Johanna Ng is an artist who lives and works on unceded Dharug land (Sydney), Australia. Across photography, moving image, installation, and performance, she seeks to uncover the autonomous life of images. Aided by interviews, transcription, and re-enactment, Ng considers how mass image production and consumption percolate through individual and collective consciousness to emerge as embodied actions, cultural mimicry, and performances of self. 

Her practice relies on strategies of trickery and refusal to activate the oppositional gaze. In visual terms, she experiments with photographic processes and cinematic language to borrow popular visual cultures that infiltrate the collective imagination and ways of seeing. During this scrutiny of image reproduction and circulation, she contemplates the symbiotic transformations between image and audience. 

Ng holds a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) at the National Art School where she received the Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Other significant awards include winning the 2023 Burwood Art Prize. Her writing has been commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in artist-run spaces across Sydney and Melbourne.