38-year-old Donna Ong is an installation artist from Singapore best known for her evocative and immersive environments created from found objects, furniture and original artworks. 

Ong was the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2009 President’s Young Talents Exhibition and the National Art Council’s Young Artist Award 2009. Her installations have also appeared at several international biennales including 2008 Venice Biennale.

Represented by Primo Marella, Milan

Image: The Sixth Day, 2008. Mixed media, variable dimension.

David Chan works with brightly coloured oils on linen, painting in a realistic style using animals as his main subject. While the 37-year-old’s works might appear comical or cute at first glance, there’s often a deeper social commentary about human behaviour behind them.  

Chan won the 2004 UOB Painting of the Year Prize and is currently working on a commissioned installation for the Singapore Art Museum this month.

Represented by Art Seasons, Singapore

Image: Aries, 2015. Highly Polished Stainless Steel & Rubber Animals, 52 x 32 x 42 cm. Courtesy of Art Seasons.

Ruben Pang is an emerging Singaporean artist known for his ethereal works painted on aluminium. He works with oil paint and alkyd resin, scratching and erasing his paintings using brushes, hands, palette knives and sandpaper, revealing layers of colour that reflect projections of his psyche.

The 26-year-old made the news in 2014 when nine of his paintings were sold within the first hour of the fair. Pang was selected as a Singapore Finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2010 and 2011. 

Represented by Primo Marella, Milan and Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore. 

Image: What Nourishes Me Destroys Me, 2015. Oil, alkyd and retouching varnish on aluminum,140 x 112cm. Courtesy of Primo Marella.

52-year-old Jimmy Ong has been working with charcoal since his early still-life drawings in the 1980s with human figures as his the primary subject and interest of his drawings. Currently working from his studios in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, he considers drawing a form of spiritual practice and his works are deeply influenced by Buddhism. 

Represented by Fost Gallery, Singapore.

Image: Staghorn Rorschach, 2015. Charcoal and color pigment on paper, 122 x 241 cm. Courtesy of Fost Gallery.

Sydney-based Suzann Victor is best known for her compelling public artworks and installations that respond to space and architecture, including kinetic works that move in space. The 57-year-old artist represented Singapore at the 49th Venice Biennale. Last year, her swinging chandeliers Contours of a Rich Manoeuvre was one of the key artworks in the public space at the fair, while this year she’ll be showing a series of works on paper at the STPI booth.

Represented by Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore.

Image: Little and Without Tears, 2015. Coloured paper pulp on assembled polycarbonate sheets, 20.5 x 20.5cm. Courtesy of STPI.

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