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「 Bone Flower 」Yuki Nara ()opening 14th May, 5 pmLOY ² , 36 Armenian St, S179934__Yuki Nara is a contemporary artist who...
06/05/2026

「 Bone Flower 」

Yuki Nara ()

opening 14th May, 5 pm
LOY ² , 36 Armenian St, S179934

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Yuki Nara is a contemporary artist who boldly moves between tradition and innovation. His ceramic masterpiece Bone Flower is in the permanent collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and the Ueshima Museum Collection.

Discover the Bone Flower collection at There will be five sculptural vases inspired by ‘hybridization’— each piece explores the delicate balance between inside and outside, digital and analog.

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LOY Gallery is delighted to congratulate Akai Chew ( ) on the acquisition of ‘Obituaries’ series by the curatorial team ...
02/05/2026

LOY Gallery is delighted to congratulate Akai Chew ( ) on the acquisition of ‘Obituaries’ series by the curatorial team from the National Museum of Singapore ()

‘Obituaries’ series is a comprehensive overview featuring a batch of buildings from the post-independence era that have reached the end of their economic viability–thus reflecting a second wave of change and erasure but also the passage of time; the series represents a catalog of the contemporary histories of the mid 2010s, capturing buildings in an era of flux, of slow anonymity, collective amnesia and a continued desire for progress. These works build a strong identity where Akai activates and emphasizes preserving nation’s histories, buildings, collective culture, and looking into future’s wisdom.

We are proud to represent Akai Chew and grateful to the curators at the who serve in a custodial role. Their dedication to stewarding path-breaking artists and exhibitions is truly inspiring.

will continue offering a broad spectrum of artistic expression, encompassing introspective explorations of identity & thought-provoking social-cultural phenomena. has become an important new voice that we’re excited to amplify as we share his practice with our audiences in Singapore and beyond.

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PICTURED:  ¹ Photo taken at the Heritage Conservation Centre. ² - ³ Photo taken during the test print viewing at AVS Printing. ©️ LOY Gallery.

Japanese Ceramicist and architect Yuki Nara () unveils his internationally acclaimed “Bone Flower” series, combining cut...
23/04/2026

Japanese Ceramicist and architect Yuki Nara () unveils his internationally acclaimed “Bone Flower” series, combining cutting-edge technology with age-old ceramic traditions. Opens 14 May at LOY ² Contemporary Art Gallery located at 36 Armenian St. This special exhibition is proudly supported by Japan Creative Centre- Embassy of Japan in Singapore ( )

As the eldest son of Toshio Ohi Chozaemon XI, Nara bridging the 350-year heritage of his family’s Ohi- yaki kiln and reinterpreting traditional techniques for ceramics. Although he was born into a family that produces traditional hand-molded Raku ware, he is known for his coordinated and structural ceramic art that made use of his background in architecture. Nara’s practice traverses diverse realms where he explores the concept of boundaries– physical, conceptual, and cultural.

PICTURED:
¹ Installation view of “Frozen Flowers“, at “Collection Exhibition 1: VESSELS”, 2022, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Photo: KIOKU Keizo ©️ Yuki Nara
² Photo of three generations of the Ohi family. His grandfather, Ohi Chozaemon X, was declared a ‘Living National Treasure of Japan.’ ©️Yuki Nara
³ Photo of Yuki Nara with his father, working with clay. Born into a family with a rich and renowned heritage, Yuki Nara experienced the weight of expectations associated with the Ohi pottery legacy from an early age.
⁴ – ⁵ View of the Ohi Chozaemon Ware・Ohi Museum・Ohi Gallery. The museum and gallery were built adjacent to the family’s home, a classic samurai residence surrounding a 500-year-old red pine tree. The gallery was designed by renowned architect Kengo Kuma in 2014. Photo ©️ Yuki Nara
⁶ Photo ©️ Yuki Nara

Our current group show 𝘕𝘰 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, featuring works by Liu Bin, Ivan David Ng and Nature Shankar, is on view ...
08/04/2026

Our current group show 𝘕𝘰 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, featuring works by Liu Bin, Ivan David Ng and Nature Shankar, is on view until 5 May.

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Mushrooms grow on its own, yet is held within the same gentle light. They thrive in darkness, feeding quietly on soil and decaying wood before erupting into view– only to vanish again as quickly. “These mushrooms extend far beyond biology; they embodied stored energy, ecological intelligence, even a kind of spiritual messenger between life and death,” Liu Bin () shares.

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Artwork: Liu Bin, ‘The Blooming Canopy’, 2026, oil in canvas, ©️ LOY Contemporary Art Gallery

Coming Soon to —Yuki Nara ( ) born in Ishikawa in 1989, the eldest son of Toshio Ohi Chozaemon XI. The Bone Flower col...
27/03/2026

Coming Soon to —

Yuki Nara ( ) born in Ishikawa in 1989, the eldest son of Toshio Ohi Chozaemon XI. The Bone Flower collection by Yuki Nara includes ceramic vases with sinuous and detailed shapes, created by combining traditional Ohi techniques and architectural design technologies such as 3D CAD. The ceramic panels, resembling bones, intertwine in vibrant compositions, emanating a primal vitality where the “boundary” between inside and outside becomes increasingly blurred.

