Jimmy Ong – Curriculum Vitae

JIMMY ONG

Born in Singapore, 1964.

ART EDUCATION

1989-1992
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Awarded Charles Toppan Drawing Prize.

1988
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy. Awarded Anna K Meredith Scholarship.

1984-1985
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI. Awarded Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art Scholarship.

1980
Awarded UOB Painting of the Year, Youth 2nd Prize, Singapore.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Ancestors on the Beach, Post Museum and Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore.

2004
Rocks & Water, Block 43 Studio Gallery, Singapore.

2003
Trees in a Garden, Lunuganga, Bentota, Sri Lanka.

2002
Portable Prayer, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, NY.

2001
Lovers’ Rocks, Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2000
Alter-Altar, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong.

1999
Studies for a Deity, Gallery 456, New York, NY.

1999
The Other Woman, Dagmar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1997
Lovers & Ancestors, Cicada Gallery, Singapore.

1990
Jimmy Ong- Drawings, Goethe Institute, Singapore.

1988
Familiar Stranger/ Distant Relative, Artist studio/ Dragon Court, Singapore.

1988
Table Drawings, Art Forum, Singapore.

1987
The Children of, Arbour Fine Art Gallery, Singapore

1986
Table Drawings, ArtTrain Gallery, Detroit, MI.

1984
The Drawings of Jimmy Ong, Alliance Française, Singapore.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009
The Air Conditioned Recession, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore.

2008
The Scale of Black, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore.

2006
Nature Born, Langgeng Contemporary Art Festival, Magelang, Singapore.

2005
Vision & Resonance, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

2004
The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY.

2000
12 ASEAN Artists, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2000
ArtSingapore, MITA Atrium, Singapore.

2000
Love on Paper, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1999
Tolong, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1998
German Week, the Deutsche Bank Art Collections, Chijmes Gallery, Singapore.

1997
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, CA.

1994
Five Directions, Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore.

1994
Windows on Singapore Art, various venues, Hong Kong and China.

1991
Many in One, Meridian House International, Washington D.C.

1990
Art Travel East West, World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joanna Lee, Interview, “Nature Born,” Langgeng Contemporary Art Festival
Catalogue, Magelang, 2006.

Iola Lenzi, “Review: Jimmy Ong, Hong Kong,” Art Asia Pacific, Issue Number 28.

Peter Lee, ‘Talking Charcoal,” 12 ASEAN Artists, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2000.

Donald Dinwiddie, “Bodhisattva Pudica: The Nudes of Jimmy Ong,” Asian Art
Newspaper, Jan 2001.

Georgina Lee, “Review: A Matter of Extremes,” Hong Kong Standard, Dec 1999.

Collette Chattopadhyay, “Jimmy Ong at Dagmar,” Asian Art News, May/June 1999.

Leah Ollman, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times, 16 April 1999.

Juliana Lim, “For Jimmy,” Lianhe Zaobao, 6 August 1998.

Ian Findlay, “An Intimate World,” Asian Art News, September 1997, p. 74-77.

Ben Munroe, “An Artist Who Lets His Pieces Do The Talking,” The Business Times, Singapore 25 July 1997.

Constance Sheares, “Introduction,” Lovers & Ancestors, Cicada Gallery, Singapore ,1997.

Saw Kee Wah, “Review,” Lianhe Zaobao, July 1997.

Rachael Farnay, “Interaction in Cicada,” Asian Art News, July 1996.

T. Sasitharan, “The Play of Life,” The Straits Times Singapore, 24 August 1990.

T.K. Sabapathy, “Still-Life Fruits that Pulsate with Life and Vitality,” The Straits
Times Singapore, 17 May 1988.

T.K. Sabapathy, “Means of Expressing the Self in Terms of Others,” The Straits Times, Singapore, 29 May 1987.