RESUME & PERSONAL DATA
Simon Ng Yong Heng
EDUCATION
2012 Master of Art, Fine Art LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2009 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Fine Arts (Painting) LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2008 Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
1995 Diploma in Visual Communications (Graphic Design) Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
AWARDS & GRANTS
2012 The WINSTON OH Postgraduate Fine Art Research Fund
2008 The WINSTON OH Travel Award
2008 LASALLE Progression Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
MYSTERIOUS SKIN – Chan Hampe Galleries Singapore
2014
SCENES – Artistry Gallery Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
START at Gillman Barracks, Singapore
9 Lives Art & Design Show, Aliwal Arts Night Crawl, Malay Heritage Centre
9 Lives Art & Design Show, Part of Singapore Design Week, 51 Waterloo Art Center
2018
Scale – Chan + Hori Contemporaries Singapore
Outsider Fashion Art Festival at the Projector Singapore
2017
Affordable Art Fair (November Edition), with John Fawcett Foundation / TBWA Singapore
Outsider Fashion Art Festival 2017, In collaboration with fashion label Voltaire Visions, Big Box Hyper.mart, Singapore
Back to Basic – Arteles Creative Centre, Haukijärvi, Finland
The Ubi, Ubi! Show - Part of Singapore Art Week 2017
2016
Bi-lateral Bonds – Taksu Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bi-lateral Bonds – Taksu Gallery Singapore
2015
Pameran Poskad 2015, Gillman Barracks Singapore
CRUISE show, Shophouse 5 by Chan Hampe Galleries Singapore
Field Trip Project Singapore, National Institute of Education (NIE) Art Gallery, Singapore 2014
Affordable Art Fair Singapore F1 Pit Building
Notes to Self, Taksu Singapore
2013
Affordable Art Fair Singapore F1 Pit Building
Worlds Apart Fair Fringe Millennial Walk
2012
The VIP MFA Art Fair 1st - 25th Jun 2012
REDRESS - Stop The Traffic! ION Art, Singapore. 14th Nov – 17th Nov 2012
Landing Places Objectifs, Singapore. 16th Aug – 09th Sept 2012
Premiere Artistry, Singapore. 15th July – 17th Aug 2012
Come Away With Me ICA Gallery 2, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. 3rd – 15th May 2012
Instinctively – Art + Music + Writing + Animals The Pigeonhole, Singapore 1st – 13th May 2012
2011
Tropical Lab 5 “Masak-Masak” ICA Gallery 2, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. 24th Sep - 7th Oct 2011
Breadcrumbs: An MA Fine Arts ‘Works-in-progress’ Exhibition Earl-Lu Gallery LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 8th – 21st September
Moove Media Hails Young Talents 2011 Dhoby Ghaut North East Line Station 1st May – 30th June
Culture of the Fragment LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 18th February
2010
Pameran Poskad 10 my art space, 21 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 18th – 1st May
2009
The Longest Distance - The 10th Anniversary of The Winston Oh Travel Award Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 3rd – 22nd September
The LASALLE Show 09 Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Singapore 22nd May – 7th June
No Signature Required Project Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 5th – 14th February
Sour Jokes SG Private Banking Gallery, Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore 29th January – 7th February
2008
Insert Title Art Studio, Old School, Singapore. 18 – 27th September
Travelogue No. 9 Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 28th August – 5th September
Bodies Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 22nd February - 27th March
2007
‘Gradually Naturally – Drawings about Momentum and All Things Organic’ Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
CURATED EXHIBITION
2012 Co-curated with Betty Susiarjo for 'Beyond Limits', Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2012 Co-curated with Susan Olij, Bharti Lalwani for 'REDRESS: Stop the Traffic', Ion Art Space, Singapore
INTERNATIONAL ART RESIDENCY
2017 – Arteles Creative Centre, Finland
ARTIST TALK
2018 – Diploma Level 3 workshop, Lasalle College of the Arts
2014 – Flaneur Art Singapore
2015 – Diploma Level 3 workshop, Lasalle College of the Arts
2011 – 5th Tropical Lab Singapore
PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIONS
2017 – Fashion label Voltaire.Visions X Simon Ng titled EXPERIMENT V COLLAB 17/18
Mentioned in Herworld.com - The Coolest Fashion Collabs And Collections To Get Your Hands On
WORKSHOPS
2019 – Charles & Keith Singapore VIP Customization Workshop
2011 – 5th Tropical Lab Singapore, International Art Workshop, Lasalle College of the Arts
2011 – Curator Lab: 100 Objects (Remix) Workshop NUS Museum
2009 – Beth Harland’s Fragmentation Project Participants,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Longest Distance, The 10th Anniversary of The Winston Oh Travel Award Catalogue, Pg 72,
Published by LASALLE College of the Arts.
Tan Jack Ying, A Decade of Winston Oh Travel Award, The Praxis Press, Pg 10, Published by LASALLE College of the Arts.
Gwen Pew, Cheat Sheet – Simon Ng, Time Out Singapore February Issue, Pg 60, Published by Mongoose Publishing Pte Ltd.
Chitra Santhinathan, Art Ascension, Air Asia Travel3sixty Issue December 2015, Pg 116, Published by AirAsia Berhad.
The Strait Times, Stand Tall, Through Thick and Thin, Here or There, Lifestyle Section August 5, 2016.
Murphy, Michelle and Lefebvre, Baptiste. “Issue#12: FAT, Pg 18, 22, 23.” MAKE8ELIEVE, November 2017. Accessed December, 2017. https://issuu.com/make8elieve/docs/m8-12/1?ff
Claire Turrell, Old Masters New Artists, Harper's Bazaar Art Singapore Magazine January 2018 Issue, Pg 14, Published by SPH Magazines.