Singapore-born artist Alvin Ong (b. 1988) works between Singapore and London. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, graduating in 2016, and completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in 2018. He won Singapore’s UOB Painting of the Year award in 2005. His exhibitions include Supper Club in Singapore, Body and Blood in Sydney and Sayang in Los Angeles.

Ong’s paintings bring together different visual traditions in scenes of distorted bodies and close, sometimes uncomfortable proximity. Everyday gestures become exaggerated, holding pleasure and unease within the same image. The figures remain recognisably human even as their proportions depart from the familiar.

Old Boy and Gala introduce this figurative language through two individual works presented by Three Over Six.