LASALLE College of the Arts is Southeast Asia’s top-ranked specialist arts institution for Performing Arts, and joint first for Art & Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025).

Institutional awards

Institutional awards
Business Excellence Certifications
The Business Excellence initiative by Enterprise Singapore provides organisations with a roadmap for excellence and growth and helps them understand...
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Institutional awards
Dun & Bradstreet Business Eminence Award
The Business Eminence Awards is an initiative by Dun & Bradstreet Singapore to celebrate the nation's vibrant tradition of entrepreneurship,...
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EduTrust Star
The EduTrust Certification Scheme is a voluntary scheme administered by the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency for Private Education Institutions (PEIs) in...
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Effie Awards
The Effie Awards are known by advertisers and agencies globally as the pre-eminent award in the industry, and recognise any...
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Green Mark Gold Award
The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Scheme is an initiative to shape a more environmentally friendly and sustainable...
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Silver Ribbon Mental Health Award
The Silver Ribbon Mental Health Award was inaugurated by Silver Ribbon (Singapore) in 2020. The award acknowledges the efforts of...

Student awards

    Student Awards
    12th Benesse Prize
    The Benesse Prize was established in 1995 when Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd. changed its corporate name to Benesse Corporation, and...
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    A Shaded View on Fashion Film
    Launched in 2008, A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) is a trailblazing event that has become the epicentre for...
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    Applied Arts Awards
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    Ars Nova Festival
    Ars Nova Festival is a performance festival in Singapore that is open for all musical instruments including voice (except drum)....
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    Asia Young Designer Award
    The Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) is organised annually by Nippon Paint. The award aims to help foster creativity and...
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    Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
    The Lions are the most established and coveted awards for the creative and marketing communications industry. Winning at the Festival...
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    Communication Arts
    Since 1959, Communication Arts has published the best in visual communications from around the world. Its annuals rank as one...
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    Cosentino Design Challenge
    The Cosentino Design Challenge is an international competition that aims to foster the talent of design, architecture and interior architecture...
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    Creative Conscience Global Awards
    The Creative Conscience Awards is open to students and graduates (of up to two years) from any creative discipline. The...
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    Crowbar Awards
    Regarded as one of the most prestigious competitions for young creatives across Asia‐Pacific, our students are recognised amongst the best...
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    Cultural Medallion & Young Artist Award
    The Cultural Medallion was instituted in 1979 to recognise individuals whose artistic excellence, as well as contribution and commitment to...
    Student Awards
    Cumulus Green awards
    The Cumulus Green awards are organised by Cumulus, the Global Association of Art and Design Education and Research. The awards...
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    Student Awards

    President’s Young Talents

    President’s Young Talents

    Inaugurated by the Singapore Art Museum in 2001, an independent committee comprising local art professionals and a SAM curator nominates a group of local artists, aged 35 and below, for the award, based on the depth of their practice, their potential for growth, and the contributions they would potentially make to the field of contemporary art. Each artist, working closely with mentors from the committee, will present newly commissioned work for the President’s Young Talents exhibition, which culminates in a Grand Prize winner and a People’s Choice awardee.

    2018

    President’s Young Talents

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    Weixin Quek Chong

    BA(Hons) Fine Arts, Class of 2010

    Installation with silk twill, latex, wood, sillicone, vinyl, faux fur, paper, screens, aluminium and stainless steel.

    President’s Young Talents

    Weixin Quek Chong

    BA(Hons) Fine Arts, Class of 2010

    Weixin Quek Chong is a visual artist whose practice explores the materiality of human experience and existence, and the relationships between the digital, organic and aesthetic. Core to her practice is the manipulation of images and materials. Her works have been exhibited in Carrara, Istanbul, London, Paris, Santiago, Seoul, Taipei, Vienna and Yogyakarta.

     

    2015

    President’s Young Talents

    Allow me to introduce myself

    Ezzam Rahman

    Diploma in Fine Arts, Class of 2003 MA Fine Arts, Class of 2017

    Performative installation with talcum powder, second-hand furniture and glass bell jars, dimensions variable

    President’s Young Talents

    Here’s who I am, I am what you see

    Ezzam Rahman

    Diploma in Fine Arts, Class of 2003 MA Fine Arts, Class of 2017

    Artist’s skin, nails and adhesive, second-hand furniture and glass bell jars
    Dimensions variable

    President’s Young Talents

    Ezzam Rahman

    Diploma in Fine Arts, Class of 2003 MA Fine Arts, Class of 2017

    Ezzam is a multi-disciplinary artist, but his mediums of choice are performance and installation art. His artworks for the President's Young Talents consist of fragile, miniature flowers shaped from flakes of dead skin, and ephemeral sculptures that consist of little but talcum powder. Animating these otherwise mute objects, however, is the artist’s living, breathing body. The skin is his own, culled over a period of time from the soles of his feet, and the powder sculptures are remnants of his performances, into which his perspiration is mixed.

    2013

    President’s Young Talents

    Mirror

    Boo Junfeng

    BA(Hons) Film, Class of 2009

    Junfeng is one of Singapore’s notable young filmmakers. His debut feature film Sandcastle premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week in 2010, and was subsequently invited to film festivals around the world. It won the Best Film, Best Director and the NETPAC Jury Award at the Vietnam International Film Festival, and was listed by The Wall Street Journal as one of Asia’s most notable films of 2010. Since 2005, his short films have won several awards at the Singapore International Film Festival, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Special Jury Prize, Special Achievement Award, and twice for Best Film. 2015 saw the release of his short film, Parting, as part of the omnibus titled 7 Letters to commemorate Singapore's 50th year of independence. In 2016, his second feature film, Apprentice was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

    Image: Mirror, a two-channel video projection commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum for the President’s Young Talents contemporary art exhibition

    President’s Young Talents

    Unveil the curtain to the window with no ledge

    Ryf Zaini

    BA(Hons) Film, Class of 2007

    Unveil the curtain to the window with no ledge, Ryf Zaini's mixed-media installation, shines a light on the process of discovery and uncertainty, and the reward of illumination on those who seek and enquire with persistence and curiosity. Ryf, who graduated with first class honours in Media Arts from LASALLE in 2007 has had his work displayed in several exhibitions in Singapore and Malaysia and had previously represented the Singapore Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2007.

    Image: Unveil the curtain to the window with no ledge

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