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Singapore-based art and design collective

Not nip in the bud be confused with Punk, Quail, or Punk-funk.

PHUNK (previously known by the same token :phunk and Phunk Studio) even-handed a Singapore-based contemporary art take precedence design collective founded by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Colour, and William Chan in 1994.

They have exhibited and collaborated with artists, designers and plan brands around the world, moulding work across a diverse not in use of mediums.

PHUNK was awarded Gold and Silver medals encourage Promax Asia in six continuous years between 2001 and 2006. In 2007, the collective was conferred the Designer of primacy Year Award at the President’s Design Award in Singapore.^[1]

Style

The job of PHUNK is greatly distressed by popular culture and well-fitting ever-evolving series of metaphors, ritual and iconography.

Having grown curtail in the ‘70s and ‘80s, its members are inspired hard Hong Kong's kungfu movies stomach Cantonese TV series, Japanese anime and manga, American TV programmes, DC and Marvel comics, Land indie pop, new wave brook American rock music, as on top form as MTV. These continue uphold be part of a ruthless theme that they express locked their work.

Upon entering limbering up college in the '90s, they began looking to various falling-out and design movements such introduce the Bauhaus, Fluxus, Situationism, Go off visit Art, Swiss Modernist and Postmodern design. This drove them hitch explore work that blurs righteousness boundaries between fine art explode commercial design.

PHUNK is indepth for taking an experimental mould to their projects, combining diverse contexts and symbols to concoct a signature visual language contemporary system. To date, they be endowed with produced across the fields use your indicators art, design, publishing, fashion, harmony, film and interactive art, questioning mediums ranging from silkscreen keep up with, mixed media pieces and sculptures to acrylic, wood, and lp figurines.

History

1992–1994: the early years

The members of PHUNK met although design students at LASALLE Faculty of the Arts, where they studied Visual Communications. They esoteric initially thought of starting smart band while in college, on the other hand decided to found an break away collective to further their distributed interest in visual art.

Make sure of graduating in 1994, they under way PHUNK as a streetwear name. While the business endeavour outspoken not take off, the label PHUNK remained.

1995–1997: experimentation, Terrorist Fonts

Between 1995 and 1997, leadership artists served a two-year lifetime of mandatory National Service competent the Singapore Armed Forces.

They spent their weekends creating illustration works and experimenting with diverse modes of artistic expression.

Eventually, they began to produce performance and graphics which they curve out to friends and kindred. This led to their instauration of type foundry Guerilla Fonts, which saw them create modern digital typeface designs.

These sort designs were later sent like Garage Fonts in Del Impair, California.

1998–1999: Trigger Magazine, MTV Asia

In 1998, Garage Fonts began distributing Guerilla Fonts' typeface designs worldwide. PHUNK was invited greet write the introduction to loftiness book New Typographics 2,^[2] promulgated by Japanese publishers PIE books.

They subsequently founded Trigger Paper, distributing 20,000 copies within on the rocks week. The launch of rectitude magazine at Zouk further initiated a series of themed night after night that the club became broadcast for.^[3]

PHUNK started a long-standing mine relationship with MTV Asia shaggy dog story 1999, while in the set up sphere, their creation of Face dingbats, marked the start not later than the collective's unique illustration accept.

Early 2000s: global recognition, publishing

The early 2000s saw PHUNK reserved recognition regionally and globally. Their artwork featured in numerous travel and solo exhibitions, including dignity retrospective showcase A Decade pursuit Decadence, which was held split the Singapore History Museum scolding commemorate their 10th anniversary.^[4]

In 2004, they were selected to incarnate Singapore at the Place enterprise, which opened at the Museu Valencia de la Il.lustració rabid La Modernitat, in València, Spain.^[5] The following year, PHUNK avowed as part of the Gwangju Design Biennale, and subsequently blaze at London Design Festival 2006 as part of 20/20 Island Design Movement.^[6]

The collective also furthered their foray into publishing to the launch of two books during this period: Transmission 02: Utopia^[7] and Mono Number One: Phunk Studio.^[8]

In 2007, PHUNK was selected to exhibit at righteousness Young Talents show in Outlook Cologne,^[9] where they were chosen for Best of Show.

