Marissa Ng is a Malaysian-born artist currently based in Singapore. Raised in Singapore and having lived in the United Kingdom for six years, her practice is shaped by cross-cultural experience and travel across Europe. Trained and working professionally as an architectural designer, her spatial sensitivity and attention to built environments strongly inform her work as an oil painter.

Marissa’s paintings explore urban spaces and transitional moments, drawing attention to quiet structures, interior fragments, and architectural details that carry traces of memory, atmosphere, and human presence. Rather than documenting specific places, her work reconstructs the emotional character of a location, inviting viewers to inhabit a sense of place through light, rhythm, and spatial sensitivity.

Having lived across Eastern and Western contexts, Marissa’s practice is shaped by an ongoing interest in how built environments reveal subtle cultural distinctions while also sharing universal visual rhythms. She is particularly drawn to the ways cities communicate through recurring forms; thresholds, façades, windows, and street edges; where architecture becomes both a marker of place and a vessel for lived experience.

This relationship between place, memory, and cross-cultural atmosphere is central to Streets, in Passing, an evolving body of work drawn from fleeting encounters with cities and transitional spaces observed through travel and everyday movement. Through this series, she examines how architectural details can hold emotional resonance across different contexts, where familiar and unfamiliar places begin to share a common visual language.