ARTIST BIO
About Ong Yee Yong
Ong Yee Yong (1997, Singapore) is a printmaking artist who works in a variety of media. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her artworks question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the work is important.
She makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Work Experience
The following is a list of all past professional experiences in the career of Yee Yong. Each role has been unique and has contributed specific elements to their personal and professional development. For references or additional information about anything listed below, get in touch directly.
BUKUMINI EXHIBITION 2016
June 2016
Titled "Book Full of Dreams"
How much does a book worth in our eyes, the price or it's worth of many people reading it. A lot of books are bought and placed on the shelves while they collect dust, and people always ignore library books that are torn and dirty. In the end what makes the a book, a book? For my piece i'm challenging people how books are perceived. The different colours that is on the book represents how much people had touched it with their hands, their thumbprints that is on every page and the colour they had chosen. Each small detail of their favourite colours, their moods, the way they painted defines the personality of this book.
LASALLE OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITION 2017
August 2017
Exhibited one of my Aquatint and Etching prints titled "On Water".
LASALLE GRADUATION SHOW 2019
May - June 2019
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Exhibited a sculpture titled " Go On "
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/lasalle-show-exhibition-2019
LASALLE WORK IN PROGRESS SHOW 2021
February - March 2021
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Exhibited a Mix media sculpture titled "Entropy"
LASALLE ONE NIGHT ONLY ONLINE SHOW 2021
November 2021
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Wearable Art titled "Duality"
https://www.onenightonly.sg/ono-2021-students/ong-yee-yong
LASALLE WORK IN PROGRESS SHOW 2022
NO HARM NO FOUL
March - April 2022
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Exhibited an artwork titled "Mundane"
LASALLE BA(HONS) FINE ARTS GRADUATION EXHIBITION 2022
MY HANDS ON MY SEAT
April - May 2022
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Exhibited an artwork titled "Atlas of the Ordinary"
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/my-hands-my-seat-bahons-fine-arts-graduation-exhibition-2022
LASALLE SHOW EXHIBITION 2022
May - June 2022
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Exhibited an artwork titled "Atlas of the Ordinary"
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/lasalle-show-exhibition-2022
https://tls.lasalle.edu.sg/2022/mcnally-school-of-fine-arts/bahons-fine-arts/ong-yee-yong
Internships/Volunteers
Dec 2018 STPI Internship
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November 2019 Volunteered for Joint Project by UBS Singapore, Community Foundation of Singapore and LASALLE College of the Arts. Titled "A Tree Reborn"
June - Aug 2021 Internship at Thearthaus
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