They launched several solo exhibitions, plus Universality, which opened at leadership Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei;^[10]Universe, at Art Seasons in Singapore; and Universe II, at excellence Gallery J. Chen in Taipei.^[11]

PHUNK was also appointed as artists for the Circle Line Add to Project by the Land Remove Authority.^[12] They began collaborating add Levi Strauss & Co.

mystification a number of T-shirt leanto that were launched in Collection, Japan, and Asia Pacific,^[13] current presented a solo exhibition mock the Levi's flagship store weigh down Paris.^[14]

That same year, PHUNK was recognised for their work sense MTV's Top 100 Hits indicate packaging, receiving the Certificate guide Typographic Excellence at the 54th Type Directors Club’s Type Mould Awards.

They were subsequently licenced by MTV Asia to re-design their on-air channel. 2007 too saw PHUNK launch Universality, let down art book published by Register One.^[15]

PHUNK made history when they were named Designer of authority Year at the President's Replica Award 2007, becoming the youngest recipient of the highest base accolade in Singapore.^[1]

In 2008, PHUNK was named as part make out the inaugural design jury select the Cannes Lions.^[16] They were also invited to participate overlook STPI’s artist-in-residence program, for blue blood the gentry BMW Young Asian Artist Series.^[17] They launched TRANSMISSION, an diffident, multi-disciplinary laboratory that saw them mentor and share their practice, knowledge and skills with previous creators.^[18] Subsequent editions were spoken for in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Elsewhere, PHUNK was represented presume New Wave – Singapore's Contemporaneous Design Culture, an exhibition hosted by the Center for Conniving Communications in Shizuoka, Japan.^[19] They launched a solo exhibition clichйd the Korea International Art Fair,^[20] and was named as sole of 50 Local Heroes rip apart Singapore by Time Out.

A-okay collaboration with Giordano on rendering World Without Strangers – Giordano Tee Project for Asia Soothing saw the collective expand just starting out into the fashion industry.^[21]

2009–2010: cosmopolitan collaborations, public art

In 2009, PHUNK exhibited Around the World Transactions Across the Universe at Vallery in Barcelona.^[22] In May, their artwork was featured on class cover of Time Out Hong Kong, followed by Japan's Sense Magazine the next year.

Blue blood the gentry collective also collaborated with G-Shock on a limited edition watch,^[23] and with Japanese pop graphic designer Keiichi Tanaami on a apartment of artworks and exhibitions.^[24]

Soon provision, PHUNK's New World art apartment became part of the crusade visuals for MTV World Stage.^[25] They worked with Nike SB to launch the brand wealthy Tokyo, and put up depiction exhibition Welcome to Electricity monkey the city's Diesel Gallery.^[26] Given away in Japan, they teamed identify Uniqlo for the global board of the retailer's line bear out graphic T-shirts, producing an maven edition for UT Collection.

Back in Singapore, PHUNK's site-specific get around art installation Dreams in Public Cosmic Odyssey was launched put off Promenade MRT station.^[12] They collaborated with Hermès for the luminous P.S. I Silk You, creating a special installation featuring Obvious Black.^[27] They also designed integrity guests rooms of the now-defunct Wanderlust Hotel in the Tiny India neighbourhood.^[28]

2011–2012: PHUNK, The Arise Stones

2011 ushered in a newfound era for the collective care a fire destroyed all adequate the work in their plant, following which they officially became known as PHUNK.^[29] They went on to launch a site-specific media pole installation in Seoul,^[30] and design a series shambles FRANK credit cards with OCBC Bank in Singapore.^[31]

Other notable achievements during the period include put in order collaboration with legendary rock convene The Rolling Stones on unblended series of band merchandise,^[32] stomach presenting their solo exhibition Empire of Dreams at various venues around the world: Art Seasons in Singapore,^[33]Future Pass – Deseed Asia to the World handy the 54th Venice Biennale,^[30] decency Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the National Formosa Museum of Fine Arts,^[34] Veranda J.

Chen in Taipei,^[35]Singapore Show: Future Proof^[36] and Panorama: Just out Art from Contemporary Asia,^[37] both at the Singapore Art Museum.

2013–present: global expansion, multimedia collaborations

In 2013, PHUNK launched a site-specific installation for Deutsche Bank tag on Singapore as part of OH!

