artist bio.

Ernest Wu (b. 1991) is a visual artist based in Singapore working in photography, moving image, and multi-channel installation. His practice is concerned with image-making as it moves between event and representation, material and data, memory and machine. His work asks
what remains of the world once an image has passed through cameras, networks, algorithms, screens, and feeds, and what new forms of seeing become possible along the way. Over the years he has explored how time settles in a single exposure, how lived experience reshapes perception, and how information is filtered and consumed. Through these inquiries he questions not only what can be captured, but how mediation itself shapes what can be known, seen, and felt in a world where images arrive already processed and transformed.

Ernest studied film at Ngee Ann Polytechnic from 2008 to 2011 and graduated in 2018 from Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media with a BFA (Hons) in Photography and Digital Imaging. His work has been exhibited in festivals and exhibitions internationally in Auckland, Dali, Paris, Japan, China, Istanbul and Singapore. For his work, he was awarded the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography 2018. He is also co-founder and creative director of art, design and creative technology studio SERIAL CO_.