The Collectors Show: Chimera
Hardcover with Jacket, 110 pages
Retail Price: $30
ISBN: 978-981-07-1092-7

The Collectors Show brings together notable works of Asian contemporary art from private collections around the world. A tribute to the art patrons of today, the exhibition offers an insight into the breadth and remarkable richness of private art collections, and the unique and highly personal visions and passions that shape them.

This publication presents both artist and collector statements about the works featured in The Collectors Show: Chimera.

The Singapore Show: Future Proof
Hardcover with Jacket, 112 pages
Retail Price: $30
ISBN: 978-981-07-1093-4

Future Proof features almost 40 artworks from exciting young Singapore artists whose strong and consistent presence in the local and international contemporary art landscape has helped enliven the local creative scene and inspired many other local artists. The works featured look at the performance of the body and identity in the context of Singapore, and also of subcultures that flourish beneath the mainstream. Following social, political and cultural shifts, the confidence and incisive focus of these artists
are undeniable.

This catalogue contains essays by Khairuddin Hori, Tan Boon Hui, David Chew and Zaki Razak that explore the various premises that have influenced the practices of these artists and the development of contemporary art in the last three decades.

Visual Culture 01: The Portraiture Issue
Magazine, 98 pages
Retail Price: $16.90
ISBN: 2251-1504

Visual Culture is an exhibition in print project by SAM published twice yearly. As part of SAM’s shift towards contemporary art, this publication project acknowledges the rise of predominantly visual forms of media, communication and information exchange in recent years. It is an emergent field of inquiry that combines aspects of art history, cultural anthropology, critical theory, philosophy as well as media and performance.

The inaugural issue explores the theme of portraiture in photography. The dual nature that resides within the medium, of what is ‘real’ and what is ‘represented’, is a source of inquiry that is examined through photographic composition. By looking at the plethora of photographic images constructed, from early 20th century ethnological photographs to contemporaneous ones made digitally, Visual Culture 01 aims to provide possible ways of looking at the medium in order to make its readers think more intently about photography and its place within contemporary art.

Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011
Hardcover with Jacket, 157 page
Retail Price: $40
ISBN: 978-981-07-0284-7

From Australia to Mongolia, New Zealand to Pakistan, the contemporary art of the Asia Pacific stands out for its complexity, richness and sheer diversity. The Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize is a juried award that recognises the region's single most outstanding contemporary visual artwork produced in the preceding three years.

The APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 catalogue is a handsome hardbound and fully illustrated publication that features the 130 artworks nominated for the second edition of the Prize. It serves as an excellent survey to some of the most important artworks to emerge from the Asia Pacific region in the last three years, including key works by established and emerging artists. The catalogue also features a curatorial essay, write-ups and statements by the 15 finalist artists and nominators, offering fascinating insights into their works.

Hyung Koo Kang:
The Burning Gaze
Paperback, 120 pages
Retail Price: $25
ISBN: 978-981-08-9994-3

Hyung Koo Kang: The Burning Gaze documents and charts the practice of the highly regarded artist that has spanned over two decades. An interview with the artist reveals his motivations and intentions, while the essays in the exhibition catalogue closely analyse the unconventional techniques and skill that go into his paintings, resulting in his hyper-realistic portraits. Over 30 recent paintings are featured, including new works that have never been published before, along with caricature sketches and clay sculptures that the artist has used in his process of mastering the art of portraiture.

Singapore Contemporary Artists:
Amanda Heng: Speak To Me,
Walk With Me
Paperback, 228 pages
Retail Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-981-07-0087-4

Singapore Contemporary Artists Series: Amanda Heng: Speak To Me, Walk With Me offers acomprehensive view of Heng’s diverse practice.The publication features essays which studyher work from various domains of inquiry bycurators, scholars and art commentators. Withmore than 50 full-coloured artwork plates anddocumentation images from her vast oeuvre, thepublication explores topics such as the receptionof performance art, national identity, participationin art-making, feminist art and collaborativepractices in Heng’s works.

The Singapore Contemporary Artists Series  focusses on documenting and providing criticalcommentary on the practices of significantcontemporary artists from Singapore. Dedicatedto enlarging discourse and scholarship oncontemporary art, the series also servesas an accessible introduction to the vibrantcontemporary art scene in Singapore.

