Juliana Yasin (1970–27 August 2014) was a Singaporean contemporary artist and curator whose practice spanned painting, installation, video, and performance art.
[1][5][6] She was an active member of significant contemporary art groups in Singapore such as The Artists Village (TAV) and Plastique Kinetic Worms (PKW).
[1] Juliana continued to practice art while receiving treatment, checking herself into hospital every day for chemotherapy while preparing for her solo show held at Plastique Kinetic Worms just two months later in December 2007.
[12] From the 1990s onwards, she was an active member of significant contemporary art groups in Singapore such as The Artists Village (TAV) and Plastique Kinetic Worms (PKW).
[13] In 1992, Juliana would once again work with Heng to perform Her Identity alongside Ho and Chen Kun Yi for The Space, a significant exhibition organised by The Artists Village at the now-demolished Hong Bee Warehouse.
[10] After graduating from Curtin University of Technology, Perth in 1996, Juliana would work as a fine arts lecturer at Kolej Bandar Utama in Kuala Lumpur, only returning to Singapore in November 1998.
[3] In 2001, for Kampung 2000, a four-day Malay theatre and arts festival at The Substation organised by Teater Ekamatra, Juliana would stage The Veil, a performance artwork that examined Muslim female identity by taking the hijab and tudong as its starting point.
[1] For the performance, she cloaked herself in black and hid her face behind masks traditionally worn in areas of Saudi Arabia to indicate a woman's chastity and status as her husband's property.
[3] Juliana participated in the 2005 group exhibition Situation: Collaborations, Collectives & Artist Networks from Sydney, Singapore & Berlin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, curated by Russell Storer.
[1][2][17] In December 2007, Kites, Veils and Boarding Passes would be held at Plastique Kinetic Worms, a solo exhibition that marked the developments in Juliana's artistic practice since 1991.
[11] Receiving her cervical cancer diagnosis just two months prior, Juliana staged the exhibition while undergoing daily chemotherapy sessions at the time.
[18]In 2019, a selection of music and lyrics from Juliana's projects at Jatiwangi from 2009 to 2010 would be posthumously exhibited at the 6th Singapore Biennale, curated by artistic director Patrick D.
Australian artists Karee Dahl and Colin G Reaney are noted frequent collaborators of Juliana, performing alongside her at previous projects such as Traffic Space at Para Site, Hong Kong in 2001, The houseWORK Project at the Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore in 2003, the CP Open Biennale, Jakarta in 2003, and TAV's Artists Investigating Monuments series in 2004/5.