Artist Biography
Ng Jia Xi is a multidisciplinary Singaporean artist pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art Degree at NAFA. She is a Scholarship Award recipient for the academic year 2024/2025 and 2023/2024, and a student in the NAFA Talent Development Programme. She has a former Diploma in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics from Singapore Polytechnic and is an active dancer and performance artist. Through her artistic endeavours, she has performed at Studio Plesungan in Surakarta Indonesia for an artist residency in 2024, as well as Singapore Art Week's Performative Practices Lab with NAFA in 2025. She has also exhibited installation works at Photography Society Singapore in an exhibition titled ‘Sonder’, and ‘Stories of Care’ at Assisi Hospice in 2023. In addition, she has choreographed for events such Waves23 at Singapore’s Esplanade theatre in 2018, and Converge Recital at University Cultural Centre in 2023.
Artist Statement
Jia Xi's practice is grounded in universal human experiences, responding to the rhythm of life through the intangible qualities of time-based art. Using her body as a vessel, she captures and recalls the fleeting energy of memory, exploring sensorial interactions between the body and its surroundings. Her work spans across performance art, videography, dance, and installations, creating immersive experiences that engage the viewer. At present, her practice takes on a more contemplative approach, drawing extensively from core Buddhist teachings and philosophies. Jia Xi is particularly interested in how these principles can provide clarity and ease in navigating the complexities of the human condition.
Education
2022 - Current
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
2015 - 2018
Diploma in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics Singapore Polytechnic
2014 - 2015
Polytechnic Foundation Programme
Course of Science and Technology
Singapore Polytechnic
Awards
2024
Recipient of the NAFA Scholarship for the academic year of 2024 - 2025
2023
Recipient of the NAFA Scholarship for the academic year of 2023 - 2024
2023
Recipient of NAFA Talent Development Programme
Exhibitions
Solo
2024
Artist Residency & Performance / Studio Plesungan
A durational performance titled ‘I've Come To Rest My Heart’, a response to religion centered around movement-based approaches on the relationship of the performer to object. The work focuses on movement and sand as a medium to translate stories.
Group
2025
FRAGMENTS / Hopsfield Art Gallery
A group exhibition consisting of four independent artists
- Ng Jia Xi, Agastya Sharma, Divya Dhashini and Aryton Ho Rui Kai. A body of work by Ng Jia Xi was presented at the gallery. These include live performance art titled ‘I’ve Come to Rest My Heart’, ‘A-Z’ (zine) and ‘More Than Just Wind: Impressions’ (Print).
2025
Downsizing Menjadi / Lim Hak Tai Gallery
A series of 9 acrylic prints on paper titled ‘More Than Just Wind: Impressions’. This work is derived from a performance titled ‘More Than Just Wind’ that engages in the practice of stacking stones.
2025
Performative Practices Lab / Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Group exhibition for Singapore Art Week (SAW) showcasing individual performance artists. Durational performance piece titled ‘I’ve Come to Rest My Heart’ was featured during this event. The work focuses on movement and sand as a medium to translate stories.
2024
NAFA x UAL Exhibition / University of Arts London
A performance installation titled ‘Slip’ that features live performance with objects and a prerecorded dance shared through projections. The installation consists of three pieces of tall white fabric in a staggered position, and a wooden chair in the middle of the three.
2024
Finding Peace / University of Arts London
A collaborative interactive installation held in Chelsea campus that invites audiences to engage with paint and crayons on the walls, or on objects of comfort that were presented in the installation.
2023
Stories of Care / Assisi Hospice
A time-based sculpture and publication work titled ‘I just left the candle there’ by the ‘HH’ Collective. In collaboration with Assisi Hospice care worker Yvonne Gabrielle Chen, the work is a 3-part wax sculpture executed through the casting of wax into water, the melting of wax and publications of captured images consisting of the time-based processes of the work.
2023
Subliminal Paradigms / Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
An immersive installation titled 'Fortune Smiles Upon You' by the 'We Surrender!' collective, consisting of found objects and make-believe fortune readings.
2023
NTDP Showcase / Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
A metal Sublimation print titled 'WAKE II' as part of a series from the artwork ‘Wake’, showcasing multiple warped still images taken from a motion graphic sequence.
2023
Sonder / Photographic Society Singapore
An immersive installation titled ‘WAKE’, showcasing a motion graphic sequence of warped moving images derived from analogue film photography, projected onto a large open space and a mirror.
2022
Bodies / Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Installation of 2D painting and a 4D video and performative work with paint titled 'Identity'.