johanna ng lives and works on unceded Dharug land (Sydney). Across photography, moving image, installation, and performance, she seeks to uncover the autonomous life of images. Aided by participatory processes, Ng considers how images percolate through individual and collective consciousness to emerge as embodied actions, cultural mimicry, and performances of self.  Her practice experiments with imaging technologies to test their limits of image reproduction and truth-telling, while implementing strategies of trickery and refusal to activate the oppositional gaze. 

Ng holds a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School where she received the Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement and a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was the recipient of the Burwood Art Prize in 2023. Her first solo exhibition was shown at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art as part of their 2024 4A LAB Emerging Artists Exhibition program. In 2025, she received the Ian Potter Cultural Trust’s Emerging Artists Grant to undertake a residency at the Koganecho Artist-in-Residence Program, Japan.