“I try to capture the beauty in the mundane and emphasise it, to remind people of all that is good. It is my hope that viewers will feel that wonder and joy and see the ordinary with fresh eyes.”
Jillian Cheong is a Singaporean artist who strongly believes that art should inspire hope and celebrate beauty. A turning point in her art practice was when she came down with Long Covid in 2022, with crippling fatigue, giddy spells and brain fog. This left her unable to fulfill her roles as wife, mother, daughter, and artist, and caused her to re-evaluate her way of measuring success, and to grapple with the concepts of identity, worth and value.
Jillian Cheong is a Singaporean artist who strongly believes that art should inspire hope and celebrate beauty. A turning point in her art practice was when she came down with Long Covid in 2022, with crippling fatigue, giddy spells and brain fog. This left her unable to fulfill her roles as wife, mother, daughter, and artist, and caused her to re-evaluate her way of measuring success, and to grapple with the concepts of identity, worth and value. Through this journey, she has learned to celebrate each moment and to value each individual for who they are and not what they do. These themes carry strongly in her artworks. Nature is often her source of inspiration, in both imagery and metaphor.
Jillian’s artworks are characterized by evocative use of colour and light. She particularly enjoys emphasizing the subtle details of colour in each subject, to bring out its unique character. Working primarily in acrylic, her work has also seen the use of fabric collage to explore texture, dimensionality, and heritage. She limits her choice of fabric to what is left over from sewing discards, finding joy and meaning in repurposing what was left behind to create something new.
An alumna of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and a member of the Society of Singapore Chinese Artists, she actively participates in Singapore’s art community and mental health causes. Her artworks are published in “Site.Ma”, a book that explores Singapore through the eyes of mother artists.
You can view Jillian’s works on Instagram at @jilliancheongart. If you are interested in any artworks or commission, Jillian can be reached at jilliancheongart@gmail.com or her website https://www.jilliancheong.com/.
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2026
Jan – Mar: Group Exhibition, Spring unfolding, Sound of Art, Millenia Walk, Singapore
2025
Dec-Jan: Group Exhibition, The Space Between, Sound of Art, Millenia Walk, Singapore
Nov: Affordable Art Fair, Tembusu Art Gallery, F1 Pit Building, Singapore
Oct - Feb: Group Exhibition, Artful Celebrations, Canvas Connections, German Centre, Singapore
Oct – Dec: Group Exhibition, Skyscapes in motion, BeOne Gallery, Qoltured by FortyTwo, Raffles City, Singapore
Oct: Group Exhibition, Canvas Connections, Artful Expressions, Canvas Connections, Tembusu Art Gallery, Singapore
May-Oct: Group Exhibition, Artful Connections, Canvas Connections, German Center, Singapore
May-July: Solo Exhibition, Beauty in the mundane, Coze+ café, Singapore
2024December: Group Exhibition, DrawEtc Year End Exhibition 2nd Edition, organized by DrawEtc, DrawEtc, Singapore
Nov: Group Exhibition, Vibrancy of Nanyang, Society of Chinese Artists, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore
September: Group Exhibition, Singapore Tales, The Art House, Singapore
August: Group Exhibition, Together as one united people – artist showcase for national day 2024, LivingwithArt Singapore, Singapore
Oct-Nov: Group Exhibition, Tales of Lion City, organized by the Art Appreciation Club, Canopy @ Esplanade, Singapore
Aug-Sept: Group Exhibition, Art for Celebration, organized by the Art Appreciation Club, Canopy @ Esplanade, Singapore
June- July: Group Exhibition, Art at the Village, organized by the Art Appreciation Club, Canopy @ Changi, Singapore
May: Group Exhibition, Mothers’ Day Art Exhibition 2024 – The Unseen of Motherhood, organized by Mama on Palette, South Beach Tower, Singapore
January: Group Exhibition, Making waves 2024, organized by Home with Art in conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2024, Visual arts centre, Singapore
2023Group Exhibition, DrawEtc year-end exhibition 1 st Edition, organised by DrawEtc, DrawEtc, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Invisible to Visible, organised by Art Appreciation club, The Art House, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Strictly Singapore, organised by Singapore Sketchers, Selegie Arts Centre, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Superwoman, organised by Sound of Art, Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
Group Exhibition, An Ode to the Lion City II, co-organised by Far East Hospitality and Sound of Art, Hotel Rendezvous Bras Basah, Singapore
Group Exhibition, An Ode to the Lion City, co-organised by Far East Hospitality and Sound of Art, Hotel Rendezvous Orchard, Singapore
2022Group Exhibition, The art of Christmas, Sound of Art in I12Katong mall, Singapore
Group Exhibition, ArtWord Project Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Dhoby Ghaut Green, Singapore
2021
Charity art auction co-organized by Hagar institute and Sound of Art Gallery, Home, Soul Food, Enabling Village, Singapore
Group Exhibition, Celebrating 56 Years of Singapore, LivingwithArt Singapore, Singapore
Two-person Exhibition, Beauty in Creation, City Gate Mall, Singapore
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Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Certificate in Western Abstract Painting (Basic)
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Certificate in Western Abstract Painting (Intermediate)
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Certificate in Western Abstract Painting (Advanced) in progress
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Alice Yu Yuebao (2024) Site.ma – Singapore in the Eyes of Mother Artists (M, Candrasaputra &
A R, Flynn, Ed. Copyright © 2024 Mama on Palette.
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Society of Chinese Artists
Canvas Connections, Women’s Art Collective, Singapore
Tranquility 9 50cm round Acrylic and fabric collage on wood
Hidden 60cm round Acrylic and fabric collage on canvas
Hidden Stream 51 × 41cm Acrylic and fabric collage on canvas
Look Up 101 × 76cm Acrylic and fabric collage on canvas
Tranquility 5 122 × 91cm Acrylic and fabric collage on canvas