Yeo Tze Yang (b. 1994, Singapore) is a painter of everyday life. His paintings often depict the unnoticed and bypassed places and objects of his immediate surroundings. A self taught painter, his technique is raw and immediate. Avoiding contemporary conceptual approaches to art, he instead reverts to a more direct and emotive artistic direction. He believes in the unity of life and art, and envisions his works to speak for themselves to viewers of any background. The result of such a process is an accumulation of images, thoughts, emotions, stories and memories, that in turn become allegories of the artist’s life.
Tze Yang was awarded the UOB Painting of the Year Silver Prize in 2016. He was part of the Art Elective Program from secondary school to junior college for six years. Ever since leaving National Junior College in 2012, he has continued to paint, and has exhibited widely in venues such as Shophouse 5, Goodman Arts Centre, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Apart Fair and the Affordable Art Fair in Singapore. He has been recognised as one of “15 Singaporeans Aged 25 And Under To Watch In 2015” by mustsharenews.com. He lives and works in Singapore. His works are part of private collections in Singapore, Australia, the UK and the USA. His first solo exhibition, A Place Behind My Eyes, was held at ION Art by Utterly Art. He pursued his bachelor’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Education
- 2015-2019 | National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences (Major in Southeast Asia Studies)
- 2011-2012 | National Junior College, Art Elective Programme
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2019 | A Lack of Significance, iPreciation, Singapore
- 2015 | A Place Behind My Eyes, Utterly Art @ ION Art Gallery, Singapore
- 2014 | Six Recent Paintings, Cups N Canvas, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs
- 2018 | Cheap Spirits, George Wong and Yeo Tze Yang, OUR Artprojects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2017 | Undertone, iPreciation, Singapore
- 2017 | Evening, OUR ArtProjects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2017 | UOB Art Space @ Art Stage, Singapore
- 2016 | “That’s All There Is” PG Lee & Yeo Tze Yang, That Spare Room, Singapore
- 2016 | 140th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Victoria School, Singapore
- 2016 | UNTAPPED EMERGING, Visual Art Development Association, Singapore
- 2015 | Affordable Art Fair (November), Utterly Art LLP, Singapore
- 2015 | Urban Hysteria – White Noise, Flaneur Gallery, Singapore
- 2015 | Art Apart Fair with Utterly Art, Singapore
- 2014 | Affordable Art Fair (November), Utterly Art LLP & Flaneur Gallery, Singapore
- 2014 | Affordable Art Fair (May), Utterly Art LLP, Singapore
- 2013 | Chungking Express, Kult Gallery, Singapore
- 2013 | SPECTRUM, ICA Gallery 1 & 2, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2013 | Young & Unknown, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore
- 2013 | *SCAPE Show It! Arts Festival, *SCAPE Shopping Mall, Singapore
- 2012 | Four² , NJC Art Graduation Show, NJC Gallery, Singapore
Awards
- 2016 | UOB Painting of the Year 2016 (Established Category – Silver Award), Singapore
- 2014 | Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize, Asia Pacific
For the full list of exhibitions, art fairs and awards, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com
Images of Artworks