Singapore Biennale 2011 Catalogue
(Three Ring binder in slipcase, 308 pages)
Publication date: 2011
Retail price: $60
ISBN: 978-981-08-8050-7

Featuring write-ups on each of the 63 Biennale artists, essays from invited academics and insightful notes from the Biennale curatorial team, this fully illustrated publication goes beyond the scope of the traditional exhibition catalogue. Presented in the form of a distinctive binder and slipcase folio which allows individual catalogue sections to be taken out or added in, the handsome publication is specially designed by New York firm Goto Design. In line with the Biennale's exploration of the notion of "Open House", the catalogue also features a special section focussing on the art-making process. The catalogue includes contributions from Chua Beng Huat, David Elliott, Patrick Flores, Hou Hanru, Susie Lingham, Matthew Ngui, Ruth Noack, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Russell Storer, Trevor Smith, Yao Souchou and numerous other writers.

Video, an Art, a History 1965 – 2010
A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections
(Hardback, 272 pages)
Publication date: June 2011
Retail price: $80
ISBN 9789810884932

This accompanying publication to the exhibition Video, an Art, a History 1965–2010. A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections brings together studies on video art from Western Europe, the Americas and East Asia. It also introduces recent investigations into video as an emerging artistic practice in Southeast Asia. Ten essays in this publication comprise critical studies alongside country surveys. Fifty entries in this publication include the selection of video and installations featured in this exhibition, of which 38 works are from the Centre Pompidou and another 12 from the Museum. Extensively illustrated, this rare gathering of some of the most definitive works in video art is designed to address a wide audience ranging from specialists to the general public.

Negotiating Home, History and Nation
Two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia 1991 – 2011
(Soft cover, 275 pages)
Retail price: $80
ISBN 978-981-08-8104-7
Available at Singapore Art Museum Merchandise Counter

An extensive research catalogue that forms a variety of viewpoints and investigates key themes in Southeast Asian art history today, the contributors are predominantly Asian-based, offering new ideas about visual art from a part of Asia that is not well known beyond its own borders.

This is a valuable resource for anyone who wish to bring home the visual brilliance and conceptual purpose of recent Southeast Asian practice showcased in the exhibition.

Essays by Tash Aw, Khairuddin Hori, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Iola Lenzi, Susie Lingham, Apinan Poshyananda, Eileen-Legaspi-Ramirez, Nora Taylor and Tan Boon Hui.

Camino A La Modernidad. The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Art
(Soft cover, 215pages)
Retail Price: $$49.90 (Inclusive of 7% GST) SOLD OUT
ISBN: 978-981-08-4221-5

This book traces the major artistic developments in Mexican modern painting from the 1900s to the 1950s, through some of the most compelling artworks that were created during this significant era of Mexican history. The Mexican Revolution (1910) transformed the country and much of its artistic expression, and Camino a la Modernidad. The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Art features more than 70 artworks from important private collections and state institutions, including works by artists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Roberto Montenegro, Rufino Tamayo and Friday Kahlo. This bilingual book in English and Spanish includes concise artwork commentaries and more than 30 artist biographies, and is a suitable introduction to the paintings of modern Mexico.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of Natee Utarit’s practice from 1992 to 2009, and is the first to trace the significant developments and changes in the artist’s career. With more than 70 beautiful full-colour plates accompanied by detailed commentaries, essays and an artist interview, readers can gain an intimate insight into the artist’s practice as well as new perspectives on the tradition of painting in Southeast Asia today. A suitable publication for both researchers and art lovers, Natee Utarit: After Painting is also an ideal reference tool for exploring the art of the region.

This book features essays from prominent contemporary Thai thinkers and commentators such as curator Ark Fongsmut and filmmaker Ing K, and a critical selection of more than 100 photographs from his vast oeuvre from 1997 to 2007. Comprising both black-and-white documentary photographs of social realities and vibrant full-coloured images from his iconic ongoing Pink Man series of work, Phenomena and Prophecies traces Manit’s unique practice of artistic strategies that are both photojournalistic and highly conceptual, and signature to his practice of the past decade.

Singapore Contemporary Artists: Vincent Leow
(Soft cover, 139 pages)
Retail Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-981-08-6693-8

The Singapore Contemporary Artists Series documents and provides critical commentary on the practice of significant contemporary artists from Singapore. Enlarging discourse and scholarship on contemporary art, it introduces the vibrant contemporary art scene in Singapore. Vincent Leow is the first book in this series, documenting and charting the artist’s career through essays and personal responses from artists, curators and art historians on his key works.