SOH Kay Min

Profile

Born in Singapore in 1994. Lives and works in London. Graduated with an MA in Visual Culture from Goldsmiths College in 2017.
Soh is a writer and researcher whose curatorial interests revolve around the weather, elemental aesthetics, and political ecologies of postwar Southeast Asia. They are currently a doctoral researcher at Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster.

Recently activities
2025 "YANARI," Curatorial Symposium on Media, Spiritual and Geopolitical Worldmaking, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP), Tokyo
2024 "The 2050 Weather Almanac," Publication, Singapore
2024 "Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss," Exhibition, TBA21–Academy Ocean Space (Venice) and ADM Gallery (Singapore)
2022–23 "Islandwide Coverage," 7th Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Flyer, and other venues, Singapore, as part of AWKNDAFFR
2021 "Can, Cannot, and Other Options," publication, Singapore, as part of AWKNDAFFR

Awards
2025, Globally Engaged Research Scholarship Award, University of Westminster, London, UK
2024, Technē AHRC Doctoral Studentship Award, London, UK

About works / curation

The concept of my residency activity “Film, Fog, Snow: Elemental Media of Nakaya Fujiko and Nakaya Ukichiro,” is related to my ongoing long-term project that probes the potential of weather as a witness to explore the historiographies of different cross-regional political ecologies, through curatorial and artistic research. Tracing elemental aesthetics latent in research-driven artistic practices, as well as their intersections with weather-related artistic and scientific developments that took place during the turbulent, war-marked periods of the 20th century, my concept proposes that the lifeworks of postwar artists and scientists provide clues to the kinds of alternative testimony that weather might offer, and that their works and critical readings of them, are key flashpoints in weather’s narration of postcolonial historiography.