Artist Jimmy ONG 王文清 Born 1964; Singapore Works Yogyakarta, Indonesia Artist Biography __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Education 1989 – 1992 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA 1988 Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy 1984 – 1985 Center for Creative Studies, Michigan, USA __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Exhibitions 2021 S.E.A. Focus Curated: hyper-horizon with FOST Gallery, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore* 2019 Poverty Quilt/A Year in Java, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore* In Its Place, FOST Gallery, Singapore Raw Forms, Coda Culture, Singapore 2018 Open House! Emerald Hill, Singapore Art Fair Philippines with FOST Gallery, Manila, Philippines A beast, a god, a line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1, Yangon, Myanmar; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland 2017 Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan Art Stage Jakarta with FOST Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia Art Stage Singapore with FOST Gallery, Singapore 2016 Art Stage Jakarta with FOST Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia* From Bukit Larangan to Borobudur: Recent Drawings by Jimmy Ong 2000 – 2015, FOST Gallery, Singapore* Java Stories, Art Basel Hong Kong with FOST Gallery, Hong Kong, China* Art Stage Singapore with FOST Gallery, Singapore 2015 Echoes of Anticipation, FOST Gallery, Singapore __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ *Solo Exhibition FOST Private Limited /Gallery 1 Lock Road /Education #01-02, Gillman Barracks /Advisory Singapore 108932 Telephone 65 6694 3080 E-mail [email protected] Website www.fostgallery.com 2/10 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Exhibitions (cont’d) Siapa Nama Kamu?, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Something to Write Home About: 8288 Nautical Miles, La MaMa, as part of Singapore: Inside Out, New York, USA Land Before Our Time: A Vernacular South-East Asian Art Making, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Galleries 1 & 2, Singapore Singapore Survey 2015: Hard Choices, Artspace @ Helutrans, Singapore {The History of Java}, FOST Gallery, Singapore* 2014 Jimmy Ong, FOST Gallery, Singapore* 2013 Elo Progo, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA* Recent Gifts: Works and Documents of Lim Mu Hue and Jimmy Ong, National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore 2013 Singapore Short Cuts 10, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Makcik Project, Biennale Jogja XII, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2012 Singapore Survey 2012: Strange New Faces, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2011 Transfiguring, The Private Museum, Singapore Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2010 SGD, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore* Sitayana, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA* Beyond LKY, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2009 The Air Conditioned Recession, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2008 Ancestors on the Beach, Post Museum and Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore* The Scale of Black, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2006 Nature Born, Langgeng Contemporary Art Festival, Magelang, Indonesia 2005 Vision & Resonance, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ *Solo Exhibition 3/10 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Exhibitions (cont’d) 2004 Rocks & Water, Block 43 Studio Gallery, Singapore* The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, USA 2003 Trees in a Garden, Lunuganga, Bentota, Sri Lanka* 2002 Portable Prayer, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA* 2001 Lovers’ Rocks, Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia* 2000 Alter-Altar, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong* 12 ASEAN Artists, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Love on Paper, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1999 Studies for a Deity, Gallery 456, New York, USA* The Other Woman, Dagmar Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA* Tolong, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1998 German Week, the Deutsche Bank Art Collections, Chijmes Gallery, Singapore 1997 Lovers & Ancestors, Cicada Gallery, Singapore* Art Power, in aid of The Substation – A Home for the Arts, Chijmes Gallery, Singapore 1996 Interaction, Cicada Gallery, Singapore 1995 Figurative Works, Mulligan Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, USA 1994 Five Directions, Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore Windows on Singapore Art, various venues, Hong Kong and China 1991 Many in One, Meridian House International, Washington D.C., USA 1990 Art Travel East West, World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands Jimmy Ong - Drawings, Goethe Institut, Singapore* 1988 Familiar Stranger/Distant Relative, Dragon Court (artist’s studio), Singapore* __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ *Solo Exhibition 4/10 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Exhibitions (cont’d) Table Drawings, Art Forum, Singapore* 1987 The Children of, Arbour Fine Art Gallery, Singapore* 1986 Table Drawings, ArtTrain Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA* 1984 The Drawings of Jimmy Ong, Alliance Française, Singapore* __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Talks and Performances 2019 Covered Causeway, OH! Open House Passport (performance) {The History of Java} Revisited by Jimmy Ong, Asian Civilisations Museum (performance and talk) 2018 Open Love Letters, OH! Open House Emerald Hill (performance) __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Awards & Prizes 1992 Charles Toppan Drawing Prize, Philadelphia, USA 1988 Anna K Meredith Scholarship, New York, USA 1985 Alliance of Independent Colleges Art Scholarship 1980 2nd Prize, Young People’s Section, UOB Painting of the Year, Singapore __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Collections Deutsche Bank AG Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore National Gallery Singapore National University of Singapore Museum Singapore Art Museum Permanent Mission to the UN, New York, USA International corporate and private collections __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Publications 2018 Costinas, Cosmin. A beast, a god, and a line, Hong Kong: Para Site, exhibition catalogue, p. 48 2017 Hu, Sean C. S., “Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues And Art Now”, Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, pp. 48 – 51 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5/10 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Publications (cont’d) 2016 Sabapathy, T.K., From Bukit Larangan to Borobudur: Recent Drawings by Jimmy Ong 2000-2015, Singapore: FOST Gallery 2015 Low, Sze Wee (Ed.), Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since The 19th Century. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, pp. 271, 289 The UOB Art Collection – Drawing From Our Past, Framing Our Future, Singapore: United Overseas Bank, pp. 130 – 131 2014 Recent Gifts – Works And Documents Of Lim Mu Hue & Jimmy Ong. Singapore: National University of Singapore Museum, pp. 13 – 28 2010 SGD. Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute 2008 Lee, Peter. Ancestors On The Beach. Singapore: Valentine Willie Fine Art 2006 Nature Born. Yogyakarta: Langgeng Contemporary Art Festival 2002 Lee, Peter. Trees In A Garden. Singapore: Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd 2001 Lee, Peter. Lovers’ Rocks: Jimmy Ong, Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd 2000 Lee, Peter. “Talking Charcoal”, 12 ASEAN Artists, Kuala Lumpur: National Art Gallery, Malaysia 1999 Lee, Peter. Alter Altar. Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd 1988 Sabapathy, T.K., “Drawing as Spectacle”, Familiar Stranger/Distant Relative, Dragon Court (artist’s studio), Singapore 1997 Sheares, Constance. Lovers & Ancestors: An Exhibition of Recent Drawings by Jimmy Ong, Singapore: Cicada Gallery of Fine Art, Exhibition catalogue 1980 Painting of the Year Competition, Singapore: United Overseas Bank __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Bibliography 2021 Moldan, Tessa. “S.E.A. Focus Connects Southeast Asia With Hybrid Format”, Ocula [Hong Kong; online], 26 January, ocula.com/magazine/insights/sea-focus-connects-southeast-asia-with-hybrid/ __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6/10 __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Year Selected Bibliography (cont’d) 2020 Ong, Sor Fern. “Arts Picks: Stay home quilt open house”, The Straits Times [Singapore; online], 02 October, straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/arts-picks-stay-home-quilt-open-house Yamin, Johann. “out of isolation: artists respond to covid-19”, National Gallery Singapore [Singapore; online], 22 September, nationalgallery.sg/magazine/out-of-isolation-covid-19-jimmy- ong-johann-yamin-uncursing-cotton