Featuring rarely seen artworks brought together for the first time in over 50 years, Tchang Ju Chi’s first solo exhibition explores the life and work of one of Singapore’s early prominent artists.

When: 18 Jul- 21 Jun 2026
Suitable For: All

Tchang Ju Chi: Tireless Camel

“为此，骆驼出来了。虽则，脚步恁般迂缓，样子笨滞；但是它，纵使前途有沙、尘，有风地雷雨，与一切困苦，还是负着重大的使命，一步一步地前进，永远没有倦意。”

“For this, the camel emerges. Though its gait may be slow and its appearance clumsy, it presses on. Despite the sand, dust, winds, thunder, rain and all hardships that lie ahead, it bears a great mission, step by step moving forward, ever tireless.”

Tchang Ju Chi, in Yeh Hui, Lat Pau, 1930

Tchang Ju Chi (张汝器) (b. 1904, China; d. 1942, Singapore) was a prominent artist, playing a key role in shaping the city’s nascent arts scene. A man of many talents—painter, cartoonist, graphic designer and activist—Tchang once compared artists to camels: unyielding and trudging tirelessly with slow but sure steps, driven by a sense of mission.

For the first time in over 50 years, this exhibition brings together over 15 rarely seen artworks reproduced cartoons and archival materials, shedding light on Tchang’s life and practice.

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Writing in History’s Margins: A Speculative Fiction Workshop with Manish Melwani

In this workshop, led by Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, we’ll use speculative fiction as an aperture to examine Tchang’s life, legacy, and historical context. We’ll work with fragments and relics: archival materials, artworks, artistic statements—and even gaps and absences in the record. In doing so, we’ll find a way into our own speculative fiction projects that’ll reveal, recover and reimagine historical knowledge.

15 Mar 2026, 2–6pm

City Hall Wing, Level 5, Rooftop Studios 3 and 4

Cartoons & Woodcuts in Singapore | A Tour with CT Lim and Lim Shujuan

Educator, comic book author and editor CT Lim, together with Gallery curator Lim Shujuan, explore how political art became a powerful tool for resistance and expression across mediums such as cartoons and woodcuts in Singapore. Focusing on the life and career of artist and cartoonist Tchang Ju Chi, we will explore how artists translated complex ideas into a single, compelling image through the use of symbolism and visual metaphor.

A General Admission ticket is required for this programme.

14 Mar 2026, 11am – 12.30pm

City Hall Wing, Level 2, Dalam Singapore

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