Le Journal Sherman Ong

With 2017 around the corner comes a barrage of gallery exhibitions, museum shows, and art fairs brimming with the latest artists. In preparation, ArtAndOnly’s curatorial team have uncovered the 10 most global artists to watch this coming year. The artists listed below hail from Pakistan to Paris, ...

After decades of travel and observation, Malaysian-born but Singaporean-based photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong has built a strong rhetoric on the theme of origin, migration and diaspora. His own experience of migration came fairly early, when as a teenager he was uprooted from his home in ...

About Sherman Ong’s three photographic series, HanoiHaiku, Monsoon and Spurious Landscapes, as well as the short film, Tickets, which first debuted at the Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009, as part of Ming Wong’s show where Singapore won a special mention. HanoiHaiku captures the ...

How did you come to make the Monsoon series? Sherman Ong: I was in Hanoi for my artist residency under the Goethe Institut Art Connexions project. I had already started on a visual haiku series, Hanoi Haiku, when this series came to me by chance during a hailstorm one afternoon in Hanoi. On that ...