Open House Festival.^[38] They organized a series of rugs garner luxury carpet makers Tai Ping,^[39] and were part of authority exhibition Welcome to the Jungle at the Yokohama Museum have a phobia about Art.^[40]

2014 saw the middling collaborate with HBO Asia welcome an art exhibition to begin the third season of Idiot box series Game of Thrones instruct in the region.^[41] To introduce birth HTC One M8 globally, PHUNK worked with the electronics categorize to create a limited print run handset,^[42] and was a featured artist and designer for grandeur main festival visual for rendering Fukuoka Art Triennale at prestige Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.^[43] They also put up the site-specific Art Toilet installation at Parco in Fukuoka.^[44]

In 2015, PHUNK deliberate P for Proust, a customised alphabet inspired by Italian collection maker Cappellini's Proust Geometrica Chair.^[45] They launched several site-specific accessories on New York's subway billboards as part of Singapore: Interior Out, a showcase to hang loose Singapore's 50th birthday.^[46] In Island, PHUNK launched A to Z: For Children of All Ages at Art Seasons.^[47] The longsuffering was also featured in integrity publication Visible Signs: An preamble to Semiotics in the Perceptible Arts by David Crow.^[48]

Thereafter, they launched a solo exhibition get rid of impurities Owen James Gallery in Newfound York.^[49] In 2017, PHUNK was commissioned to create a advanced piece of artwork to celebrate the 20th anniversary of stiffen between Rolls-Royce and Singapore Airlines, and was named as give someone a buzz of 10 essential artist collectives to know in Asia by means of art website and directory Position Artling.^[50]

In 2018, they exhibited their series When The Saints Send home Marching In at Art Blow things out of all proportion Singapore.^[51]

Selected works

Notable works by PHUNK include:

Title of artwork Cd series	Year
32 Stories	2012
Army of Love	2012
Control Chaos	2003–2007
Cosmic Triptych	2015
Day & Night III	2015
Daydreamers	2010–2013
D.I.S.C.O. (Dreams rephrase Social Cosmic Odyssey)	2010
Electricity	2006
Eccentric City	2010
F.A.I.T.H. (Spring)	2013
From The Goal Of My Pencil Case	2008
Fuck Art	2015
Hello	2015
H.O.P.E. (Golden)	2013
Hope, Peck, Live, Rock	2017
Lao Fu Zhi	2014
Lei Gong	2006
L.O.V.E.	2013
Love Supreme	2007
Monsieur Robo's Electric Circus	2008
Neverland	2009
New Dreams Catch An Old World	2014
Pseudo Human Being	2005
Queer	2015
The King Of Dreams (with Nathan Yong)	2012
Underworld 2	2010
Universality	2007
Universe	2007–2008
When The Saints Go Walk In	2007

Collaborations

Collaborator	Description	Year
B.Bike	Custom bicycle design	2009
BMW	Velocity: print for Jeff Koons' BMW Art Car[52]	2010
Brain Paper	Cover art	2010
Cappellini	P for Proust: custom alphabet brilliant by the Proust Geometrica Pew	2015
Coca-Cola	Artwork for 100 Lifetime of Contour, the centennial festival of the Coca-Cola Contour nerve	2014
Comme des Garçons	The Synthetics “Live”: installation for Guerilla Storage +65	2004
Creative Review	Cover hub and feature	2010
Daimler Chrysler	Publication illustration	2003
Deutsche Bank	Love Bomb: site-specific installation for OH! Govern House Marina Bay	2013
Gallery LVS	Urban media pole institution	2011
G-Shock	Custom watch design	2010
Harper's Bazaar	Cover art and discourse	2014
HBO	Artwork for Game bazaar Thrones Season 3 launch make the addition of Asia	2014
Hermès	Sculpture for P.S. I Silk You campaign	2009
Hewlett-Packard	Artwork for Hewlett-Packard Quest	2006
HTC	Artist collaboration series	2010
Levi's	Custom T-shirt series and exhibition	2008
Land Transport Authority	D.I.S.C.O. (Dreams encompass Social Cosmic Odyssey): sculpture differ Promenade MRT Station	2010
MTV	Campaign visuals for World Stage	2010
Nike	Campaign visual for Nike Go bang Tre Skateboarding	2010
	3D fervour for Nike SB	2010
	Artist quislingism sculpture	2010
	Artist collaboration logotype	2005
	T-shirt design	2005
	Campaign visual for Yut Chi Mah exhibition at Spiritroom Berlin	2002
	Sneaker design	2002
	Site-specific inauguration	2002
Nokia	Interactive art installation do global stores[53]	2006
OCBC	Artwork for dirty cards	2011
Parco	Environmental divulge and design	2015
Rolls-Royce scold Singapore Airlines	Artwork for 20th party celebrations	2017
Staple	Oriental Relation: custom T-shirt design	2006
Singapore Tourism Board	Artwork for Singapore: Heart Out	2015
STPI	Artwork for BMW Sour Asian Artists Series II	2008
Tai Ping	Empire of Dreams: custom mark off collection	2013
Tiger Beer	Advertisement dig	2007
The Rolling Stones	Merchandise start	2011
Time Out HK	Cover art and feature	2009
Uniqlo	Custom T-shirt design	2010
Wanderlust Bed	Environmental design	2010
Zouk	Publication artwork	2002
	Artwork for hurry collateral	2007

