Noor Mahnun Anum

Holding (Space) assembles the work of six artists: Aki Hassan, Justin Loke (Vertical Submarine), Marcin Dudek, Maryanto, Noor Mahnun, and Xue Mu. Across drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation,...

Yeo Workshop Presents the First Singapore Solo Exhibition of Malaysian Painter Noor Mahnun — Marking 40 Years of Artistic Practice

Yeo Workshop is proud to announce the Singapore debut solo exhibition of acclaimed Malaysian artist Noor Mahnun, also known as Anum. This landmark presentation coincides with the 40th anniversary of her first exhibition at Video Diva, an artist-run space in Florence, Italy, in 1985. For both the artist and the gallery, this exhibition marks a pivotal chapter in the unfolding story of Southeast Asian contemporary art — one that foregrounds the nuanced contributions of women artists whose practices have long developed outside the spotlight, yet resonate with remarkable clarity and relevance today.

Anum’s work — deeply personal, technically rigorous, and quietly subversive — straddles still life and figurative painting. Her oil-on-canvas compositions are marked by a delicate visual precision that elevates the everyday. With a distinctive aesthetic language shaped by her architectural training and European art education, Anum draws viewers into slow contemplation. Each canvas fuses narrative nuance with psychological subtlety, offering a compelling meditation on memory, place, and material culture.

Known for her refined, disciplined approach to painting, Anum imbues the mundane with quiet vitality. Her palette and compositional logic reference not only the domestic and the familiar, but also the geographies that have shaped her life — from Kelantan and Kuala Lumpur to Florence and Braunschweig. Her most recent works reflect a return to the east coast of Malaysia, incorporating elements of local topography, shoreline, architecture, and regional symbolism into her visual lexicon. Anum’s works, while modest in scale, are conceptually rich — often characterized by a sense of psychological interiority and a dry wit.

This exhibition, a first solo outside Malaysia in four decades, offers global collectors and curators a rare opportunity to engage with an artist whose introspective oeuvre is only now gaining international recognition.

Yeo Workshop is pleased to present ‘Storytellers: Mythic Journeys and Modern Realities ’, featuring artists Citra Sasmita, Filippo Sciascia, Quynh Dong, Maryanto, Fyerool Darma, and Anum Mohamed. Through both traditional...

September is Noor Anum Mohamed's twelfth solo exhibition in her illustrious 40+ year career. The show features various watercolor works created in 2021.

MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST Noor Mahnun Mohamed not only has the ability to create compelling art but is equally adept at writing and curating exhibitions. Popularly known as Anum, the artist is...

Kuala Lumpur: NN Gallery in Ampang will be showing ‘XXV’ Part 2, an exhibition of paintings by Noor Mahnun Mohamed and open to the public from 7th until 31st December,...

XXV Part I , Works on Paper by Noor Mahnun Mohamed will run from 12 th to 31 st July, 2010 at NN Gallery , 53A & 56 Jalan Sulaiman...