Sidd Perez is an Assistant Curator at the NUS Museum, focused on the museum’s South & Southeast Asian Collection. Previously based in Manila, she is the co-founder of Planting Rice, with Lian Ladia (founded in 2011), an independent curatorial and resource platform. Aside from curatorial projects featuring emerging artists and online and physical publications, Planting Rice aims to foster the rise of cross-pollination among artistic communities. Through their online platform, Plantingrice.com, the collaborative generates a resource of writings on current discussions and collaborations that are developing beyond available publications or mainstream spaces in the Philippines. Planting Rice’s previous exhibitions include: SPROUT, a project that investigated curatorial contributions in contested artistic communities; #studiovisit, which offered an intimate opportunity to engage with contemporary art practices within artists’ personal or self-regulated environments; and #offshoot, a program centered on guerrilla events and happenings, continuing Planting Rice’s interest in re-potentializing spaces and acknowledging that art production goes beyond the regular syntax of gallery programming.
Perez was the curatorial associate for The Drawing Room’s Manila and Singapore galleries (2012-2015). Her previous curatorial projects include LOSTprojects (2009-2012), an independent space for Australia and Philippine artistic exchange; the coordination of the Roberto Chabet retrospective (2011); and as an exhibition manager/curator for the Valentine Willie Fine Art galleries (2008-2011).