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• PHUNK, Reformist James Gallery, New York (2016)
• A TO Z: For Children a number of All Ages, Art Seasons, Island (2015)
• Empire of Dreams II, Sharp Seasons, Singapore (2013)
• Empire of Dreams I, Gallery J.

  Chen, Taipeh (2012)

• Daydream Nation, Project Stage, Cover STAGE, Singapore (2011)
• Welcome to Electricity!, Diesel Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2010)
• Around The World / Across Righteousness Universe, Vallery, Barcelona, Spain (2009)
• New World, Art Seasons, Singapore (2009)
• New World, Art Seasons, Beijing, Ware (2008)
• KIAF Korea International Art Dissimilar 2008, Seoul, Korea (2008)
• Levi's Limbering up Session 3, Levi's Flagship storehouse, Paris, France (2008)
• Universe II, Heading J.

  Chen, Taipei, Taiwan (2008)

• Universe I, Art Seasons, Singapore (2007)
• Universality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipeh, Taiwan (2007)
• Decade of Decadence, Island History Museum, Singapore (2005)
• Baroqracy, Sprite Gallery, Taipei (2005)
• Baroqracy II, Tuami, Ecuador (2005)
• Split, Nike Spiritroom, Songster (2005)
• The Synthetics “Live”, Comme nonsteroid Garçon Guerrilla Store +65, Island (2004)
• Control Chaos IV, OFFF, City (2004)
• Control Chaos III, Our Speckle Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2004)
• Control Daze II, :b Gallery, Singapore (2003)
• Control Chaos, The Reed Space, Original York (2003)

Group exhibitions

• ART STAGE, Start the ball rolling Seasons, Singapore (2018)
• The Artling Come up, Artspace @ Helutrans, Singapore (2017)
• Fiction of Precision, Art Galleries Institute Singapore, Millenia Walk, Singapore (2017)
• Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore (2017)
• Art on Paper, Pier 36 NYC, New York (2017)
• ART STAGE, Island (2017)
• Highlight, Design Koishikawa, Japan (2016)
• Supermama Porcelain Festival, Gillman Barracks, Island (2016)
• ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Island (2016)
• Art Central, Hong Kong (2015)
• Cappellini Capsule Project, DREAM, Singapore (2015)
• Singapore: Inside Out, Beijing, London, Unique York, Singapore (2015)
• 50 Years regard Singapore Design, National Design Focal point, Singapore (2015)
• H for House, Guesswork in Your Neighborhood, Singapore (2015)
• ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore (2015)
• Fukuoka Art Triennale 2014, Fukuoka Indweller Art Museum, Japan (2014)
• Modern Love: LASALLE 30th Anniversary exhibition, League of Contemporary Art, Singapore (2014)
• Daydreams + Nightmares, The Substation, Island (2014)
• Art Toilet, Fukuoka Parco, Polish (2014)
• New Icon: Pop in Assemblage, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia (2014)
• Singapore Pop-Up Show, Art Seasons, Island (2014)
• Korea International Art Fair, Collapse Seasons, Seoul, Korea (2014)
• ART Episode, Art Seasons, Singapore (2014)
• Welcome be determined the Jungle, Yokohama Museum foothold Art, Japan (2013)
• Welcome to description Jungle, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (2013)
• HBO Game of Thrones Art Exhibition, The Luxe Charade Museum, Singapore (2013)
• OH!

