Meet the Artist | Johann Fauzi

​Johann M. Fauzi (b. 1962) is a Singaporean artist and collector who draws on classical Western traditions to build immersive interior installations and artworks that reflect on European visual cultures and their colonial legacies in Southeast Asia. An aficionado of Baroque and Rococo aesthetics, he has transformed his HDB apartment, which doubles as his studio, into an immersive installation that mimics their lush opulence and intimate atmosphere, evoking a European Renaissance parlour. The space offers a rare glimpse into a working environment that is itself a continuation of his practice.

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​About the Artist:

​Johann Fauzi (b.1962) is a Singapore-based artist who works across the mediums of painting, print, sculpture, and space-making. Trained in classical Western oil painting, he often incorporates these various formats into large-scale, immersive interior installations in the tradition of gesamtkunstwerk, aesthetically integrated environments. One of the primary pivots of his practice is the appropriation and transformation of various Western art historical idioms, inflecting their ideological and iconographic predispositions to reflect the lifeworld of Malay-speaking Southeast Asia.

​Johann came to art later in life, having first built a corporate career. He is a graduate of the University of South Australia and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, and received his M.A. Fine Arts degree in 2019 from a joint program with LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and Goldsmiths, University of London.

​He has participated in various group exhibitions, including “2219: Futures Imagined” (2019) at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, and “The Foot Beneath the Flower: Camp. Kitsch. Art. Southeast Asia.” (2020) at the ADM Gallery, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has also staged several solo exhibitions; his most recent is “#09-1464” at Richard Koh Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.