Donna Ong
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Donna Ong (b. 1978, Singapore) is an installation artist from Singapore, best known for her evocative and thought-provoking environments made from furniture, found objects and original artwork. She exhibited at the inaugural edition of the Singapore Biennale in 2006 and the 2nd edition of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia the following year; and has also presented works at the Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2008); Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia (2009); Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia (2014); Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand (2018); and The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia (2018). Her multi-part installation Every World, commissioned for the Gallery Children’s Biennale at the National Gallery Singapore (2019) travelled to the Groninger Museum, Netherlands for the inaugural edition of the Kinderbiënnale in 2021.
Her installations have appeared in museums and institutions worldwide, such as the Singapore Art Museum; National Museum of Singapore; Hara Museum, Japan; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham University, UK; Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia; and Wälderhaus Museum, Hamburg, Germany. In 2009, she received the Singapore National Arts Council Young Artist Award, and also won the People’s Choice award for the President’s Young Talent Competition. Ong was conferred several awards while pursuing her Bachelor’s degrees in Fine Art and Architecture at Goldsmiths College, UK and University College London (UCL), UK respectively; including UCL’s Singapore Undergraduate Scholarship, the Shell-NAC Undergraduate Scholarship and the Architectural Theory Prize. She completed a Masters degree in Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, where she graduated at the top of her cohort (2012).
She has participated in several prestigious art residencies, such as Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan (2008); Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan (2009); BMW Young Artists, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2009), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2013); and Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (2015).
Ong lives and works in Singapore.