Jennifer Ng
Jennifer Ng
In her practice, Jennifer creates spaces where visuality and materiality are inextricably interwoven, where markings and imprints function as visceral invitation into otherwise inaccessible complexities.Through painting and performance art practices, she explore the phenomena of 'displacement', 'being', 'belonging', and 'becoming'. Using Chinese ink, she aims to create imageries that connecting to deep, embedded emotions, not at once obvious, but resonating over time. While associating with the ancient historicity of thought and language, the black ink also evokes the indescribable, intense, and infinitely emotional qualities. For Jennifer, this material embodies a language of non-language, speaking through its seepage across surfaces, its weight and immensity, and the dense, uncompromising blackness it holds. Jennifer's multifaceted practice invites consideration of her works as connecting fragments and each work as part of a continuum.
Jennifer Ng received her first formal art education at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), where she was trained in the mediums of traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal-carving. Further developing her practice, she adopted an interdisciplinary, research-based approach. Believing in the narrative potential of materials, she explore transformative qualities to gain new understandings.
Over the years, she had presented art and research internationally. Some examples (UK) include The London Art Biennale, the Royal Society of British Artists exhibitions, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists exhibitions, the Women In Art Fair exhibition, the Bath Fringe Festival, and performances in London, Bath, Manchester, and Singapore. She also exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, Stamford Arts Centre, the National Institute of Education Gallery, The Substation, Your Mother Gallery, Ion Art Gallery, and the Yavuz Gallery (now Ames Yavuz) .She also co-founded The Artist Company (SG) in 2019, an art research project that explores and curates collective art-making.
Jennifer holds a doctoral degree in Practice-led research from the Birmingham City University in the UK. She now lives and practice in the UK.
Exhibitions / Performances
2026 'Cornu', collaborative Performance/Live art, Bidston Observatory, United Kingdom
2026 'Gold Cannot Buy' (金不換), Performance/Live Art, hARTslane Gallery, United Kingdom
2026 March Equinox, Performance/Live Art, United Kingdom
2026 Summer Show, Gallery At Home, Wales, United Kingdom
2026 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2025 'Same Moon Different Suns', Performance/ Live Art, 'London Group Open', United Kingdom
2025 A(Sense) of Asian Performance Video Art Festival [Online Feature]
2025 RBSA Watercolour Prize Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2025 In The Gray Area Exhibition, Gray Area Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
2025 RBSA Summer Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2025 Summer Show, Gallery At Home, Wales, United Kingdom
2025 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2024 Women In Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2024 RBSA Prize Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2024 'Same Moons But Different Suns', 'Emergency 24', Performance/Live Art, Word of Warning + Contact, Manchester, United Kingdom
2024 'Shifting Ground', 'Odyssey of Oddities #2', Performance/Live Art, Riverside Studios, London, United Kingdom
2024 'Light Conversation', Personal Shrine Project', Fringe Arts Bath, Newark Works, Bath, United Kingdom
2024 'Black water Blade: 5 am', Fringe Arts Bath, Performance/Live Art, Newark Works, Bath, United Kingdom
2024 '7 /8 [七/ 八]', 'Time in Performance art', presented by The Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), London, United Kingdom
2023 '現 Between The Lines', Presence', presented by The Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), London, United Kingdom
2023 Bath Open Art Exhibition, Fringe Arts Bath, 44AD artspace, Bath, United Kingdom
2023 London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, United Kingdom
2023 'Black Water Blade, 'Intimacy': An Evening of Live and Performance Art, presented by The Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), London, United Kingdom
2023 Enough To See, But Not Enough To See By, Worcester, United Kingdom
2023 The 'Lost' Peranakan Reimagined, Viva Exposition, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2023 Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Annual Exhibition 2023, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2022 Art Gemini Prize 2022 Exhibition, Y2ARTS Gallery, Singapore
2022 Creative Art Showcase Exhibition, Bromsgrove School Arena and Hospitality Suite, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom
2022 Broadway Art Festival, Broadway Museum and Art Gallery, Broadway, United Kingdom
2022 Worcestershire Open Studios, Worcester, United Kingdom
2022 Art Booster Programme, Figment Canvas House, Singapore
2021 Art Trail, Ludlow Art Fringe: Echoes in the Landscape, Parish Church of St Laurence, Ludlow, United Kingdom
2020 Blackboard Schemes, Fertile Art Refinery,The Substation, Singapore
2020 'Chukop', Inside/Out Festival’, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2019 ‘Sembagraphie’, Stitchen Haus Da Opera performance group, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2019 'Buang Suay', Wu Wei Performance Series, 51 Waterloo Street, Singapore
2019 'Texting Red and Green', Wu Wei Performance Series, Stamford Arts Centre, Singapore
2019 In-Between, Junior College Teachers’ Exhibition, National Institute of Education Art Gallery, National Technological University, Singapore
2018 Homecoming: Chen Wen Hsi Exhibition @ Kingsmead, Performance/Live Art, organised by Artcommune Gallery, Singapore
