| New York 2020 ISPA Congress - Keng Sen Ong |
![]() Keng Sen OngArtistic Director
Dr. Keng Sen ONG was honored with the ISPA Distinguished Artist Award in 2003. He is the Artistic Director of TheatreWorks and the artspace 72-13 in Singapore. Apart from creating renown productions, Ong founded the Arts Network Asia, a micro-grant peer organization, and the international Curators Academy focused on the synergy between contexts and curation. His seminal work was the nomadic artist residency, The Flying Circus Project, traveling international artists through Asia, sharing their contexts amongst themselves and young people in the local sites. Ong was the Founding Festival Director of the all-new Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). He directed four editions of SIFA from 2014 to 2017. He was a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Arts and Culture Prize in 2010 for his creations in Asian contemporary performance. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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