Ong Puay Khim

Ong Puay Khim is an independent curator based in Singapore. Until recently, she was Deputy Director of Curatorial Programmes at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore), a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. At the Centre, she has co-curated with Founding Director Ute Meta Bauer, solo exhibitions of internationally acclaimed artists Tarek Atoui, Amar Kanwar, Ulrike Ottinger, and Yang Fudong, as well as research exhibitions and projects including Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material (2018); Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History (2017); Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice (2016); and the pilot edition of NTU CCA Ideas Fest, CITIES FOR PEOPLE (2017), amongst others. She is also the co-editor of the Centre’s forthcoming publication The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) and was the co-curator of Culture City. Culture Scape., a public art project at Mapletree Business City II, Singapore. Previously, Ong held curatorial positions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE and Osage Gallery, Hong Kong. Selected independent curatorial projects include Re|Collecting Asia (2017); Andy Warhol: Social Circus (2016); the Southeast Asia Platform at Art Stage Singapore (2015); Jane Lee: 100 Faces (Sundaram Tagore Gallery , Singapore, 2014); and Landscape Memories (Louis Vuitton Espace, Singapore, 2013). A student of philosophy, her current research and curatorial interest is in exploring artistic practices and productions as knowledges of the phenomenal world, particularly in relation to the history of ideas in Southeast Asia.