ABOUT
Huang Suhuai
黄素怀
HUANG SUHUAI is a multidisciplinary artist-curator whose practice traverses visual art, theatre, and socially engaged art.
Her work explores themes of identity, memory, and the relationship between the human body and everyday objects. This investigation takes form through drawing, mixed-media installations, experimental theatre, and participatory practices.
She is the founder of Plain Studio and currently serves as Executive Director of Emergency Stairs, where she continues to expand her artistic research through curatorial projects and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Her recent initiatives include the cross- media theatre production Seahigh, the community arts programme River Initiatives, and the interdisciplinary lab InterFlux.
Suhuai graduated with First-Class Honours in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts and received the International Takifuji Art Award from the Japan Traffic Culture Association in 2020.
In addition to her visual arts practice, Suhuai is active in theatre and literature. She has written and translated numberous plays staged in Singapore, and her poetry, fiction, and critical writings have appeared across various platforms.
CV
Curatorial and Producing
策划与制作
Producer,Emergency Camp,
Emergency Stairs,2023-2025
Producer,Temporary Chinese Theatres
NAFA & Emergency Stairs,2025
Curator,InterFlux –
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Artists Lab
Plain Studio within Emergency Stairs,2025
Co-curator,The Peripheral Experiment
Emergency Stairs,2024-2025
Curator,Plain Glimmer:Artists Residency
Pien Chih-lin Art Museums,2024
Curator,River Initiatives
Community Art Initiative and Art Week,
Pien Chih-lin Art Museums,2024-2025
curator, Mirage of Words: Poetry, Medium and Synaesthesia
Pien Chih-lin Art Museum,2024
Visual Art
视觉艺术
Hengdu: Archives of the Future
Resident Artist,Hengdu Art Museum, 2025
Tirta
resident artist, ketemu project bali,2024
Stranger 陌生人
Artist, Solo Exhibition showcase, 2024
CaoMu Bookshop,China
The Disappeared Neighbourhood-A Map Project 松桂园地图计划
Artist,Community project / Exhibition Showcase, 2023
@hā Art Space, China
Winston Oh Travelogue Award
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2022
Online Exhibition LASALLE College of the Arts
𝘝𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴,𝘑𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2022
Exhibition under dis/posit}ions organized by Starch
Singapore Art Week 2022
The Lasalle Show
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2021
Lasalle College of the Arts
Singapore
Let’s Meet Tomorrow Before the End of Our Time
Artist, Opening Performance in collaboration with Michał Doroszenko – “Let’s Meet Tomorrow Before the End of Our Time “international student symposium
@ TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland
Figment X Artist Booster
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2021
@ CANVAS HOUSE (Blair Road, Tanjong Pagar)
Singapore
The Ghost in Walls Exhibition
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2020
Organized by Shared Campus
@ ITALIC exhibition space for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
IN FLUX — A WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOW
Artist, Group Exhibition, 2020
@ Alliance Française, Singapore
Theatre
剧场
Notakinesis Project 谱写计划
Collactive Member at Multi D working Group, 2024-2026
Seahigh 四海
Playwright, Shekou Theatre Festival 2023
Absurd Little Things
Curator/Artist, A digital collection of casual puppetry performances, 2022
Gretel and Hansel 糖果屋历险记,
Script-Translator, The Little Company – Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2022
Writing with AI
Playwright, Emergency Stairs, 2022
Karius and Baktus 卡卡和巴克
Script-Translator, Norwegian Cultural Center, 2022
Keep In View-A Shadow Play
Artist, The Substation, 2020
Oedipus 王命
Script-Translator, Nine Year Theatre, 2020
Love is the Last Thing on my Mind
Assistant Set/Puppet Builder, The Finger Players, 2020
The Flying Post – A Puppet Performance
Artist, Grassroots Book Room, 2019
The wee Question Mark and the Mountain Movers 小问号和移山人
Playwright, M1 Patch! A Theatre Festival of Artful Play, The Theatre Practice, 2019
Fantastic Mr Fox 了不起的狐狸爸爸
Script-Translator, The Little Company – Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2019
The Wee Question Mark and the Nameless 小问号和没名字
Playwright, The Theatre Practice, M1 Chinese Theatre Festival, 2017
In Search of winter (collective work)
Playwright, The Theatre Practice School Show, 2016
The Wee Question Mark and the Adventurer, A Children’s Musical, 小问号和探险家
(Won M1-The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards 2016 – Best Production for the Young),
Playwright, The Theatre Practice, M1 Chinese Theatre Festival, 2015
Nini in Changi Village 樟宜村姑妮妮
Playwright, The Theatre Practice, M1 Chinese Theatre Festival, 2014
Graphic Design
平面设计
(Asian) Dramaturgs’ Network: Sensing, Complexity, Tracing and Doing
Book, Cover & Layout design
Asian Dramaturgs Network, 2023
Read Write Island Project 读写岛计划
Logo, Website, Event Posters, Marketing materials on social media
Digital form
Read Write Island, 2022
ADN Event Series 2021-22
Logo, Event Posters, Marketing materials on social media
Digital form
Centre 42/Asian Dramaturgs Network,2022
Writing with AI
Key art, Event posters, Layout of the report
Digital form
Emergency Stairs, 2021
The Spirits Play Online
Key art, Event posters, and marketing materials on social media
Digital form
2021 Emergency Stairs
ADN Re/View (Total Three Volumes)
E-magazine, Social Media materials
Digital form
Centre 42/Asian Dramaturgs Network, 2021
THIS IS ME! #01:WHAT IF (Co-Design)
Print Publication
3Pumpkins, 2021
COMMA SPACD: COMMON PLACES
Print Brochure
Comma Space, 2020
Southernmost: One Table Two Chairs Project 2017-2019
Print Brouchre, Booklet, Street Banner, Social Media,
Emergency Stairs
Einstein in the Carpark
Key Visual
Huayi Festival, Esplanade,2018
Huang Suhuai 黄素怀 