Ivan David Ng · Sergio Suárez

Sergio Suárez (b. 1995, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based visual artist and printmaker. His work explores how materiality and semiotics influence notions of the body, metaphysics, and diverse cosmologies. He graduated in 2021 from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking.

His work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally at venues such as Patel Brown (Montreal, Canada), Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY), Pale Fire Projects (Vancouver, Canada), KDR Gallery (Miami, FL), Fundación Casa Wabi Sabino (Mexico City, Mexico), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Hawkins HQ (Atlanta, GA), Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Consulate General of Mexico (Atlanta, GA), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London, UK), Haugesund International Relief Festival (Haugesund, Norway), OPED Space (Tokyo, Japan), and the Ionian Arts Center (Kefalonia, Greece), where he was an artist-in-residence in 2017 and 2018.

Suárez has also participated in artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Bemis Center Residency (Omaha, NE), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Penland Residency (Penland, NC), and Bed-Stuy Art Residency (Brooklyn, NY), among others.

His work has been reviewed by the Financial Times, Artillery, Burnaway, and ART PAPERS, and was featured in Issue #166 of New American Paintings. Additionally, his work is part of the public collections at the Zuckerman Museum (Kennesaw, GA) and MOCA GA (Atlanta, GA). He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA, with his two cats. He is represented in Georgia by Johnson Lowe Gallery.

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Ivan David Ng is an artist from Singapore, presently based in the US. His practice investigates what it means to exist as human wedged between land and sky, drawing speculatively from the contested origins of the Hakka, also known as the "guest people". He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded the Gold Award in the UOB Painting of the Year in 2020, one of the most recognized art accolades in Southeast Asia. He received his MFA in Drawing and Painting from The Ohio State University with research at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been published in New American Paintings and Art & Market and he has also worked on projects with Louis Vuitton, Uber Technologies Inc and Singapore Land Group.

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