Resume

Yeo Tze Yang (b. 1994, Singapore)

 

EDUCATION

• National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences (Major in Southeast Asia Studies) 2015-2019

• National Junior College, Art Elective Programme, 2011-2012

 

AWARDS

• UOB Painting of the Year 2016 (Established Category - Silver Award)

• Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize 2014

 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2019

• International Artist Residency, HOM Art Trans, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

2022

• We Are NUS: The People and Everyday Life of a University, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

• TRUTH BE TOLD: Recent thotz abt painting ppl, FOST Gallery, Singapore

2021

• Evening, Once More, SEED The Art Space @ The Substation, Singapore

2019

• A Lack of Significance, iPreciation, Singapore

2017

• Evening, OUR Artprojects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2015

• A Place Behind My Eyes, Utterly Art @ ION Art Gallery, Singapore

2014

• Six Recent Paintings, Cups N Canvas, Singapore

 

SELECTED DUO/GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

2023

• Art Basel Hong Kong, FOST Gallery, Hong Kong

• Art SG, FOST Gallery, Singapore

2022

• Art Jakarta, FOST Gallery, Jakarta (Indonesia)

2021

• 《不/存在》 Absent But Present, Luo Qing and Yeo Tze Yang, Art Seasons, Singapore

• UNTAPPED 2021 - Alumni Exhibition, Visual Arts Development Association, Singapore

2020

• Living in Still, iPreciation, Singapore

• To Sea, Art Agenda S.E.A, Singapore

• Art Is Non-Essential, Art Seasons, Singapore

• How To Desire Differently, Virtual Showcase and Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA, Singapore

• Small Works, The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019

• Self-Portrait as Mirror/Mirror as Self-Portrait, Art Informal, Manila, The Philippines

2018

• Cheap Spirits, George Wong and Yeo Tze Yang, OUR Artprojects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2017

• Undertone, iPreciation, Singapore

• UOB Art Space @ Art Stage, Singapore​

2016

• "That's All There Is" PG Lee & Yeo Tze Yang, That Spare Room, Singapore

• 140th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Victoria School, Singapore

• UNTAPPED EMERGING, Visual Art Development Association, Singapore

2015

• Affordable Art Fair (November), Utterly Art LLP,  Singapore

• Urban Hysteria - White Noise, Flaneur Gallery, Singapore

• Art Apart Fair with Utterly Art, Singapore

2014

• Affordable Art Fair (November), Utterly Art LLP & Flaneur Gallery,  Singapore

• Affordable Art Fair (May), Utterly Art LLP,  Singapore

2013

• Chungking Express, Kult Gallery, Singapore

• SPECTRUM, ICA Gallery 1 & 2, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

• Young & Unknown, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore

• *SCAPE Show It! Arts Festival, *SCAPE Shopping Mall, Singapore    

 

COLLECTIONS

• UOB Art Collection

• National University of Singapore Collection

• Works held in private collections in:

  • Singapore

  • Malaysia

  • Thailand

  • The Philippines

  • Australia

  • Denmark

  • Italy

  • The United States of America

  • The United Kingdom

 

MEDIA

• 视觉艺术 杨子扬：简单语言表达生活, 联合早报 (Lianhe Zaobao), 6 January 2020

• Wong Kim Hoh: Art that speaks to the heart. The Straits Times, 6 October 2019

• I am a 25-year-old NUS graduate, and this is why I became an artist (column), TODAY Online, 4 October 2019

• 全职画家杨子扬 父母共谋 艺途出彩, 联合早报 (Lianhe Zaobao),13 August 2019

• 杨子扬第三次油画个展 捕捉日常不起眼的重要，联合早报 (Lianhe Zaobao), 8 August 2019

• Sara Lau: Interview with Yeo Tze Yang: Painting as Reaction and Rebellion, Art & Market, 29 July 2019

• Award-winning artist with a heart for SE Asia, NUS News, 12 July 2019

• Everyday reality showcased in Our ArtProjects exhibit ‘Cheap Spirits’, 25 May 2018

• The Art in the Real: Singaporean Artist Yeo Tze Yang and the Lomo'Instant, 3 October 2017

• Just Call Me Coldplay, Plural ArtMag, 14 October 2017

• See this side of night and its different faces, 28 July 2017

• Representative for UOB KidSmart Programme, 10 November 2016

• Boon’s Cafe Exhibition Review: That’s All There Is by PG Lee and Yeo Tze Yang, 30 July 2016

• That’s All There Is: Oil Painter Yeo Tze Yang Talks Art, Juggling University And Collab With PG Lee, 24 July 2016

• Anastasia Ong, UNTAPPED EMERGING: IN THE STUDIO WITH YEO TZE YANG, 4 July 2016

• Interview with Yeo Tze Yang, Painter, Ubersnap Magazine, 20 Jan 2016

• YourSingapore (Malaysia), #SG50People Yeo Tze Yang, 10 Oct 2015

• Christoper Sim: Gossip over over-greasy bacon (thoughts on A Place Behind My Eyes), 9 Aug 2015

• 15 Singaporeans Aged 25 And Under To Watch In 2015, mustsharenews.com

• Michele Adriaens: “Spotted! Yeo Tze Yang!”, Culture Push, 22 Jan 2014

• Ang Hui Min: “Support My Dreams, Netizens”, Comma ZaoBao Newspaper, 17 April 2013

 

TALKS

• State of Our Arts: The Reality of the Art Scene in Singapore, Shine Now 2019, Scape, Singapore, 18 December 2019

• “A Lack of Significance” solo exhibition – Artist Dialogue with curator Zulfadhli Hilmi @ iPreciation, Singapore, 17 August 2019

• “An Approach to Painting” – Artist Talk and Painting Demonstration @ NTU ADM, Singapore, 25 January 2018

• “Evening” solo exhibition – Artist Talk @ OUR ArtProjects, Kuala Lumpur, 15 July 2017

• That’s All There Is Artists’ Talk with PG Lee, 7 August 2016

• A Place Behind My Eyes (Solo Show): Artist Talk 8 August 2015 2.30pm

• Ngee Ann Secondary School: Artist Talk

• National Junior College: Artist Talk

• National Junior College: Poetry Evening Guest Speaker, 13 Feb 2015

• 1st Youth Horizons Conference (Arts), 25 Jan 2014