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Nurul Atiqah Binte Zaidi

Best Graduate Award

Nurul Atiqah Binte Zaidi | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art

Profile

Awards & Achievements

  • 2026, Best Studentship Award (Degree), Faculty of Art & Design, NAFA
  • 2026, Lim Ai Fang Art Prize (Top Prize, Degree), Woon Brothers Foundation
  • 2025 – 2026, Top Prize (Degree Level), GIGIT: Material Residue of Willful Biting installation, and is a part of the Woon Brothers collection for the Best Final Year Projects, NAFA
  • 2025, NAFA Talent Development Programme enrollee
  • 2024, Winner (University Category), Singapore Government Study Staff Credit Co-operative Bursary Educational Award

Events & Activities

Performances

  • 2026, GIGIT: Willful Biting, Performative Practices Lab, NAFA
  • 2026, Nak Dara, EndFGC Singapore and Dance Nucleus
  • 2025, Wanita: Mandi Minyak, Performative Practices Lab, Singapore Art Week
  • 2025, Wanita: Daging Haram, Mayat Mandi (Third Rendition), Chelsea College of Arts, London
  • 2025, Kulit: Siapa Bilang Gadis Melayu Tak Melawan?, Studio Plesungan Artist Residency, Indonesia
  • 2025, Wanita: Mandi Darah, 'About Bloody Times' Opening Night, Art Outreach, Singapore
  • 2024, Wanita Ditata, PERMISI Protest Party 2, Rumah P7:1SMA, Stamford Arts Centre, Singapore

Exhibitions

  • 2026, DOWNSIZING: Interbeing, NAFA
  • 2026, NAFA Open House Showcase
  • 2025, 'About Bloody Times', Off Limits Collective, (HEARTH), Art Outreach Singapore
  • 2025, Young Photographers Mentorship Programme, Open Studio Showcase, Objectifs Centre for Photography & Film, Singapore
  • 2025, Somewhere, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
  • 2025, From Nowhere, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
  • 2025, NAFA x UAL Exhibition, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
  • 2025, NAFA Open House Showcase
  • 2024, 19th Ngee Ann Photographic Exhibition, Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
  • 2024, Stories of Care (Cycle #4): Everything in Between, ASSISI Hospice x NAFA
  • 2024, Echoes Echoes Echoes, Women of: ___ Collective, NAFA
  • 2024, Flagship Genius featuring Văn Miếu – Quốc Tử Giám, NAFA
  • 2024, '姓 / Woman-Life, NAFA
  • 2024, In:Construction Art Show, NAFA

Residencies/Mentorship Programmes

  • 2025, Artist Residency, Studio Plesungan, Indonesia
  • 2025, Young Photographers Mentorship Programme, Objectifs Centre for Photography & Film

Talks, Panels & Public Programmes

  • 2026, Invited Panelist, Dreaming Her: Exploring Womanhood in Creative Practice, Post-show Dialogue, Weekend Culture, FilmHouse SG
  • 2026, Panelist, Forms of Refusal: Art as Counterforce, Downsizing
  • 2026, Panel Moderator, Embodied Rights: Gesture, memory, Becoming, Downsizing
  • 2025, Director & Facilitator, Wanita: Cuci Darah, Film screening and Performance Lecture, 'Post Script: 'Jemput Tengok', NUS Museum
  • 2025, Facilitator, Annotating with Her: Grandmothers' Stories Against Colonial Archives, Dance Nucleus, with Dr Nurul Huda Rashid

Curatorial Work

  • 2026, Curatorial Team, The Grad Expectation 2026 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art Graduation Show
  • 2026, Lead Curator, DOWNSIZING: Interbeing, NAFA Open House Showcase
  • 2025, Lead Curator, Stories of Care (Cycle #4): Everything in Between, ASSISI Hospice x NAFA
  • 2025, Lead Curator, Echoes Echoes Echoes, NAFA
  • 2024, Curatorial Team, In:Construction Art Show, NAFA

Press, Catalogue Essays & Media

  • 2026, Feature Article 'Turning Life into Art: How Nurul Atiqah Zaidi Uses Oil and Courage to Break Boundaries'
  • 2025, Print Feature 'Life Imitates Art' Fearless Issue, Her World Singapore
  • 2025, Institutional Essay Feature, 'Post Script: Jemput…Tengok', NUS Museum

Academic & Institutional Roles

  • 2026, Student Representative, 'Speculative Movement: Imagining Singapore's Future Through Dance, Design, and AI', NAFA x Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • 2026, Student Ambassador, NAFA Open House
  • 2025, Student Representative, School of Fine Art, NAFA x UAL Camberwell, Chelsea, and Wimbledon Student Social, Chelsea College of Arts, London
  • 2025, Cohort Representative, Ministerial Dialogue, Singapore Institute of Technology
  • 2024, Presenter, Arts Clinic XI 2024, NAFA
  • 2024, Emcee, NAFA Grad Expectations Fine Art Degree Show

Teaching & Education Engagement

  • 2024, Art Teaching Placement, Casuarina Primary School
About the Award

The Best Graduate Award is a prestigious honour presented to students with strong academic performance throughout their studies at NAFA. In addition, recipients should be responsible students who display good attributes such as discipline, resourcefulness and leadership qualities. They should also possess a record of contribution towards the respective department and the Academy.