Ng Joon Kiat

Joon Kiat is a painter who works with the material language of paint as thought and conceptual processes. He develops art researches from archives of disciplines such as geography, microscopic science, history, cartography, surgical history and city-planning to interrogate for a painting practice. He started practicing in the late 1990s. He has actively participated in many exhibitions locally and internationally. His works have been exhibited in the U.K., Brazil and France as well as in the Asia Pacific galleries like Taksu Gallery (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Argayle Gallery (Sydney, Australia), INSA Art Center (Seoul, Korea), Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila), Mercury Gallery Bangkok (Thailand), Osage Gallery (Hong Kong), Pearl Lam Gallery (Shanghai) and Galeri Nasional, Medan Merdeka (Jakarta, Indonesia). Osage Gallery and the Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago) presented his works at ArtHK 2012. He was invited to exhibit at the He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China in 2012. His works have been collected by private collectors in Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, France, U.K., Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Africa, Australia and Switzerland since 1996.