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
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2024
• "crafty" curated by The Critical Craft Collective Lab, GR.ID Singapore
• After "One and Three Chairs", curated by The Critical Craft Collective Lab, GR.ID Singapore
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2023
• The 25th Annual Ngee Ann National Teochew Artists’ Exhibition 2023, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries 1,2 & Lim Hak Tai Gallery NAFA Campus 1
• threads – A Critical Craft Collective Experiment, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE
• A Skin Of Paper, Part of Singapore Art Week, RJ Paper Warehouse
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2022
• Pameran Poskad 2022, Ion Art Gallery
• The 24th Ngee Ann National Teochew Artists’ Exhibition 2022, The Ngee Ann Konsi Galleries 1 & 2 and Lim Hak Tai Gallery
• Between the Covers of Our Daydreams, Earl Lu Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS), LASALLE College of the Arts
• The Story of Calico, part of Singapore Art Week 2022, UltraSuperNew Gallery Singapore
• Creative Intersections: In the Year of the Tiger, Chan + Hori Contemporary in partnership with Funan
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2021
• The 23rd Ngee Ann National Teochew Artists’ Exhibition 2021, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
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2020
• Street of Hope, Esplanade Drive.
• Street of Hope, Gillman Barracks Online Gallery
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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
• 2022 – Collaboration with Benjamin Barker for Creative Intersections: In The Year Of The Tiger, Funan Mall Singapore
• 2018 – Art commission for Capri by Fraser, China Square Hotel Lobby and multiple room mural designs with Canvas Art Consultants, part of Hirsch Bedner Associates
• 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.