Academic leadership and faculty

Master of Fine Arts (Painting) Institute of Fine Art, Bucharest, Romania

Born in 1951 in Yugoslavia, Professor Milenko Prvački graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania. He is one of Singapore’s foremost art educators, having commenced teaching at LASALLE College of the Arts since 1994. He was Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts for 17 years and currently holds the position of Senior Fellow.

Since 1971, Prof Prvački has exhibited extensively in Europe. He has also participated in numerous showcases in public spaces and galleries in Singapore since 1993. With solo shows held in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and Jakarta, he also took part in group shows held at the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, Belgium, the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, the National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore and the Sydney Biennale, Australia.

He has also participated in numerous symposiums and art workshops worldwide, including a panel discussion on Southeast Asian art held at the Singapore Art Museum in 2011, an artist talk at the Istanbul Biennale in 2007, a discussion on Southeast Asian art in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 2001, as well as acted as visiting professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and Sabanchi University in Istanbul. His works are in the permanent collection of the Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and Museum of Contemporary Drawing, Nurnberg, Germany, among others.

Prof Prvački became a Singapore citizen in 2002 and was conferred the prestigious Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 2012.

Sava Šumanović Award for Visual Arts), Novi sad, Serbia (2020)
Cultural Medallion, Singapore (2012)
Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2011)

Solo exhibitions (select)

Milenko Prvački Collection, Retrospective, SMU, Singapore (2025)
Abstraction for Beginners, iPreciation gallery, Singapore (2023)
Trophy Paintings, National Museum, Pancevo, Serbia (2023)
Art Calendar, Parkway Museum, Beijing, China (2020)
Abstraction for Beginners, BelArt Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia (2022)
Abstraction for Beginners, HAOS Gallery; Belgrade, Serbia (2019)
Construction Cite 2016, Installation (with Delia Prvacki), Esplanade; Singapore (2016)
“E La Nave Va”, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2015)
Johor Strait, Building Bridge Art Foundation, Baik Art, Bergamont (2014)
Station Art Centre; Santa Monica, US (2014)
Art Stage, Singapore, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore (2014)
Milenko Prvacki: A Survey, 1979–2012, curated by Dr. Charles Merewether, Institute of Contemporary Art, LASALLE College of the Arts; Singapore (2012)
Trajectory (with Delia Prvacki), Combinart Studio; Singapore (2009)
Now you see it, now you don’t (with Delia Prvacki), Combinart; Singapore (2008)
Remembrance of Things Past, iPreciation Gallery, Hong Kong Review (2007)
Construction site, Museum of Contemporary Art; Sydney, Australia (2006)
Recollection, TAKSU Gallery; Singapore (2006)

Group exhibitions (select)

“Artist’s Proof: Singapore at 60”, Artspace@Helutrans, The Culture Story; Singapore (2025)
“Sama-Sama”, Whitestone Gallery; Singapore (2025)
A peace to the Splendoure, Four Seasons Hotel; Singapore (2025)
ART SG 25, Marina Bay Convention Center; Singapore (2025)
MIRROR OF MIND, Opsfield Art; Singapore (2025)
Tomorrow, We’ll be…, (With Delia Prvacki), Children Biennale, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art; Seoul, South Korea (2025)
AART SG; Singapore (2024)
iPRECIATION @ ART SG (2023)
Rafinerijamanastir, Pancevo Biennale, curated by Maia Ciric; Serbia (2022)
May Exhibits – Milenko Prvački, Jin Jie and Huang Yuanqing, iPreciation gallery; Singapore (2022)
Visual thinking/Sens of knowing, curated by Dr. Wang Roubing (,) Space; Singapore (2022)
Celebration of Striving Creativity in Singapore, iPreciation gallery; Singapore (2022)
Artist as Collector, curated by Wang Ruobing, Gillman Barracks; Singapore (2021)
SALON, Contemporary Gallery, Pancevo; Serbia (2021)
LOVE IN THE TIME of COVID-19, Gallery of South Australia (2020)
DIARIO COMUNE, online exhibition; Italy (2020)
(ab)NORMAL, RMIT Gallery; Melbourne, Australia (2020)
Love in the Time of Covid-19, KORGO Project; Melbourne, Australia (2020)
100Artists Plural; Singapore (2020)
Sava Stepanov Collection, Gallery Matica Srpska; Novi Sad, Serbia (2019)
2nd Children Biennale (with Delia Prvacki), National Gallery Singapore; Singapore (2019)
Hyper realism and Postmodernism, Contemporary Art Gallery; Zrenjanin, Serbia (2019)
VIII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2018)
Departure 3, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2018)
Art New York, Pier 94, presented by Art Miami; US (2018)
Hangzhou Gallery; China (2018)
EC Gallery; Singapore (2018)
Tao Hua Tan 1st International Artists Residency Exhibition; Xuancheng, China (2017)
Hearing Images & Seeing Sound, DG Visual Art Centre, Singapore Asian Art Revisited, Art Forum Gallery; Singapore (2017)
A Home Anywhere, 18th Street Art Centre; Santa Monica, US (2017)
Art New York (Art Miami); New York, US (2016)
80by80 @Jendela Gallery, Esplanade; Singapore (2016)
Departure 2, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore Group exhibition, Baik Art Gallery; Los Angeles, US (2016)
Permanent collection, National Gallery Singapore; Singapore (2015)
Art Far Paris, Grand Palace, France (2015)
Portable Art Week, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2015)
Art Silicon Valley; San Francisco, US (2015)
A new Dialogue, Southeast Asian Abstraction, Sotheby’s; Singapore and Hong Kong (2015)
The Cultural Medallion and Visual Arts, Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries 1 & 2, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; Singapore (2015)
Market Forces, Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction, curated by Dr Charles Merewether, Osage Gallery and City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong (2014)
Passage (with Delia Prvacki), The Luxe Art Museum; Singapore (2014)
Departure 1, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2014)
Art Stage, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2014)
Do you believe in Angels?, curated by Tony Godfrey, M0_Space; Manila, Philippines and Singapore (2014)
We do, we do Art, One East Asia Gallery; Singapore (2014)
Paper, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2013)
Painting in Singapore, curated by Tony Godfrey, Equator Art Project, Singapore (2013)
Island Vernacular, Milenko Prvacki and Ian Woo, curated by Christopher Cook, Peninsula Arts with Plymouth University; UK (2013)
The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image, An Exhibition of Singapore Contemporary Art curated by Feng Boyi,  Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum; China (2013)
Postmodernism in Vojvodina (1976–1990), curated by Svetlana Mladenov, Museum of Contemporary Art Voivodina, Novi Sad and Gallery Kulturni Centre Belgrade; Serbia (2013)
Cascadence – SG redux, curated by Joanna Lee, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2013)
Panorama, Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, Singapore Art Museum; Singapore (2012)
The same rain, the same wind, Chiang Mai University Art Centre; Thailand (2012)
Decode/Recode, Media City, University of Salford; Manchester, UK (2012)
9+1, Sabanchi University Gallery; Istanbul, Turkey (2012)
Love Letter to Surrogate, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen; Belgium (2011)
LASALLE–NAFA Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; Singapore (2011)
9, Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Art, LASALLE College of the Arts; Singapore (2011).
Love Letter to Surrogate, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2010)
The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today, curated by Eugene Tan, Osage Gallery; Hong Kong and Shanghai (2010)

