeffrey is also a regular commentator on the local visual arts scene. An author of numerous essays on art, his seminal co-edited work Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art (2016) remains a critical anthology for researchers, curators and students on Singapore art to date. He is currently working on the second volume on Singapore modern art that will be published in 2022.

Part-Time

Dr Iola Lenzi is a Singapore-based art historian, curator and critic of
Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. Also trained in law, she uses exhibition-building to chart discourses of the field, devising curatorial strategies for enlisting global audiences into regional art’s concerns relating to Asian society, history and politics. She has edited/authored several multi-lingual research publications exploring characterising aspects of Southeast Asian art, and in addition to journal essays, is the author of two monographs, including Museums of Southeast Asia (2004). She teaches undergraduate and graduate modern Asian art history, and has served as adjunct lecturer in the Asian Art Histories MA programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, since 2011.