Alex Ong

Alex Ong Boon Hau (; born 1951) is a Malaysian painter. Most of his paintings have naturalistic elements, and often depict plants from the wild, such as the yarrow. in Muar, Johor, Malaysia, Ong attended the Kuala Lumpur College of Art and graduated in 1977. Since then, he has held at least seven solo exhibitions, the first of which being in 1994. His third solo exhibition, Seasons 2, which was held in 2002, as a follow-up to 1999's Seasons, reportedly took three years to complete. A member of the Singapore Watercolour Society, he visits New Zealand at least once every year to seek inspiration for his paintings.