Alvin Ong
(Born) | 1988 in Singapore |
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(Based) | Singapore and London, UK |

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
Images
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) We will meet again (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 61 x 76 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Late bloomer (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 150 x 120 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Mirror (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 31 x 26 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Lap (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 175 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Private view (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 260 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Life lines (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 175 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Dondang sayang (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 175 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) These nights I think of you (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 150 x 175 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Antidote (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 150 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Polyphony (Year) 2023 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Nap (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 61 x 76 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Homesick (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 175 x 145 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Private Pleasures’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) BANK Gallery (Location) Shanghai, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Thinking of you (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 90 x 76 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Private Pleasures’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) BANK Gallery (Location) Shanghai, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Into great silence (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 150 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Private Pleasures’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) BANK Gallery (Location) Shanghai, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Private Pleasures’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) BANK Gallery (Location) Shanghai, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Sayang (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 250 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Supper Club (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 51 x 41 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Binge Watch’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Binge Watch’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Desktop (Year) 2021 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 150 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Binge Watch’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Night walk (Year) 2021 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 250 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Binge Watch’ (Year) 2022 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Binge Watch (Year) 2021 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 250 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Binge Watch' (Year) 2022 (Institution) Yazuv Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Insomniac #5 (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 41 x 51 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Insomniac #11 (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 70 x 60 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Moonlight (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 30 x 35 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Morning kiss (Year) 2022 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 140 x 100 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) 'In My Head' (Year) 2021 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery, The Armory Show (Location) New York, USA -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘In My Head’ (Year) 2021 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery, The Armory Show, (Location) New York, USA -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Longing (Year) 2021 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 41 x 51 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Long distance’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Sydney, Australia -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Long distance’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Sidney, Australia -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Long distance’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Sidney, Australia -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘Long distance’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Sidney, Australia -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Quarantine (Year) 2020 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 175 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) Long distance’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) Yavuz Gallery (Location) Sidney, Australia -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Resident tourist (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 90 x 76 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) 'Night shift' (Year) 2020 (Institution) Mine Project (Location) Hong Kong, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) 'Night shift' (Year) 2020 (Institution) Mine Project (Location) Hong Kong, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) 'Night shift' (Year) 2020 (Institution) Mine Project (Location) Hong Kong, China -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) Sayang (Year) 2020 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 150 x 200 cm
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(Artist) Alvin Ong (Exhibition) ‘The foot beneath the flower’ (Year) 2020 (Institution) NTU ADM Gallery (Location) Singapore -
(Artist) Alvin Ong (Title) The Lover’s Inventory (Year) 2020 (medium) Oil on canvas (Dimensions) 200 x 175 cm
78 3/4 x 68 7/8 in