Associate Artists / Film / Sherman Ong
Sherman works with the video, film and photography media. His current preoccupation is to explore the nature of images and the limits of narrative structure.
His film works, which straddle the genre of fiction, documentary and dance, have been exhibited in Europe, US, Brazil and Asia. His films have won awards in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Indonesia and Malaysia. He is an alumnus of the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus 2003 and has premiered works at Rotterdam International Film Festival, Int'l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, International Electronic Art Festival VideoBrasil and the Yokohama Art Triennial, Japan. He also served as a jury member at the La Cittadella del Corto International Short Film Festival 2004, Italy and as a mentor for the National Museum Guerilla Filmmaking Workshop and Panasonic/Objectifs Digital Filmmaking Fiesta.
His photographs are in a travelling group exhibition to Singapore, Melbourne, Jakarta, Hanoi, Stuttgart and Berlin under the Goethe Institut ArtconneXions Artist Residency and in Another Asia, 13th International Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Netherlands.
Besides conducting workshops, he also works as a photographer, and director for commercial and art-related projects. Please see shermanong.com for more information.
