Born 1988, Hong Kong
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Karin Weber Gallery artist Carmen Ng is a Hong-Kong based artist who renders her complex, city-inspired dreams in vivid and delightful detail on paper.
Carmen Ng captures a world that can only be imagined in dreams. The artist’s meticulously rendered scenes reveal the minutia of her subjects’ other worldly existences- no detail or cleverly imagined situation is too small to be rendered in exacting detail. This is all the more appreciated when the audience takes note that these highly controlled studies, which are rendered in watercolor.
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Carmen NgBorn 1988, Hong Kong Karin Weber Gallery artist Carmen Ng is a Hong-Kong based artist who renders her complex, city-inspired dreams in vivid and delightful detail on paper.
Born in Hong Kong, a truly unique city of high density and certain idiosyncrasy, the viewer might wonder if such imaginative subject matter could be rendered elsewhere. A genuine Hong Kong original, Ng’s works are thoughtful devices full of humor, simple truths and imaginative displays of our collective humanity.
Education 2011 Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Solo/ Duo Exhibitions 2023 ‘The Sparrow’s Song – Carmen Ng Solo Exhibition’, Lemna of the alchemist, HK 2021 ‘Flowers In The Window’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2019 ‘Place To Place’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2016 ‘Wood Whispers’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
Group Exhibitions 2023 Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2022 Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘Click…Clatter…Clunk…’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘A Collection in Two Acts’, Rossi & Rossi, HK 2021 ‘The Moment’ group exhibition, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, HK Fine Art Asia, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Unscheduled, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2020 ‘Now Showing’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘Viva! River’ public art project, Art Promotion Office, HK ‘Reflections On Paper‘, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Artsy x Art Central, Karin Weber Gallery 2019 ‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, HK ‘Six Briefcases’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘Matter’, SA+(Seoul Auction HK), HK 2018 ‘Factory Forward’, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, HK 2017 ‘Composing Stories With Fragments Of Time’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘Draw Gyeongju 2017’, Gyeongbuk Newspaper, Gallery Row, Gyeongju, South Korea ‘Paper Says – Metamorphosis Of Paper In Our Lives’, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, HK 2016 ‘A Small View’, Eslite Spectrum, HK ‘SHIFT’ AVA 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 2015 Para Site Annual Auction Gala, HK 2014 Art Projects Gallery x 1600 Pandas World Tour, HK ‘A Trove Of Small Treasures’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK ‘From 3G To 4G’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Asia Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong 2014, POAD, HK 2013 ‘ov=+’, Mingshi, HK ‘Um’, Mingshi, HK 2012 ‘Dreams & Reality’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK Asia Contemporary Art Show, Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2011 ‘8+3’ Exhibition, K11 Art Mall, HK ‘Eighty-Post-Eighties‘, Visual Arts Academy, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 2010
Awards 2018 The 11st Hong Kong Book Prize Award, RTHK, HK 2017 Distinguished Publishing Awards: Publishing Concept, the 29th Hong Kong Print Awards 2014 The Best Illustration (Published) Award, the 3rd Second Greater China Illustration Award, HK ‘ArTram Shelters’ Project, Hong Kong Tramways and POAD 2013 First Prize, Map Drawing Competition, Spring Workshop, HK 2011 The Best Illustration (Unpublished) Award, the 2nd Second Greater China Illustration Award, HK 2006 The Best Design Award, Design My Home Be Good Workshop, HK 2004 Third Prize, 2004 International Year of Rice Art and Design Competition, HK
Collections Hang Seng Bank P&G Hong Kong & Guangzhou Soho House Hong Kong Private Collections |