Annysa NG

Annysa Ng was born in Hong Kong.  She is now Lives and works in Hong Kong and New York.  She studied fine art at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenen Künste in Germany and School of Visual Arts in New York.  

 

Utilizing the structural and metaphoric potential of materials including bra straps, silk, hair, metal locks and coat hangers, Ng creates assemblages and installation that explore her interest in perception, unconscious, and the reality as perceived through various states of consciousness.

 

In the two-dimensional works, the intricate ink drawings of Elizabethan collars are rendered in such a precise, obsessive way, that one can feel its chokehold, yet the dots she uses to form the collar are extremely subtle and delicate.  Clothed in combinations of European and traditional Chinese costumes, the flat, featureless silhouetted female faces devoid of emotion and character are reference the identity and history of Hong Kong.  The work does not merely illustrate a combination of cultures take place in Hong Kong, but specifies the paradox of constructing void identity.  

 

She was awarded Manhattan Community Arts Fund, 2009/10 Fellowship recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/NYC, Osaka Governor Prize by Nippon Modern Fine Arts Association, Fellowship at National Academy in NY, and Residency at Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Czech Republic.  She launched her first solo show in New York in 2005, and her first solo show in London in 2009. Ng’s works have been exhibited internationally including the SCOPE art fair in Basel, 'Young Artists from New York 2007' at the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Czech Republic, Asian Contemporary Art Fair in New York, The Arts Collection NICHIGENTEN at Osaka Municipal Arts Museum in Japan and The 9th Chinese National Art Exhibition in Beijing.  Her work was collected by Deutsche Bank, the Stuttgart City Library, Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Pacific Century Premium Development Ltd, Hong Kong.  In 2008, she was named one of the Ten Talents to Watch in London Times.