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