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PHUNK is a contemporary art & design collective based in Singapore.
PHUNK is a contemporary art & design collective based in Singapore.
Founded in 1994 by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan when they were still students in Lasalle College of the Arts, they developed a novel approach to collective art-making based on the collaborative aesthetic of a rock-and-roll band, and informed by a shared interest in urban subcultures.
Described as “The Champion of Singapore’s Graphic Scene” (Creative Review, UK), “Asia’s hottest agency” (Computer Arts, UK), “one of the world’s foremost cutting-edge design collectives” (Asia Tatler, Hong Kong) and “iconic representatives of the new wave of young Asian creators” (Get it Louder, China).
PHUNK constantly challenges the conventional notion and definition of the ‘artist’ and ‘commercial design studio’ by constantly blurring the boundaries between both, mixing Neo Pop Art ideology with Post-Modernist design sensibilities. Their cross-disciplinary approach is best described as “an aesthetic collective consciousness” focused on experimenting with new approaches to visual expressions. Their expansive scope of projects spans across art, design, publishing, fashion, music, film, and interactive.
They have collaborated and worked with international brands and artists such as Converse, Daimler Chrysler, Diesel, Heineken, Herman Miller, Hermes, Levi’s, Netflix, Nike, Rolls Royce, Uniqlo, and The Rolling Stones etc. Their works are featured in many international publications and awarded in various design award shows. One of their artworks titled ‘Electricity’ was cited in the book, ‘Graphic Design, A New History’ as “Instances of truly global graphic design”. They were awarded ‘Designer of the Year’ by the President’s Design Award, the highest accolade for designers in Singapore.
PHUNK had exhibited and lectured extensively around the world. They launched their solo artist exhibition, ‘Universality’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and represented Singapore at the Gwangju Design Biennale and the London Design Festival. PHUNK hosted their 10-year retrospective exhibition ‘A Decade of Decadence’ at the Singapore History Museum.
In 2021, M+ Museum in Hong Kong commissioned a special animated version of ‘Control Chaos’ and acquired the silkscreen version of the artwork as part of their permanent collection. In 2025, PHUNK celebrated their 30-year anniversary with a retrospective exhibition ‘PHUNK@30’ at the Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore.
B.Bike X PHUNK
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Customized bicycle design
2009
BMW X PHUNK
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Artwork for BMW Jeff Koon's car
2010
Brain Magazine X PHUNK
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Cover art
2010
Cappellini X PHUNK
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Artwork for Proust Chair
2015
Coca-Cola X PHUNK
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Commission artwork for 100 years of contour
2014
Creative Review X PHUNK
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Cover art & feature
2010
Deutsche Bank X PHUNK
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Site-specific installation
2013
Gallery LVS X PHUNK
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Urban mediapole installation
2011
G-shock X PHUNK
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Customized watch design
2010
Harpers Bazaar X PHUNK
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Cover art & feature
2014
HBO X PHUNK
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Artwork for Game Of Thrones
2014
Hermes X PHUNK
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Sculpture with silk bowtie
2009
Hewlett Packard X PHUNK
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Artwork for Hewlett Packard Quest
2006
HTC X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2014
Keiichi Tanaami X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2010
Levis X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2008
LTA X PHUNK
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Sculpture at Promenade MRT station
2010
MTV X PHUNK
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Campaign visuals
2010
Nike X PHUNK
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Campaign visual
2010
3D animation
2010
Artist collaboration sculpture
2010
Artist collaboration logo
2005
Artist collaboration T-shirt
2005
Campaign visual
2002
Artist collaboration sneaker
2002
Site-specific installation
2002
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Credit cards
2011
Parco X PHUNK
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Environmental art and design
2015
Rolls Royce & SIA X PHUNK
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Commission artwork for 20th anniversary
2017
Staple X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2006
STB X PHUNK
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Artwork for Singapore Inside-Out
2015
STPI X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2008
Tai Ping X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2013
Tiger Beer X PHUNK
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Artwork for advertisement
2007
The Rolling Stones X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2011
Timeout HK X PHUNK
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Cover art & feature
2009
Uniqlo X PHUNK
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Artist collaboration series
2010
Wanderlust X PHUNK
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Environmental design
2010
Zouk X PHUNK
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Artwork for Publication
2002
Artist collaboration series
2007
Artist collaboration series
2007
Artist collaboration series
2007
Artist collaboration series
2007
Artist collaboration series
2007
Army of Love
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Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust
100 x 140 cm
2012
Control Chaos
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Silkscreen on currogated board
400 x 210 cm
2003
Control Chaos Giant
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Arcylic On Canvas
1200 x 630 cm
2009
Cosmic Triptych
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Pigment print on paper collage mounted on wood
84 x 356 cm
2015
DayDreamer Triptych II
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Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust
140 x 300 cm
2010
D.I.S.C.O.
