| Alex Ong Boon Hau | |
| Birth Place: | Muar, Johor, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| Nationality: | Malaysian |
Alex Ong Boon Hau (; born 1951) is a Malaysian painter.[1] Most of his paintings have naturalistic elements, and often depict plants from the wild,[2] such as the yarrow.
Born 1951[3] in Muar, Johor, Malaysia,[4] Ong attended the Kuala Lumpur College of Art and graduated in 1977.[5] Since then, he has held at least seven solo exhibitions, the first of which being in 1994.[5] Ong has received two awards from the Malaysian Watercolour Society, one in 1987 and another in 1990, in recognition of his watercolour rock paintings.[4] Ong's works have been cited as being able to "conjure up a romantic expression of life and love", such as the paintings in his 2008 exhibition titled Romance.[6] 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.[7] A member of the Singapore Watercolour Society,[8] he visits New Zealand at least once every year to seek inspiration for his paintings.[4]