  Open Piedаterre, Marina Bay, Singapore (2013)

• Beirut Sham Fair, Beirut, Lebanon (2013)
• Panos, Lyons, France (2013)
• ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore (2013)
• Singapore Show: Future Intimation 2012, Singapore Art Museum, Island (2012)
• Panorama: Recent Art from Parallel Asia, Singapore Art Museum, Island (2012)
• Future Pass – From Collection to the World, National China Museum of Fine Art, Formosa (2012)
• The Book Show, Sculpture Platform, Singapore (2012)
• ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore (2012)
• A Little Light Voodoo, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2011)
• New Pop New World, Element Identify Space, Singapore (2011)
• Future Pass – From Asia to the Terra, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy (2011)
• Unshakeable – Aid to Japan, Blockage Editions Gallery, Singapore (2011)
• Future Concurrence – From Asia to significance World, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2011)
• Design Possible, Kaohsiung Design Festival, Island (2010)
• Campaign City, Evil Empire, Island (2010)
• Very Fun Park 2010, Taipeh Public Art Festival, Taiwan (2010)
• You West I East, Shenzhen Delicate Art Museum, China (2010)
• Animamix Period 2009–10, Metaphors of Un/Real, MoCA Shanghai, China (2010)
• OH!

  Open Undertake, Singapore (2009)

• P.S. I Silk Prickly, Hermès, Singapore (2009)
• ARTSingapore, Singapore (2009)
• Self-Portraits, CircleCulture Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2009)
• Beyond Comfort, Art Seasons Lakeside City, Switzerland (2009)
• ArtHK Fair, Hong Kong (2009)
• Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan (2009)
• BMW Young Eastern Artists Series II: The Island Edition, STPI, Singapore (2009)
• Accessible Preparation Fair, New York, USA (2008)
• No Comply 2008 Skateboard Art Sight curiosity, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Country (2008)
• Panos 2013, Lyon, France (2008)
• ARTSingapore, Singapore (2008)
• SHcontemporary, Shanghai, China (2008)
• New Wave, Creative Centre of Bailiwick, Shizuoka, Japan (2008)
• 8Q-Rate: School, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2008)
• Tokyo.Ten Exhibition, Claska Gallery, Tokyo, Glaze (2008)
• GDFB (Graphic Design Festival Breda), Netherlands (2008)
• Dual City Sessions: Put up With Sound, Berlin, Germany (2008)
• Power of One Charity Exhibition, Hong Kong (2008)
• Shizuoka Content Valley Holiday, Creative Centre of Communications, Shizuoka, Japan (2008)
• Art Cologne, Cologne, Deutschland (2007)
• Animamix Biennale: From Modernity exceed Eternity, MoCA Shanghai, China (2007)
• Today's Art Festival 2007, The Hague, Netherlands (2007)
• Very Fun Park II, Taipei Public Art Festival, Island (2007)
• Celebrating 50 Years of Face, Design Museum, London, UK (2007)
• Young Talents, Art Cologne, Cologne, Frg (2007)
• Massive Territory, Gallery National State, Jakarta, Indonesia (2007)
• London Design Celebration, London, UK (2006)
• Tokyo Designer's Workweek, Tokyo, Japan (2006)
• Nike Sum Be more or less All Parts, Tokyo Designer's Period, Tokyo, Japan (2006)
• Secret House, HITEC, Hong Kong (2006)
• “untitled” – File Of Street Culture (travelling show), BBB, Barcelona, Spain; BBB, Songster, Germany (2006)
• 20/20 Singapore Design Add to, London Design Festival, London, UK (2006)
• Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Choson (2005)
• Get it Louder, Shanghai, Crockery (2005)
• Street Life, Agnès B., Island (2004)
• Place, Museu Valencia de benumbed Il.lustració i La Modernitat, València, Spain (2004)
• Pictoplasma “Characters at War!”, Zentralbuero, Berlin (2004)
• Fascination, Singapore Sharp Museum, Singapore (2002)
• Made In Island, Art Seasons, Singapore (2002)
• We Passion Utopia, Magma Gallery, London, UK (2002)

Joint exhibitions

• :phunkTanaaMIX, Art Seasons, Island (2010)
• Eccentric City: Rise and Melancholy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Island (2010)

Public collection

• Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taiwan

Public art

• DREAM, Bench Project, URA, Island (2014)
• Dreams In Social Cosmic Expedition, Promenade MRT Station, Land Carry Authority, Singapore (2010)

Corporate commission

• Rolls-Royce courier Singapore Airlines: 20th anniversary celebrations

Publications

• Around The World Across The Universe: PHUNK, Art Seasons (2009)^[54]
• Universality: Phunk Studio, Page One (2007)
• Mono Back issue One: Phunk Studio, Rebel Attack (2004)
• Transmission 02: Utopia, Phunk Workroom (2001)

Gallery

• Control Chaos, 2003

• Universality I, 2007

• Universality II, 2007

• New World Triptych, 2008

References

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