(Dreams in Social Cosmic Odyssey)
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Site-specific public art installation
Promenade MRT Station, LTA, Singapore (image)
2010
Electricity Neon
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Carbon ink transfer on wood panels, animated projection mapping
830 x 300 cm
Diesel Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (image)
2010
Collection of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Eccentricity
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Pigment print on paper origami
500 x 500 x 180 cm
2010
Collection of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
From The Bottom Of My Pencil Case
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Mixed media installation
8Q-Rate : School, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (image)
2008
Fuck Art
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Giclee print on canvas
118 x 168 cm
2015
Heavenly Boy On Wheels
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Sculpture
119 x 110 x 153 cm
2008
Hello
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Flatbed printing on multi-ply
150 x 150 cm
2015
Hope, Kiss, Live, Rock
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Pigment print on paper, collage on wood
240 x 720 cm, 80 x 60 cm
2017
Lao Fu Zhi
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Digital vector
2014
Lei Gong
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6" Vinyl figure
2006
ART! (Slippery When Wet, Crush & Buru)
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Acrylic on canvas
150 cm diameter
2009
L.O.V.E (Summer)
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Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust
103 x 103 cm
2013
Love Bomb
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Sculpture
200 x 90 x 90 cm
2014
Love Supreme
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Mixed medium on archival paper
160 x 156 cm
2007
New Dreams Of An Old World
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Ink-jet print on paper, ink and acrylic on printed sheet
Fukuoka Art Triennale 2014
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (image)
2014
New World Triptych I
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Silkscreen on canvas
Set of 3 canvas
420 x 200 cm
2009
Pseudo Human Being
Sculpture
60cm x 60 cm X 200cm (4 pieces)
2005
Queer
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Giclee print on canvas
59 x 210 cm
Set of 5 canvas
2015
The King Of Dreams
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Solid american walnut, polished brass tube with laser etching
210 x 120 x 120 cm
2012
Universality I
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Silkscreen on canvas
Set of 10 canvas
457 x 122 cm
2007
Universality II
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Silkscreen on canvas
Set of 10 canvas
457 x 122 cm
2007
When The Saints Go Marching In
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Acrylic and pigment print on canvas
120 x 210 cm, 100 x 70 cm
2007
Solo Exhibitions
2025
PHUNK@30, Art Seasons, Singapore
25 years of PHUNK, Straits Clan, Art Seasons and The Artling, Singapore
Control Chaos: 25 years of PHUNK, National Design Centre, Singapore
Control Chaos: 25 years of Art Making, Art Seasons, Singapore
SEA Focus, Art Seasons, Singapore
H.O.P.E, ART STAGE, Singapore
PHUNK solo, Owen James Gallery, New York
A TO Z : For Children of All Ages, Art Seasons, Singapore
Empire of Dreams II, Art Seasons, Singapore
Empire of Dreams I, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei
Daydream Nation, Project Stage, ART STAGE, Singapore
Welcome to Electricity! Diesel Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Around The World / Across The Universe, Vallery, Barcelona, Spain
New World, Art Seasons, Singapore
Universe I, Art Seasons, Singapore
Universality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Decade of Decadence, Singapore History Museum, Singapore
Baroqracy, Pixie Gallery, Taipei
Baroqracy II, Tuami, Ecuador
Split, Nike Spiritroom, Berlin
The Synthetics “Live”, Comme des Garçon Guerrilla Store +65, Singapore
Control Chaos IV, OFFF, Valencia
Control Chaos III, Our Spot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Control Chaos II, :b Gallery, Singapore
Control Chaos, The Reed Space, New York
Group Exhibitions
2024
Old Master Q 60th Anniversary ‘Our Hearts As One’, Singapore
Museum Wave, Seoul, Korea
Sneakertopia, Art Science Museum, Singapore
Art & Industry, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
Superfluous Things, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
M+ museum, Hong Kong
SEA Focus, Art Seasons, Singapore
Expressing Heritage: Art & Originality Unfold, Temenggong, Singapore
Art Central, Hong Kong
ART STAGE 'When The Saints Go Marching In' Art Seasons, Singapore
