Farizwan Fajari, professionally known as *Speak Cryptic, is an artist currently working and living in Singapore.

**“Endless manifestations of the self are a feature of Speak Cryptic’s work – identity rippling forth through texts and phrases extracted from punk lyrics, intricate patterns and figures. His drawings, paintings and installations stem from inquiries into ancestral migration, ethnic dislocation, gentrification and alternative subcultures.”

*the moniker “Speak Cryptic” originated from a public art campaign of the same name that started in 2005, exploring issues pertaining to self-censorship and the public space.

**written by Deborah Lim, curator and former junior partner of Chan + Hori Contemporary.

• 2023 FLIPSIDE, Aliwal Urban Art Festival, Aliwal Art Centre, Singapore
• 2023 Urban Screens, Singapore Art Week, Fortune Centre, Singapore
• 2022 An Ocean Without The Anchor, Singapore Night Festival, Singapore
• 2022 The Same Side Of The Moon Always Faces Earth, Singapore Art Week, Singapore
• 2021 BEHOME (with ADDADDADD), Children’s Biennale, National Gallery, Singapore
• 2020 Akai Nu Agata, Pin-Up Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
• 2020 Where The Sidewalk Ends, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
• 2020 Somewhere Out There, Lite-On
• 2020, Downtown East, Singapore
• 2020 Streets Of Hope, Singapore
• 2019 Sing Along If You Know The Words, The Substation, Singapore
• 2019 In All Directions, Esplanade, Singapore
• 2019 Crossing Shores, Singapore Bicentennial Public Art Commission, Singapore
• 2019 Light To Night Festival, National Gallery, Singapore
• 2019 In The Clouds, Artwalk Little India, as part of Singapore Art Week, Singapore
• 2018 Koganecho Art Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan2018 Atypical, Flacon, Moscow, Russia
• 2018 Art From The Streets, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
• 2018 Anatomy Of A Heartbreak (with Kaizen MD and APE Studio), ArtScience Museum, Singapore

2011-2017

• 2013 Our Museum @ Taman Jurong, Singapore
• 2013 Mentor for the Apprenticeship Programme for NOISE (2013 – 2016), Singapore
• 2012 Future Proof, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• 2012 We Set The Pace, The Substation Gallery, Singapore
• 2012 Instinctively, The Pigeonhole, Singapore
• 2012 CON[TEXT], NUS Museum, Singapore
• 2011 Slow & Steady, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• 2011 The Resistance Movement, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
• 2011 Synesthesia, The Post Museum, Singapore
• 2011 Superheroes, D-Structure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2011 This Is A Photo Opportunity, (in conjunction with Meeting at SEA), Singapore Art Museum

• 2017 1st Kuala Lumpur Biennale, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2017 80by80, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
• 2017 Artling Pop-Up
• 2017, Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore
• 2017 Cannot Be Bo(a)rdered, ESpace Commines, Paris, France
• 2017 Hemera’s Feast, Civic District Outdoor Festival, Singapore
• 2017 Move ____, As We Move (with Kaizen MD), Singapore
• 2016 All That Is Left Behind, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
• 2016 The Tribe, O.P.E.N Festival, Singapore
• 2015 Secret Archipelago, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
• 2015 These Sacred Things, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
• 2015 Singapore: Inside Out, 751 D.Park (Locomotive Square), Beijing, China
• 2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Brick Lane Yard, London, England
• 2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Madison Square Park, New York, USA
• 2015 Singapore: Inside Out, Tan Quee Lan, Singapore
• 2014 Budi Daya, Malay Heritage Centre, Singapore
• 2014 Modern Love, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
• 2014 Public Order, Kingswell, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2014 Minor Cities, The Esplanade, Singapore
• 2013 If The World Changed, 4th Singapore Biennale, Singapore
• 2013 One’s Needs, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore
• 2013 Read Carefully, Kult Gallery, Singapore

2000-2010

• 2006 The Very Hairy Belly Jelly Show, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
• 2005 VOICES, Ngee Ann Kongsi, Singapore
• 2010 REDRUM, The Gallery at Old School, Singapore
• 2009 Love Is A Dog From Hell, 15 Minutes, Singapore
• 2009 U-Turn For A Change, Yaddo Art Gallery, Singapore
• 2009 RE: PRESENT, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• 2008 Emerging Asia, Kepco Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
• 2008 Le Monde Est Nous 05, Night and Day Gallery, Singapore
• 2008 Singapore Contemporary Young Artists, Sculpture Square, Singapore
• 2006 Off The Wall, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore