Dawn Ng is a multidisciplinary visual artist who works across a diverse range of mediums, motifs, and large-scale installations. Her practice investigates concepts of time, memory, nostalgia, and temporality. In her most significant and ongoing body of work, “Into Air,” Ng incorporates ice—the ultimate ephemeral material in the tropical climate of her native country—to articulate time’s shifts and nuances, through a series of paintings, films, photographic prints, light boxes, and performance. Often characterized by visual and emotive connections to landscape and geology, Ng’s work explores time’s transience through markmaking in a resplendence of color, texture, and detail.

To date, the artist’s work has been collected and commissioned by various international institutions and museums across Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Photo credit: Portrait of Dawn Ng, Caline Ng