2016 - 2018 Royal College of Art, London
2013 - 2016 Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 In my Head, Various Small Fires, Seoul
2023 Polyphony, rodolphe janssen, Brussels
2022 Antidote, Eton College, Windsor
2022 Private Pleasures, Bank Gallery, Shanghai
2021 In my Head, Yavuz Gallery, The Armory Show, New York
2020 Night Shift, Mine Project, Hong Kong
2020 Long Distance, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
2019 Supper Club, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2016 We will meet, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
2015 Passages, with Esmond Loh, UOB Art Gallery, Singapore
2005 The Hours, Jendela, Singapore
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The order of nature, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2023 Queer Intimacy, Taymour Grahne Projects, Cromwell Place, London
2021 Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London
2020 The Possibility of an Island, Arndt Art Agency, Cromwell Place, London
2020 Selections from the Yeap Lam Yeang Collection, The Private Museum, Singapore
2020 The foot beneath the flower, NTU ADM, Singapore
2020 Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
2020 Opening show, Coda Culture, Singapore
2019 Points of Articulation, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2019 Summer group show, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London
2019 London Original Print Fair, Jealous Print Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2019 Raw Forms, Coda Culture, Singapore
2019 Deviations, 59 Hackney Road, London
2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2018 All you can see, Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo
2018 Thumbnails, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2017 Bilateral Bonds, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2017 And then..., NN Contemporary, Northampton
2015 Common Ground, Shophouse 5, Singapore
2015 Great Peranakans, Peranakan Museum, Singapore
2015 Fresh Takes, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 Ingram Prize
2019 Jealous Prize
2018 Chadwell Award
2017 Griffin Art Prize, Longlist
2017 HIX Art Award, Finalist
2017 Royal Drawing School residency, Scotland
2016 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2016 Red Mansion Art Prize Shortlist
2005 United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Award
COLLECTIONS
UOB Collection (Singapore)
Peranakan Museum (Singapore)
Ilham Gallery (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
X Museum (Beijing, China)
Fosun Foundation (Shanghai, China)
Ingram Collection (London, UK)
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK)
Foundation Medianoche (Granada, Spain)
Stahl Collection (Norrkoping, Sweden)
Sunpride Foundation (Hong Kong)
SELECTED PRESS
“Art SG: Alvin Ong’s grotesque bodies explore isolation, nostalgia and desire”, Y-Jean Mun-delsalle, Prestige, 18 Jan 2024
“Binge Watch: Alvin Ong @ Yavuz Gallery”, Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Magazine, 26 January, 2022
“In Pictures: See the Images that captured the Highs and Lows of 2021”, Artnet, 29 December, 2021
“The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2021”, Benjamin Sutton, Artsy, 10 September, 2021
“The ‘Night Shift’ - Alvin Ong in Hong Kong”, Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Magazine, 5 November, 2020
“Alvin Ong’s paintings close the (social) distance”, Tessa Moldan, Ocula Magazine, 5 June 2020
“本地画家王亮杰悉尼个展 巧合地描绘居家隔离生活”, 黄向京, 联合早报, 28 May, 2020
“He’s going the “Long Distance”, Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Magazine, 26 May, 2020
Hopper prize artist interview, 16 April 2020
“年轻画家王亮杰视作画如烹饪”, 联合早报, 6 March, 2019
Art Verge review, 24 January 2019
Floorr magazine interview, 2 October 2018
Youngspace interview, 27 July 2018
"This chimerical mode of working is what excites me...", ArtMaze Magazine interview, 23 June 2018
"BP Portrait Award 2018 review", in Timeout London, 13 June 2018
"Walking the pilgrim's way", Cherwell, 30 January, 2017
"前得奖者双人展年轻画家一展写实功力", 联合早报, 17 September, 2015
"A Young Painter's Promise", the Peranakan, Issue 01/15, p. 40-1
"The Artist's Window - Interview with Alvin Ong", exhibition catalogue
"Unlikely Prodigy", Elite, August 2005, Issue 4
"Boy, Uninterrupted", The Straits Times, 18 July, 2005