No Island is an Island
Curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong
March 5 – May 5, 2026
Opening on Thursday, March 5, 5 – 7 pm
133 – 135, Tanglin Rd, Singapore 247926
LOY Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present ‘No island is an island’, a new exhibition curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong, featuring island-originating or -residing artists, each of whose manifests as cultural fragments in a field of disparate voices. These voices emanate from strikingly different artworks by Singapore-born, Columbus (Ohio)–based artist Ivan David Ng, China-born, Hong Kong– based painter Liu Bin, and Singapore-born, Brooklyn-based mixed-media painter Nature Shankar.
The show asserts that no island is ever truly an “island” in the isolated, insular sense. Every work (“island”) influences how energy moves through space, how light bounces off a surface, how viewers “read” the next work, what materials can mean, and the conversations that emerge. The pieces coyly provoke alternative ways of relating to the world and one another, while helping us identify with a shared grouping (like islands in an archipelago that might share a common language).
No Island is an Island invites viewers to question seemingly fixed structures, categories, and binaries as fabricated footholds that have been normalized and accepted as “given,” challenging the gallery’s visitors to question the assumed values that organize their lives, and to push back on the insidious, moralizing structures of the “normal,” “sensible,” and “beautiful.”
Even the ways we are different, you and I, are never fixed, and instead ebb with time.
For more information, please contact the sales team jyemiin@loygallery.com
For press images and information, please contact marketing@loygallery.com
Instagram: @loyartgallery
Curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong
March 5 – May 5, 2026
Opening on Thursday, March 5, 5 – 7 pm
133 – 135, Tanglin Rd, Singapore 247926
LOY Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present ‘No island is an island’, a new exhibition curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong, featuring island-originating or -residing artists, each of whose manifests as cultural fragments in a field of disparate voices. These voices emanate from strikingly different artworks by Singapore-born, Columbus (Ohio)–based artist Ivan David Ng, China-born, Hong Kong– based painter Liu Bin, and Singapore-born, Brooklyn-based mixed-media painter Nature Shankar.
The show asserts that no island is ever truly an “island” in the isolated, insular sense. Every work (“island”) influences how energy moves through space, how light bounces off a surface, how viewers “read” the next work, what materials can mean, and the conversations that emerge. The pieces coyly provoke alternative ways of relating to the world and one another, while helping us identify with a shared grouping (like islands in an archipelago that might share a common language).
No Island is an Island invites viewers to question seemingly fixed structures, categories, and binaries as fabricated footholds that have been normalized and accepted as “given,” challenging the gallery’s visitors to question the assumed values that organize their lives, and to push back on the insidious, moralizing structures of the “normal,” “sensible,” and “beautiful.”
Even the ways we are different, you and I, are never fixed, and instead ebb with time.
For more information, please contact the sales team jyemiin@loygallery.com
For press images and information, please contact marketing@loygallery.com
Instagram: @loyartgallery