The Krishen Jit Fund

Past Recipients

Since its establishment in 2006, the Krishen Jit Fund has supported 95 projects by artists and cultural practitioners working across Malaysia.

The Fund has provided seed funding to diverse projects - from the production of theatre, dance, music, film, animation, contemporary art, interdisciplinary, and community-based works, to the development of archival, documentation, research, and publishing initiatives, as well as training programmes, and international exchanges.

View the Krishen Jit Fund recipients from previous years:

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

The Krishen Jit Fund 2020

Aw See Wee

Aw See Wee, for the production of a clay stop motion animated film.

Catriona Maddocks

Catriona Maddocks, for a contemporary indigenous woven art project with rural artisans, utilising QR codes and curated digital libraries.

Jowin Foo

Jowin Foo, for Standard Operation Procedure, an experimental performance that explores the relationship with newly adopted S.O.P.s as a common ritual to counter the Covid-19 pandemic and the cultural dichotomies around it.

Leong Yoke Mee

Leong Yoke Mee, for The Music of Inner Land, a series of graphic, non-fiction stories about the music of the Kerabit community in Malaysia.