Balamohan Shingade is a writer and contemporary art curator employed as the Assistant Director of ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology. He is a Masters graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland, where he was employed as a Professional Teaching Fellow in the Critical Studies programme (2012–15). During the redevelopment of Uxbridge Arts and Culture, he was the inaugural Manager/Curator of Malcolm Smith Gallery, a new public gallery for the eastern suburbs Auckland (2015–16).
Shingade’s research and recently published essays focus on theories of community. As a writer, he has contributed to numerous art magazines and academic journals, including the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, Artlink, Art News New Zealand, Pantograph Punch, and Christchurch Art Gallery’s Bulletin. His recent curatorial projects include Field Recordings(2018) and Alex Monteith: Coastal Flows/Coastal Incursions (2017) at ST PAUL St Gallery, Isobel Thom: ILK (2016) and Soft Architecture (2016) at Malcolm Smith Gallery, Joyce Campbell: Te Taniwha and the Thread (2015) at Uxbridge Arts and Culture, and Thirty-six Views of Mount Taranaki (2013) for the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Open Window.
As part of the AAAH2018 Symposium @ Te Papa, Balamohan Shingade was part of the panel for Distant Relatives, in conversation with Professor Yiyan Wang, Grace Lai and Emma Ng.
Learn more about Balamohan Shingade's creative practice here
Photo by Victoria Cullington