Josef Ng

Josef Ng Sing Chor is a Singaporean gallerist and former performance artist. He is known for his 1994 public performance Brother Cane, at the end of which he partially exposed his buttocks and snipped his pubic hair. Ng called his hair-snipping a "symbolic gesture for an artistic purpose" He was handed a lifetime public performance ban by the National Arts Council and fined for violating the Penal Code. Ng later became a curator at various art galleries. He was a naval sergeant in the Singapore Armed Forces, and claimed that his hair snipping was a "Symbolic Gesture for an Artistic purpose" and not intended to be offensive or shock people or be offensive to anyone. He has since retired from the army and now works as a curator for art galleries in Singapore. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children, and has a daughter and son-in-law who live in Hong Kong. He also has a son, Vincent Leow, who is an artist and has worked for the Singapore Art Gallery since 2007. He currently lives in Hongkong with his family.