ABOUT
Born and raised in Singapore, Maxine Chionh is an artist and a writer now based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Her work deals with core themes of loss, vulnerability and psychological excavation through storytelling and image-making. She explores identity and home as existentially undecidable yet viscerally potent concepts through drawing, translingual and multilingual writing.
Under the alias Maxine Victor, after her late father, her short stories have been published by Ord&Bild magazine as well as Göteborgs Konsthall. Her artwork has exhibited in Singapore, Jogjakarta, Venice and Sweden.
27 February 2025, Public talk at the City Library Stadsbiblioteket, Kerstin Bergendal artist, Marit Kapla writer, Maxine Chionh moderator, Gothenburg Sweden.
25 May 2022, Conference panel discussion on Nordic diversity and representation, Maxine Chionh for Qalam, Ann Ighe for Ord&Bild, moderated by Camara Lundestad Joof, Bergen Norway.
9 October 2021, Maxine Chionh, artist presentation and roundtable discussion, Remembrance Day commemoration, GIBCA Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, City Library Stadsbiblioteket, Gothenburg Sweden.
11 May 2024, Maxine Chionh, artist-mediated dialogue, HDK-Valand x Kulturhuset Bergsjön, Gothenburg Sweden.
29 October 2021, Maxine Chionh, literary reading, Pub Poesi Nio, Elis Corner, Gothenburg Sweden.
15 April 2023, Maxine Chionh, literary reading, Textival Fauna, Tomelilla, Malmö Sweden.
20 May 2022, Maxine Chionh, literary reading, in conjunction with Nina Bondeson's retrospective exhibition, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg Sweden.
26 September 2020, Roundtable discussion, Qalam, Masoud Vantankh, Maxine Chionh, Johannes Anyuru, Sanna Ghotbi, Sabrin Jaja, Bokmässan 2020, pandemic digital presentation, Gothenburg Sweden.