Dawn Ng

Dawn Ng
Ng working in her studio

Dawn Ng (born 1982) is a visual artist from Singapore[1][2][3][4] who works across a diverse breadth of mediums, motives and scale ranging from text, illustration, collage, light, sculpture to large scale installations. Her work primarily deals with time, memory, and the ephemeral.

Dawn was part of the Jeju Biennale in 2017, participated in the inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong with her solo, SIXTEEN, followed by A Thing of Beauty, at the Art Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais in 2015. She has also shown in Sydney,[5] Shanghai,[6] and Jakarta.

Education

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Dawn Ng majored in Journalism and Studio Art at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Career

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Well known for her ubiquitous Walter series [7] that garnered attention for its controversial guerilla content and form, the work was acquired into the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum, included in Open Sea at the 2015 Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon[8] which explored the contemporary Art scene of Southeast Asia. In 2019, the artist was commissioned to fill a wing of the Art Science Museum for their Floating Utopias exhibition.[9]

In 2016 Ng was commissioned by the Fondation d'enterprise Hermes to inaugurate their Singapore flagship's art gallery with a solo installation, How to Disappear into a Rainbow as the store reopened in Liat Towers, Singapore.[10][11] Most recently the artist opened a commissioned solo at the Asian Civilisations Museum[12] in 2020.

She is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore.[13]

Solo exhibitions

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This series of photographs by Dawn Ng features a curious colossal bunny named Walter that pops up across Singapore's standard landscape of flats and heartland enclaves. By placing Walter at various spots in Singapore and photographing these interesting scenarios in which the giant rabbit contrasts with his environment, the artist encourages people to re-examine overlooked places, local sites, and sights.

Sixteen is an installation of 16 wooden chests built in a spectrum of colors. These chests are crafted to resemble treasure boxes, which fit one inside the other — the largest, the size of an oversized antique travel trunk, down to the smallest, the size of a musical box. Each chest is labeled both on the outside and on the inside with brass-engraved plaques, whose texts relate to the colour of it.[16][17][18]

  • 2015, A Thing of Beauty,[19] Art Paris Art Fair

The photographic series A Thing of Beauty captures installations of small, locally sourced objects, collected from a range of stores in residential Singapore – from bakeries to convenience stores.[20][21][22]

  • 2016, How to Disappear into a Rainbow, Hermes Aloft Gallery, Singapore
  • 2018, Perfect Stranger,[23] Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
  • 2018, Perfect Stranger, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
  • 2019, 11,[24] Telok Ayer Arts Club, Singapore
  • 2020, Monument Momento,[25] Sullivan+Strumpf, S.E.A Focus, Singapore
  • 2021, Into Air,[26] Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore

Group exhibitions

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  • 2017, Dorothy, Jeju Biennale, Korea
  • 2019, Waterfall I, Sullivan+Strumpf, Westbund Art & Design, Shanghai
  • 2020, Merry-Go-Round,[27][28] Twenty Twenty Art Show, Singapore

References

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  2. ^ "Who is futureproofing Singaporean art? 26 young artists in SAM survey". Art Radar. 2 May 2012. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  3. ^ Dickie, Anna (28 December 2013). "Dawn Ng". Ocula. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Singapore's Flourishing Art Scene". Silver Kris. 14 August 2014. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Dawn Ng - Perfect Stranger - Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney". RanDian. 2018. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Artists » Dawn Ng » Exhibitions » West Bund Art & Design". Sullivan+Strumpf. 2019. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  7. ^ Lim, Valerie (28 February 2014). "Coffee with... Dawn Ng". Poached Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Open Sea | Musée d'art contemporain". www.mac-lyon.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  9. ^ "ArtScience Museum - Floating Utopias". Marina Bay Sands. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  10. ^ Adibah, Isa (19 May 2016). "Interview with Dawn Ng for Aloft at Hermès: 'I believe there are worlds beyond worlds of colour'". Büro 24/7. Photos by Masao Nishikawa. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  11. ^ "Aloft at Hermès exhibitions, 2008–2016". Foundation d'entreprise Hermès. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  12. ^ "Faith Beauty Love Hope - Our Stories, Your ACM". National Heritage Board - Government of Singapore. 2020. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Artists » Dawn Ng". Sullivan+Strumpf. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Everything You Ever Wanted Is Right Here - Solo Exhibition By Dawn Ng". Chan Hampe Galleries. 2012. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  15. ^ Boucher, Brian (29 May 2013). "Singaporean Artist Scores at Art Basel in Hong Kong". Art in America. ARTnews. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  16. ^ Deepika, Shetty (23 May 2013). "Art Basel, HK off to flying start". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  17. ^ "Chan Hampe Galleries at Art Basel HK". IndesignLive. 21 June 2013. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  18. ^ Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia (22 May 2013). "Artist Dawn Ng Unpacks Nomadic Lifestyle". Blouin Artinfo. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  19. ^ Ardia, C. A. Xuan Mai (27 March 2015). "8 artists to know at Art Paris Art Fair 2015". Art. Radar. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  20. ^ Ui-Hoon, Cheah (3 April 2015). "Eye-opening Art Paris fair". The Business Times. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  21. ^ Martin, Mayo (4 April 2015). "Bonjour, Singapour: The artistic ties that bind S'pore and France". TODAY. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  22. ^ Lim, Daniel Hilarion (10 May 2015). "Dawn Ng, Artist: To Paris With Love". Billionaire. Photography by Vanessa Caitlin. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  23. ^ Sammel, Sarah-Tabea (20 January 2018). "Dawn Ng and the 'Perfect Stranger'". The Artling. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  24. ^ Jie, Pan (24 January 2019). "Tinder Meets Theatre in Artist Dawn Ng's New Performance '11'". RICE. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  25. ^ Uttam, Payal (2020). "A Round Up of Singapore Art Week 2020". Design Anthology. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  26. ^ Kok, Jenevieve (29 January 2021). "Sullivan+Strumpf Presents 'Into Air' by Dawn Ng, A Pop-Up Exhibition". The Artling. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  27. ^ Toh, Wen Li (14 January 2020). "Art in a former repair workshop: The exhibition in Cavan Road is part of Twenty Twenty's Strange Things, a pop-up event of Singapore Art Week". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  28. ^ Hashimi, Hashirin Nuri (6 February 2020). "Singaporean Visual Artist Dawn Ng Explores the Concept of Time and Space in Her Latest Work". Dawn Ng. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
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