Symposiums and art workshops

“Dialogue”, International Dialogue for ISSUE art Jurnei (2020-2025)
Workshop, Children Biennale; Seoul, South Korea (2025)
Workshop project “Play”, Nagoya University (2025)
1st Tao Hua Tan, International Artist Retreat and Painting Residence; China (2017)
Keynote speaker, Art World Forum; Singapore (2017)
Art residency at 18th Street Art Centre; Santa Monica, US (2017)
Visiting Professor, RMIT University, School of Art; Melbourne, Australia (2016)
Art Residency at 18th Street Art Centre; Santa Monica, US (2016)
Keppel Centre for Education (50 works), National Gallery Singapore; Singapore (2015)
Visiting Professor, University of Washington, School of Art; Seattle, US (2014)
Art Residency at 18th Street Art Centre; Santa Monica, US (2013)
Panel discussion, Contemporary South East Asian Painting, Singapore Art Museum; Singapore (2011)
Visiting Professor at Sabanchi University; Istanbul, Turkey (2010)

Curated exhibitions

Brother Joseph McNally, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery; Singapore (2024)
Image and sound of Fragrance, UltraSuperNew Gallery; Singapore (2018)
Departure 3, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2018)
Departure 2, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2016)
Departure 1, iPreciation Gallery; Singapore (2014)
The same rain, The same wind, International Exhibition, University Art Centre, Chang Mai University; Thailand (2012)
That’s another story, Praxis Space, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts; Singapore (2010)

Others

Founder and organiser, Tropical Lab, international postgraduate art camp
Baby Tropical Lab, with Ministry of Education Singapore
Tropical Lab+ with School of the Arts and local polytechnics
Play, collaboration project with Nagoya University
Editor, Tropical Lab Press
Founder and editor, Praxis Press
Founder and editor, ISSUE
Editor, LASALLE’s first book on research.
Supervisor, MA Fine Arts
Group critique leader, Fine Arts

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Programme Leaders

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Alan P Rudge

Andreas Schlegel

Audrey Wong

Dayal Gian Singh

Dr Diego Celi

Erzan Adam

Dr Francis Maravillas

Ginette Chittick

Guo Ningru

Hazel Lim-Schlegel

Dr Ian Woo

Dr Indra Selvarajah

Jay Loo Dexian

Jaygo Bloom

Jeffrey Say

Joselyn Sim

Justin Hegburg

Kathryn Shannon Sim

Khalid Almkhlaafy

Matt Grey

Michael Budmani

Associate Professor Natalia Grincheva

Nathan Yong

Pavan J Singh

Professor Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThS-HF, AThR, ATR-BC

Associate Professor Rosslyn Prosser

Dr Subashini K Rajanthran

Victoria Elizabeth Ho

Wendy Chua

Associate Professor Woo Yen Yen

Senior Lecturers

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Adeline Kueh

Brian O’Reilly

Associate Professor Darren Moore

Dirk Johan Stromberg

Emylia Safian

Hideho Urata

Jeremy Sharma

Kelley Cheng

Dr S Chandrasekaran

Salleh Japar

Urich Lau Wai-Yuen

Lecturers

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Adrian Huang

Aloysius Foong

Alvin Chiam

Dr Amber Chunzhi Yin

Ang Qing Sheng

Dr Aprille Chua Jia Qi

Belinda Foo

Chen Chin Tyng

Chris Yee

Christina Low Yung Chyuan

Dr Damaris D E Carlisle

Daniela Monasterios Tan

David Lee Siew Bing

Edmund Chia

Eugene Lee

Fanny Bratahalim

Felix Sng

Frank DeMeglio

Dr Gan Sheuo Hui

Goh Hiro Toshi

Hera

Hillary Yeo

Isidro Ramirez

Dr James Félix

Janet Teoh

Jason Vitorillo

Jessica Olivia Chua

Joanne Ho Sau Leng

Dr Joel Gn

Dr Leela Alaniz

Lidya Chrisfens

Lim Shu Min

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