Dawn Ng is a multidisciplinary visual artist who works across a diverse range of mediums, motifs, and large-scale installations. Her practice investigates concepts of time, memory, nostalgia, and temporality. In her most significant and ongoing body of work, “Into Air,” Ng incorporates ice—the ultimate ephemeral material in the tropical climate of her native country—to articulate time’s shifts and nuances, through a series of paintings, films, photographic prints, light boxes, and performance. Often characterized by visual and emotive connections to landscape and geology, Ng’s work explores time’s transience through markmaking in a resplendence of color, texture, and detail.
To date, the artist’s work has been collected and commissioned by various international institutions and museums across Asia, Australia, and Europe.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dawn Ng, Frieze London, Kate MacGarry, UK
2024
An Atlas of Us, Frieze New York, USA
2023
Into Air, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2022
Into Air, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2022
Into Air, St Cyprian's Church, London
2021
INTO AIR, Gana Art, Seoul
2021
INTO AIR, Sullivan & Strumpf, Singapore
2020
MONUMENT MOMENTO, Sullivan & Strumpf, S.E.A Focus, Singapore
2019
11, Telok Ayer Arts Club, Singapore
2018
PERFECT STRANGER, Sullivan & Strumpf, Sydney
2018
PERFECT STRANGER, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
2016
HOW TO DISAPPEAR INTO A RAINBOW, Hermes Foundation, Singapore
2015
A THING OF BEAUTY, Art Paris Art Fair, France
2014
WINDOWSHOP, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
2013
SIXTEEN, Art Basel Hong Kong, Chan Hampe Galleries, Hong Kong
2012
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED IS RIGHT HERE, Chan Hampe Galleries
2011
WALTER, Photography and Installation, Marina Bay Gallery, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Excavation: Macro to the Micro, Vortic Art, online and House of KOKO, London, UK
2024
Wild, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
2023
Terra, Burgundy, France
2023
Luma, Silbury + East, London
2022
By a Thread, A.l Gallery, London
2022
Beyond Painting, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
2021
To Situations New, LAMB Arts, London
2020
MERRY-GO-ROUND, Twenty Twenty Art Show, Singapore
2019
Museum of Days, Sullivan & Strumpf, Singapore
2015
Young International Art Fair, Brussels
2013
Art Rafflesian, ChanHampe Galleries, Singapore
2013
Ambiguous Portrait of a Cunning Linguist, Ikkan Gallery, Singapore
2011
Full Fathom Five, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York
PUBLIC AND MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2024
Avalanche, Institute of Modern Art, Australia
2023
Time is a Black Circle, Commissioned Installation, National Museum Singapore
2023
Forever Now, Commissioned Installation, UBS Art Collection
2023
There is a Window in My Eye if You Look in You will See the Sky, Commissioned Installation, National Gallery Singapore
2020
PERFECT STRANGER, Commissioned Installation, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
2019
WALTER, Commissioned Installation, Artscience Museum, Singapore
2018
PINBALL, Commissioned Installation, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016
HOW TO DISAPPEAR INTO A RAINBOW, Commissioned Solo show, Hermes Gallery, Singapore
2015
WALTER, Gare Saint Sauveur Museum, Lille 3000, France
2015
WALTER, Singapour en France, MAC Lyon, Lyon France
2014
PERFECT DAY, Light Installation, Art in Motion, Loof, Singapore
2013
THE SIGN, National Arts Council Commission, East Coast Parkway, Singapore
2012
THIRTY ONE KINDS OF WONDERFUL, Future Proof Show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011
SUPERHIGH, Commissioned Installation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011
WALTER, Commissioned Installation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
FAIRS
2024
Art Basel, Kate MacGarry, Switzerland
2024
Art Basel, Sullivan + Strumpf, Hong Kong
2024
Art SG, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore
2023
Frieze London, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2023
Art Collaboration Kyoto, Sullivan + Strumpf, Japan
2023
Art SG, Gana Art, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore
2022
S.E.A Focus, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore
2019
Westbund Art & Design, Sullivan + Strumpf, Shanghai
2019
S.E.A Focus, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore
2017
DOROTHY, Jeju Biennale, Korea
PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTORS
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Singapore Land Group Limited
UBS Global Art, Singapore
Singapore Art Museum
Tumurun Private Museum, Indonesia
SCDA Architects, Singapore
Boston Consulting Group, Singapore
United Overseas Bank, Singapore
HSBC, Singapore
Odette, Singapore
Whey, Hong Kong
Facebook, Singapore
Dom Perignon, Singapore