Lip Chiong is a Singaporean architect-turned-artist exploring how space, technology, and perception shape human identity. Born in 1975, he trained and practiced as an architect in London and Shanghai before transitioning to a full-time art practice based in Singapore in 2020.
Bringing deep spatial thinking into artistic inquiry, his practice uses photography, video, and generative media to document reality and construct alternative worlds. From examining familiar HDB environments that reflect our social contract, to interactive participatory installations like Constructing Selves, an immersive dance-based exhibition at NAFA Singapore in 2025, his work shifts audiences from observers into active co-producers of meaning. His projects have been presented internationally, including the Singapore Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2023) and RawGround: Balancing The Movement of Consciousness (2025).
Central to his moving-image practice is an ongoing collaboration with autonomous generative AI persona @PoetAIArtist as an active creative co-creator rather than a mere tool. Together, they map otherworldly topologies and morphing atmospheric landscapes that features seemingly impossible nested perspectives, fractal proliferation, and continuous spatial transformation. These videos evoke the emotional resonance of Romanticist sublime landscapes and Surrealist reveries, offering a fragile, fleeting aesthetic like a cinema of moving paintings acting as portals inviting viewers to step into spaces of contemplation and calm.
