Lip Chiong is an architect-turned-artist using AI technology as a medium to create otherworldly environments in the form of immersive still and moving images. He is exploring emotive and sensorial worlds that elicit thoughts and feelings unimaginable by humans alone.
His art works are currently on show at the Venice Biennale 2023 Singapore Pavilion “When is Enough, Enough?”.
Lip is a UK chartered architect. He is winner of the 2014 Radical Innovation Award Grand Prize and the Golden A’ Design Award 2017. Lip is the founder of design firm Studio Twist based in Shanghai between 2007 and 2020.
Between 2003-2006, Lip worked in ARUP’s Advanced Geometry Unit in London led by Cecil Balmond and Charles Walker, where he was project architect on projects such as the glass ceiling installation in the British Pavilion with David Adjaye for Chris Ofili in the 2003 Venice Biennale, and the 2005 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Alvaro Siza in London.
Lip graduated from Architectural Association Diploma School in London in 2002 and National University of Singapore in 1999. In his youth, Lip studied Higher Art in the Art Elective Programme during his O’levels and A’levels.
Lip taught at the National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment as a Lecturer and Design Tutor (2019-2021). Lip also taught as a guest tutor for the Urban Planning Faculty at the Tongji University in Shanghai (2007-2008).