Ian Woo

Ian Woo is an artist working in the language of abstraction. Influenced by forms of modernism, perceptual abstraction and the sound structures of music improvisation, his work is characterised by a sense of gravitational and representational change. He often uses the term ‘picture making’ when describing his position and approach, maintaining the discipline and evolvement of painting as a vehicle for pictorial reflectivity.
Woo’s first solo exhibition Mental Images was held at the LASALLE Gallery in Singapore in 2000.

Recent solo exhibitions include Joy of a preverbal dispenser at FOST Gallery, Singapore (2020),
Falling Off Plastic Chairs at Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore (2015),
The Difference. Between Your Mountain and My Couch at 8/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japan (2014)
and Ian Woo:
A Review 1995 – 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2011),
Selected recent group exhibitions include Strange Forms of Life at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2020),
Siapa Nama Kamu at National Gallery Singapore (2015), After Utopia, at Singapore Art Museum (2015),
The Origin of Beauty: Dramatic Nostalgia at Busan Museum of Art, Korea (2014)
and
Market Forces – Erasure: From Conceptualism To Abstraction at Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
(2014).

His works are in the collection of major institutions such as ABN AMRO, Singapore ArtMuseum, The Istana Singapore, The National Gallery Singapore, Suzhou Center, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA. Woo’s paintings have been featured in the publication Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes, published by Phaidon in 2013.

Since 2016, he has been part of the painting collaborative Impermanent DurationsOn Painting and Time.
As a musician, Woo is a part of the music ensemble Qianpima and
has composed, performed and recorded with them from 2015 to 2021.
Woo lives and works in Singapore and is represented by FOST Gallery, Singapore.

Website: ianwoo.net / fostgallery.com