Alvin Ong

Alvin Ong (b. 1988)  is an artist based between Singapore and London and mines Western and Eastern painting traditions, as well as narrative structures of painting within the art history canon to create fragmented yet intimate paintings, often containing hints of technology and signifiers of specific locations. Ong is a graduate of the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK (2016) and the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018). He was awarded a residency in 2017 with the Royal Drawing School, as well as the 2018 Chadwell Award.

 

Solo exhibitions include In My Head, presented by Yavuz Gallery at The Armory Show, New York City, USA (2021); Night Shift, Mine Project, Hong Kong (2020); Long Distance, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2020); Supper Club, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore (2019); We will meet, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2016); The hours, Jendela, Esplanade, Singapore (2006).

 

Group exhibitions include In Momentum, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); The Possibility of an Island, Arndt Art Agency, Cromwell Place, London (2020); Search and Discover: The Joy of Collecting, The Private Museum, Singapore (2020); Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore; Sydney, Australia (2020); The Foot Beneath the Flower, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art (2020); Design and Media Gallery, Singapore (2020); Summer Exhibition, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK (2019); Raw Forms, Coda Culture, Singapore (2019); RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018); BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2018); All you can see, Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo (2018); Thumbnails, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018); HIX Award, Coutts Bank, Mayfair, London, UK (2018); Fiction of Precision, AGAS, Milennia Walk, Singapore (2017); Bilateral Bonds, Taksu Gallery, Singapore (2017); Dimensions of Time, Crypt Gallery, London, UK (2017); WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2017); And then…, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK (2017); Ruskin.show, Ruskin Degree Show, Oxford, UK (2016); Passages, UOB Art Gallery, Singapore (2015); Common Ground, Shophouse 5, Singapore (2015); Great Peranakans, The Peranakan Museum, Singapore (2015); Fresh Takes, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2015); Ruskin firsts, Bullington Road Studios, Oxford, UK (2014); Restoration, The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK (2014); UOB POY Reimagined: A Digital Art Show, United Overseas Bank Plaza, Singapore (2013); Creation, SJI Art Alumni Show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2013); Altering Alvar Aalto, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2010); AEP Biennial Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (2007); The Best of UOB: 1982-2007, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2007); SYF Arts Festival, VivoCity, Singapore (2004).

 

 

His works have been exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum (2007, 2012, 2013), Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2010), Peranakan Museum, Singapore (2015), Northampton Contemporary, UK (2017), National Portrait Gallery, UK (2018), and Royal Academy of Arts, UK (2019).

 

Ong’s work can be found in international collections, including ILHAM Gallery (Malaysia), Ingram Collection (UK), Victoria and Albert Museum, Print Collection (UK), X Museum (China), and Fundación MedianocheO.