Alvin Ong

(Born) 1988 in Singapore
(Based) Singapore and London, UK
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Ong engages the world from various vantage points, the experience of navigating life between Singapore and London deeply informs his practice. His technique is characterised by rapid, large and impulsive brushstrokes in a palette of yellow ochre, cerulean, cobalt tones, prussian blues and alizarin crimson.

The artist’s primary interest lies in conveying the wide spectrum of thoughts, dreams and emotions endured by the human body. Elongated expressive figures inhabit his compositions, connected across time and space by sweeping dynamic layers of paint. He explores the ambivalent ‘inside out’ and ‘upside out’ sentiment, of being at once here and nowhere, a sentiment amplified by the recent pandemic which propagated the stigmatization of contact and created new concepts of distance.

Ong combines his distinct visual language with art history references from Old Masters to contemporary art. He subsumes the language of others from Tintoretto’s and El Greco’s expressive use of light, Cubists’ manipulation of perspectives, to his contemporaries such as Nicole Eisenman and Salman Toor who explore the ambiguous complexities around identity and sexuality.
— Kami Gahiga

He was awarded a residency in 2017 with the Royal Drawing School, as well as the 2018 Chadwell Award. His works have been exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore; Peranakan Museum, Singapore; Northampton Contemporary, Northampton, UK; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, and Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. His works are collected by the ILHAM Gallery, Malaysia, X Museum China, the Ingram Collection, UK, and the Victoria & Albert Museum (Print Collection), London, UK.

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  • Alvin Ong, Rempah
  • Alvin Ong, Hotel
  • Alvin Ong, Night Shift
  • Alvin Ong, We will meet again
  • Alvin Ong, Late bloomer
  • Alvin Ong, Mirror
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Lap
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Private view
  • Alvin Ong, Life lines
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Dondang sayang
  • Alvin Ong, These nights I think of you
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Antidote
  • Alvin Ong, Polyphony
  • Alvin Ong, Nap
  • Alvin Ong, Homesick
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Private Pleasures’
  • Alvin Ong, Thinking of you
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Private Pleasures’
  • Alvin Ong, Into great silence
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Private Pleasures’
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Private Pleasures’
  • Alvin Ong, Sayang
  • Alvin Ong, Supper Club
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Binge Watch’
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Binge Watch’
  • Alvin Ong, Desktop
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Binge Watch’
  • Alvin Ong, Night walk
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Binge Watch’
  • Alvin Ong, Binge Watch
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Binge Watch'
  • Alvin Ong, Insomniac #5
  • Alvin Ong, Insomniac #11
  • Alvin Ong, Moonlight
  • Alvin Ong, Morning kiss
  • Alvin Ong, 'In My Head'
  • Alvin Ong, ‘In My Head’
  • Alvin Ong, Longing
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Long distance’
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Long distance’
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Long distance’
  • Alvin Ong, ‘Long distance’
  • Alvin Ong, Quarantine
  • Alvin Ong, Long distance’
  • Alvin Ong, Resident tourist
  • Alvin Ong, 'Night shift'
  • Alvin Ong, 'Night shift'
  • Alvin Ong, 'Night shift'
  • Alvin Ong, Sayang
  • Alvin Ong, ‘The foot beneath the flower’
  • Alvin Ong, The Lover’s Inventory

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