About the Artist

Minstrel Kuik (b. 1976, Pantai Remis, Perak) is a Chinese-Malaysian artist who works across a range of mediums, including photography, drawing, poetry, textile, mixed-media assemblage and installation. Kuik’s practice is interested in the role of experience, memory, women’s writing (Écriture féminine), and pattern-making. She obtained Bachelor of Fine Arts in Western Painting from National Taiwan Normal University, thereafter leaving for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles in France for a training in photography. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in photography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie of Arles, before moving back to Malaysia.

Kuik’s works have been exhibited at National Gallery Singapore, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, ILHAM Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Photoquai Paris, and Horsham Regional Art Gallery Australia, among others. Her works are in the collections of the Linda Neo and Albert Lim Collection, Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Hokkaido, Japan, and the United Overseas Bank, Singapore. In 2014, she was awarded the UOB Painting of the Year (Established Artist Category, Malaysia). Story Time is her tenth solo exhibition.