Ms Wei Leng Tay is a Lecturer of Art Practice at Yale-NUS College where she teaches art practice modules covering photography, media, materiality, and historical immersion in the Singapore art scene.
Ms Tay has presented solo exhibitions including those with University of Sydney Verge Gallery (Abridge), Australia, National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum (Crossings and Discordant Symmetries), Singapore, and Chulalongkorn Art Center (Convergence), Thailand. She has also exhibited with institutions and festivals such as the National Gallery Singapore, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, ARTER Space for Art, Turkey, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Indonesia, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong, the Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea, and Noorderlicht Photo Festival, the Netherlands. Her work has been supported through residencies including with Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA), Singapore, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Centro de Creación Contemporanea de Andalucía (C3A), Spain, and Australian National University School of Art. She was recently a finalist for the Robert Gardner Fellowship for Photography at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University (2022), a winner of the Wyng Foundation WMA Prize (2016), a Poynter Fellow with Yale School of Art (2015), and a recipient of the National Arts Council (NAC) Singapore Arts Creation Fund (2009). Her works are in institutional and private collections, including those of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Australia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, USA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, and Singapore Art Museum. Her projects have been the subject of articles in peer-reviewed journals including Southeast of Now (NUS Press), Trans Asia Photography (TAP) Review (U. of Michigan Press), and art publications ArtAsiaPacific and OSMOS.
Ms Tay holds an MFA (Photography) from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, and a BSc (Biology) from McGill University. Her practice is also informed by her experience in journalism spanning over two decades as a photographer and photo editor in the Asia Pacific region. Ms Tay was Deputy Picture Editor at TIME Magazine’s Asia Edition based in Hong Kong, and a Photo Editor with Bloomberg News Asia Pacific in Hong Kong and Singapore.
