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{{Culture of Singapore sidebar}}{{History of art sidebar}}The '''visual art of Singapore''', or '''Singaporean art''', refers to all forms of [[Visual arts|visual art]] in or associated with [[Singapore]] throughout its history and towards the present-day. The history of Singaporean art includes the indigenous artistic traditions of the [[Malay Archipelago]] and the diverse visual practices of itinerant artists and migrants from [[China]], the [[Indian subcontinent]], and [[Europe]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Susanto |first=Melinda |title=Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century |publisher=National Gallery Singapore |year=2015 |isbn=9789811405570 |location=Singapore |pages=30–41 |chapter=Tropical Tapestry}}</ref>

 

Singaporean art includes the sculptural, [[Textile arts|textile]], and [[Decorative arts|decorative art]] traditions of the [[Malay world]]; [[Portrait|portraiture]], [[Landscape painting|landscapes]], [[sculpture]], [[printmaking]], and [[natural history]] drawings from the country's British colonial period; along with Chinese-influenced [[Nanyang Style|Nanyang style]] paintings, [[Social realism|social realist art]], [[abstract art]], and [[photography]] practices emerging in the post-war period.<ref name=":6" /> Today, it includes the [[contemporary art]] practices of post-independence Singapore, such as [[performance art]], [[conceptual art]], [[installation art]], [[video art]], [[sound art]], and [[new media art]].<ref name=":45">{{Cite book |last=Toh |first=Charmaine |title=Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century |date=2015 |publisher=National Gallery Singapore |isbn=9789810973841 |editor-last=Low |editor-first=Sze Wee |page=92 |chapter=Shifting Grounds}}</ref> The emergence of [[Modern art|modern]] Singaporean art, or more specifically, "the emergence of self-aware artistic expression"<ref name=":6" /> is often tied to the rise of art associations, art schools, and exhibitions in the 20th century, though this has since been expanded to include earlier forms of visual representation, such as from Singapore's historical periods.<ref name=":42">{{Cite book |title=Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore since the 19th Century |publisher=National Gallery Singapore |year=2015 |isbn=9789810973520 |editor-last=Low |editor-first=Sze Wee |location=Singapore |pages=8–29 |chapter=Some Introductory Remarks}}</ref><ref name=":022">{{Cite web |date=12 October 2016 |title=T.K. Sabapathy |url=https://www.esplanade.com/offstage/arts/t-k-sabapathy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227025531/https://www.esplanade.com/offstage/arts/t-k-sabapathy |archive-date=27 February 2021 |access-date=27 February 2021 |website=Esplanade Offstage}}</ref>