Charmaine Poh

Charmaine Poh is a Chinese-Singaporean artist and photographer whose work concerns performativity, memory, and gender.

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Charmaine Poh works across photography, film, and performance to create spaces for narratives that are often unseen and unheard. Central to her practice is considering the performativity of the everyday, and the ways tenderness can be a form of resistance and rebuilding of worlds. Her practice often employs ethnographic methods in working with communities to establish processes of co-authorship and sharing.

Her work has been supported by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, the Singapore International Photography Festival, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, The Taipei Arts Festival, The International Center of Photography, Photoville, WeTransfer, and The New York Times, among others. In 2019, she was recognised as one of Forbes Asia's 30 under 30 - The Arts. She graduated with an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin, and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University.

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