2018 ‘Got Your Name or Not?’, community-based participatory art project, Your Mother Gallery, supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore
2018 Improvisational group performance , ‘Letters to Theo’, with Station House Da Opera performance group, Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, Singapore
2017 Improvisational group performance, 'Our Children, with Station House Da Opera performance group, Esplanade Outdoor Theatre, & the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2016'One By One Metre Space' Exhibition, A Sungei Road Project, Singapore Art Week, Flaeur Gallery, supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore
2016 'Survey: Space, Sharing, Haunting exhibition', The Substation, Singapore
2016 'Moment... Ummm', an artist-teachers' exhibition, The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education, National Technological University, Singapore
2014 'Unearthed', Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2013 'Between Conversations', Yavuz Fine Arts, Singapore
2012 Collaborative performance at 'Alethia' exhibition, The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education, National Technological University, Singapore
2006 NIE Graduation Show, Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore
1998- 2003 Siaw-Tao Seal Carving Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese Painting Exhibitions, various venues
1998 'Inkspiration II', Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
1997 'Singapore Art 97', Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore
1995 'Han Mo Xin Yun' Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Exhibition, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
1995 'Women's Art Exhibition', Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
Presentations / Publications
2024 Artists' Talk, RBSA Prize Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2023 'The 'lost' Peranakan Reimagined: Creating new interpretation of lost Peranakan objects through contemporary artistic imagination, doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2022 Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, Special Edition, 32 page feature
2021 'What Art Research Can Be’, Lecture (online), for MA/PhD module on Intercultural Competence using Singapore as a case study, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2021 ‘Legends and Legacy Between: Collaborative Artists Book’, online publication to accompany IMPACT 11 International Printmaking Conference, Hong Kong, Material Encounters Research Cluster at the Birmingham Institute of Creative Art, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2021 ‘The Illogical Progression of the Mythological Bird’, Inside//Out: A PhD Research Festival, Performance presentation (online), Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2020 ‘Peranakan Whispers’, Created Identities, Performance presentation (online), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2020 ‘Peranakan Whispers’, Connectedness: Interactions, provocations, collaborations conference, Performance presentation (online), Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2020 ‘Chukop’, performance presentation, Inside//Out : A PhD Research Festival, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2018 ‘Got Your Name or Not?’ , co-presentation, Distributed Authorship: Considering Post-autonomous Art Practice, The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference in Australia (Melbourne)
2017 ‘Using Art Journal as a Tool for Active Re-searching’, Workshop Presentation, Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference, National institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2016 ‘A/r/tographical Research in Art Education’ , paper presentation, Second Student Conference for Visual Arts’, Nanyang Technological University Centre For Contemporary Art, Singapore
2014 ‘Art Education at Junior College’, CARE Forum Series,Pedagogies and Practices in Junior College Arts Education, organised by UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), Singapore
2013 ‘Pulling Grass To Make It Grow’ ,CARE Forum Series,Pedagogies and Practices in Arts Education towards issues of diversity and inclusion, Yavuz Fine Art, organised by UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), Singapore
Education
2023 Doctoral degree in Practice-based research, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
2017 Master degree in Art education, Nanyang Technological University , National Institute of Education, Singapore
2008 Bachelor of Arts Nanyang Technological University , National Institute of Education, Singapore
2006 Diploma in Art education, Nanyang Technological University , National Institute of Education, Singapore
1996- 1998 Advanced Chinese Painting certificate, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
1995 Diploma in Fine Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Awards
2025 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Highly Commended Award, RBSA Watercolour Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2024 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Watercolour Prize, RBSA Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2023 Bath Open Art Prize People's Choice, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 44AD artspace, Bath, United Kingdom
2005 Dr. Tan Tsze Chor Art Awards, Distinction, organised by the Singapore Art Society, 56th Annual Exhibition
2004 The 23rd UOB Painting Of The Year Competition, Highly Commended Award, Open Section, Singapore
2004 Circle of Life, Best Entry Award, organised by epSITE (EPSON Imaging Gallery), Singapore
1995 - 1998 The 14th, 15th, and 17th UOB Painting Of The Year Competition, Certificate of Commendation, Open Section, Singapore
1995 National Arts Council, Bursary, Singapore
1994 Lee Foundation, Study grant, Singapore
1994 Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts 56th Anniversary Celebration, Student Excellence Award for Chinese Painting Category, Singapore