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Ezzam Rahman (b.1981, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common, easily accessible, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance, he creates works that are often autobiographical, time-based, and ephemeral, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics, identity, impermanence, traces, and abjection. Ezzam Rahman’s artistic practice exemplifies an embodied aesthetics that is deeply political, affective, and phenomenological. Using ephemeral and bodily materials, he reclaims the abject as a site of agency, while destabilizing the fixity of identity, materiality, and memory. By working at the intersection of personal loss, cultural belonging, and queer embodiment, his oeuvre became a vital archive of what it means to live and decay within the body.
Ezzam is an adjunct lecturer in LASALLE College of the arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. He was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President's Young Talents 2015 and the People’s Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. In 2016, Ezzam was awarded the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award by Yayasan Mendaki and the prestigious Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore. In 2021, Ezzam was awarded the Most Promising Award; photography category for PULSE Awards, Thailand and served The Substation, an independent arts company, Singapore as the artistic director. In 2023 Ezzam was invited by the National Institute of Education NIE, Singapore for their NIE Visiting Artist Programme.
  • Director (4 Credits)
    no matter what, i want to be next to you.2024
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    BLOWJOB - a tribute to Andy Warhol's 1964 film, X'ho's 2007 film, of the same title.2023
    Experimental
    the little differences you made for me2023
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Someday my Prince will come2011
    Experimental, Short
  • Producer (2 Credits)
    BLOWJOB - a tribute to Andy Warhol's 1964 film, X'ho's 2007 film, of the same title.2023
    Experimental
    Someday my Prince will come2011
    Experimental, Short
  • Writer (2 Credits)
    BLOWJOB - a tribute to Andy Warhol's 1964 film, X'ho's 2007 film, of the same title.2023
    Experimental
    Someday my Prince will come2011
    Experimental, Short
VMAC Depository
Someday my Prince will come
Videotage
Hong Kong
2026
Official Selection
no matter what, i want to be next to you.
Singapore Shorts 2025
Singapore
2025
Audience Award
no matter what, i want to be next to you.
Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art
Toronto
2025
Festival Commission
the little differences you made for me
Singapore Heritage Festival 2023
Singapore
2023
College
Goldsmith University of London - LASALLE College of The Arts
Masters of Arts, Fine Arts
20162017
Birth Date
January 9, 1981
Birth City
SINGAPORE
Current City
SINGAPORE
Hometown
SINGAPORE
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Malay
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
we all have stories to tell
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