Yeo Tze Yang is a Singaporean visual artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, working primarily in painting. His practice is autobiographical, rooted in his relationship with the places, people, and everyday scenes that shape his lived experience.
Self-taught, Yeo balances instinct with critical awareness. His background in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore informs his sensitivity to the social, historical and political dimensions of images, while retaining an openness to their immediacy.
While grounded in painting, his work is also self-reflexive. He extends into sculpture, writing, digital media and performance to question and reconsider the medium; its limits, assumptions, and what it means to live as a painter.
Yeo received the Silver Award at the 2016 UOB Painting of the Year competition. In 2022, he was described by visual arts journalist Helmi Yusof as “the fastest-rising figurative artist of his generation” in Singapore. His works are held in institutional and private collections internationally.