Emma Chong Ai Chzer 张爱慈, known as Emma, is a Singaporean artist

whose interdisciplinary practice explores lived experience, womanhood, embodiment, and the relationship between the body and memory.

Working across tactile processes such as drawing, painting, printmaking, object-making, papermaking, installation, and new media, Emma approaches art-making as a slow, materially engaged process of inquiry. Her practice considers the body both as a physical form and as an instrument and repository for memories, emotions, stories, vulnerabilities, and traces of lived experience.

Recurring motifs of the female body, flora, folklore, and material transformation allow her to explore the complexities of womanhood and the ways embodied experiences can be carried and expressed beyond language. Her practice is informed by a feminist interest in materiality, bodily knowledge, and forms of making transmitted through gesture, repetition, labour, and lived experience.

Emma holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts, First Class Honours, from Goldsmiths, University of London, through LASALLE College of the Arts, where she received the Academic Excellence Award in 2026. In 2025, she represented Singapore at the ASEAN–India Artists’ Camp. Between 2023 and 2026, she participated in and curated exhibitions alongside developing her studio and academic research.

Emma currently works full-time as an art educator while continuing her fine-art practice and research. Her current practice develops alongside teaching, allowing observation, pedagogy, making, and research to inform one another at a considered pace.

Studio Luna

Founded by Emma in 2016, Studio Luna grew from her professional practice as an illustrator and creative practitioner. Over the years, she undertook commissions, collaborations, workshops, and experiential projects for international luxury brands, cultural institutions, and organisations including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Burberry, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo, Bulgari, The Estée Lauder Companies, Cartier, Prada, Christian Louboutin Beauty, Victoria’s Secret, the Sheraton Tower Singapore, the National Heritage Board, and the Singapore Art Museum.

Studio Luna has been an important part of Emma’s creative journey, providing a foundation across illustration, material experimentation, education, and collaborative practice. Today, it is being repositioned as a more intentional platform for art practice, research, teaching, and socially engaged projects, alongside Emma’s independent fine-art practice.