The Artling Pop-Up, Art Space at Helutrans, Singapore
AGAS 'Fiction of Precision' Exhibition, Millenia Walk, Singapore
Supermama Porcelain Festival, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore
Art Central, Hong Kong
P for Proust by PHUNK, Space Furniture, Singapore
Singapore: Inside Out, Beijing, London, New York, Singapore
ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore
Fukuoka Art Triennale 2014, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Modern Love: LASALLE 13th anniversary exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
Daydreams + Nightmares,The Substation, Singapore
Art Toliet, Fukuoka Parco, Japan
New Icon: Pop in Asia, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singapore Pop-Up Show, Art Seasons, Singapore
Korea International Art Fair, Art Seasons, Seoul, Korea
ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore
Welcome to the Jungle, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Welcome to the Jungle, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
HBO Game of Thrones Art Exhibition, The Luxe Art Museum, Singapore
OH! Open House, Marina Bay, Singapore
Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
Panos, Lyon, France
ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore
Singapore Show: Future Proof 2012, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, SAM, Singapore
Future Pass – From Asia to the World, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
The Book Show, Sculpture Square, Singapore
ART STAGE, Art Seasons, Singapore
A Little Light Magic, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
New Pop New World, Element Art Space, Singapore
Future Pass – From Asia to the World, 54th Venice Biennale 2011, Italy
Unshakeable – Aid to Japan, Light Editions Gallery, Singapore
Future Pass – From Asia to the World, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Design Possible, Kaohsiung Design Festival, Taiwan
Campaign City, Evil Empire, Singapore
Very Fun Park 2010, Taipei Public Art Festival, Taiwan
You West I East, Shenzhen Fine Art Museum, China
Animamix Biennial 2009-10, Metaphors of Un/Real, MoCA Shanghai, China
OH! Open House, Singapore
P.S. I Silk You, Hermes, Singapore
ARTSingapore, Singapore
Self-Portraits, CircleCulture Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Beyond Comfort, Art Seasons, Lakeside Zurich, Switzerland
ArtHK Fair, Hong Kong
Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan
BMW Young Asian Artists Series II: The Singapore Edition, STPI, Singapore
ACAF, New York, USA
No Comply Skateboard Art Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
ARTSingapore, Singapore
SHcontemporary, Shanghai, China
New Wave, CCC (Creative Centre of Communications), Shizuoka, Japan
8Q-Rate : School, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Tokyo.Ten Exhibition. Claska Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
GDFB (Graphic Design Festival Breda), Netherlands
GDFB (Graphic Design Festival Breda), Netherlands
Power of One Charity exhibition, Hong Kong
Shizuoka Content Valley Festival, CCC, Shizuoka, Japan
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Animamix Biennale: From Modernity to Eternity, MoCA Shanghai, China
Todays Art Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Very Fun Park II, Taipei Public Art Festival, Taiwan
Celebrating 50 years of Helvetica, Design Museum, London, U.K
Young Talents, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Massive Territory, Gallery National Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
London Design Festival, London, U.K
Tokyo Designer’s Week,Tokyo, Japan
Nike Sum Of All Parts, Tokyo Designer’s Week, Tokyo
Secret House, HITEC, Hong Kong
“untitled” – Documents Of Street Culture, BBB, Barcelona, Spain, Berlin, Germany
20/20 Singapore Design Movement, London Design Festival, London
Gwangju Design Biennale,Gwangju, Korea
Get it Louder, Shanghai, China
Street Life, Agnes b, Singapore
Place, Museu Valencia de la Il.Ilustracio i La Modernitat, Valencia
Pictoplasma “Characters at War!”, Zentralbuero, Berlin
Fascination, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Made In Singapore, Art Seasons, Singapore
We Love Utopia, Magma Gallery, London, U.K
Joint Exhibitions
2010
:phunkTanaaMIX, Art Seasons, Singapore
Eccentric City: Rise and Fall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
Public Collection
Singapore Art Museum, SingaporeUNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taiwan
Public Art
Dreams In Social Cosmic Odyssey, Promenade MRT Station, LTA, Singapore
Corporate Commission
Rolls Royce for 20th Anniversary with Singapore Airlines
Studio:
21 Kallang Avenue
Unit 04-165
Singapore 339412
Email:
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PHUNK Art & Design Collective.
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