On View May 14 – Jul 17 , 2026

LOY Gallery ( )
36 Armenian Street, #01-06,
Singapore 179934

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IMG 1 ‘Bone Flower Jomon 03’26’, 2026, H350 W300 D300, Photo Courtesy of Yasuyuki Sugiura
IMG 2 Yuki Nara at his studio. Photo courtesy of Artist.
IMG 3 Installation View of “Vessel” of architecture and crafts’, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa. Photo Courtesy of the Artist.
IMG 4 Photo Courtesy of the Artist.

Coming 28 Mar, LOY Gallery will be piloting our “Relaxed Hour with TheDogtors®️,” a session designed to demystify the ga...
19/03/2026

Coming 28 Mar, LOY Gallery will be piloting our “Relaxed Hour with TheDogtors®️,” a session designed to demystify the gallery experience. During this “Relaxed Hour,” adjustments are made to the gallery setting to create a more inclusive, accessible, welcoming, and human experience of viewing and collecting art.

While the “Relaxed Hour” is designed with neurodivergent visitors and those with sensory processing differences in mind, it is meant for anyone looking for a stress-free gallery experience. Groups that benefit include pregnant women, nursing mothers, parents with young children, elderly folks, people with chronic pain, and introverts.

“Relaxed Hour with the TheDogtors®️ “
Date: 28 Mar, Sat
Time: 1 - 2 pm
Location: 133 - 135 Tanglin Rd, Tudor Court, S247926

Expectations are relaxed, so you can experience the exhibition on your own terms. Reserve your spot through DM . For more info, visit https://thedogtors.sg/ .sg

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GUIDELINES:

¹ Dog Handler teams from the Dogtors will be there to offer a calming presence for a more sensory-considerate gallery viewing experience.
² The Dogtors are professionally screened and assessed to be behaviorally and physically healthy for their work. 
³ To ensure the best experience, please do not bring your own dogs or other animals.
⁴ The gallery has seating available. 
⁵ Open to all, sign up through .

What are we preserving, what are we losing— and what ghosts are we creating for the future? -With a background in urban ...
14/03/2026

What are we preserving, what are we losing— and what ghosts are we creating for the future?

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With a background in urban planning, Akai Chew considers how rapid redevelopment risks erasing not just buildings, but the visions they once embodied. Drawing on thinkers like Jacques Derrida and Fredric Jameson, his work reflects on how cities are shaped by both past ambitions and future anxieties.

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PICTURE ⁴ & ⁶: Installation Views of ‘SG60: To Build a Swing’, Curated by , Chew presents ‘The City of the Future’, 2025, UV print on construction canvas, with metal eyelets . These works are rooted in his reflections on the Golden Mile Complex, built in 1974 as a bold architectural vision.

Now on view at , “No island is an island” is a group show of island- originating or -residing artists, each of whose app...
09/03/2026

Now on view at , “No island is an island” is a group show of island- originating or -residing artists, each of whose approach 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 Collectively, they reflect a discordant aesthetics in a fluid, co-dependent world.

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Curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong , 𝘕𝘰 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 celebrates divergence: 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴. The dominant narrative favors thinking about how similar we should be, no matter our race, creed, national origins, class, biology, or religion; this exhibition challenges such a narrative by emphasizing 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦.

Visit “No island is an island” at through May 5.

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Installation Images: ©️ Photography courtesy of LOY Contemporary Art Gallery, Singapore

In focus: Nature Shankar is a Singaporean mixed-media painter whose practice explores the body as a site of emotional me...
03/03/2026

In focus: Nature Shankar is a Singaporean mixed-media painter whose practice explores the body as a site of emotional memory—personal, generational, communal, and political. She works predominantly with techniques and materials such as paper pulp, fabric, embroidery, and collage to create her mixed media paintings. Her work is deeply informed by the embodied and emotional experience of womanhood. 

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‘No island is an Island’ Opening this March at , the featured artworks speak to the exhibition’s archipelagic framework: emphasizing relationality, cultural heritage, and contingency. Each piece is a portable fragment in a larger narrative—an island in an archipelago, where there is no fixed point. Curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong.

There’s only one week left to view ‘Mosaic SG’ exhibitions at  , closing next Tuesday, March 3! 💘🏔️
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Combined with the ...
25/02/2026

There’s only one week left to view ‘Mosaic SG’ exhibitions at  , closing next Tuesday, March 3! 💘🏔️

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Combined with the violent color juxtapositions, lends dynamism to the depicted scenes, works recalling the practice of storyboarding in narrative construction - constitutes for Bacchetti a stimulus towards the philosophical and sapiential entities.

Artworks:
•Frostfield Sniper, 2023
•Spleeny duellist, 2025
•First Date, 2024

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Bacchetti’s nature is by no means scenic or bucolic, but wild and unspoiled. The alarming quality of the colors begs the question of who is in danger: ‘‘𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒔?’

In Focus: Ivan David Ng is an artist from Singapore, presently based in the US. Working across painting, animation, and ...
20/02/2026

In Focus: Ivan David Ng is an artist from Singapore, presently based in the US. Working across painting, animation, and performance, he is interested in the provenance of things, secrets hiding in plain sight, and the act of making as a means of knowing.

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Ivan’s latest paintings explore the human condition of yearning through an abundance of colour and fragmented textures.

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Coming soon: ‘NO ISLAND IS AN ISLAND’ is an exhibition of works by island-originating or -residing artists. The featured pieces manifest as cultural fragments in a field of disparate voices. Curated by Dr. Rebecca Cheong. Opens at on March 5th.

| Artist Portrait Courtesy of Matthew Pevear

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