Wei Leng Tay

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Photographer Wei Leng Tay was born in Singapore and has been living and working in Hong Kong for the last nine years. Wei Leng began her professional career making portraits for magazines such as Time and Fortune. She is interested in exploring how people live. Her photographs have been exhibited in the US, Japan, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010

To Be Chinese, NUS Museum, Baba House, SINGAPORE (solo)

Hong Kong Photography Series II, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, HONG KONG

Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2009, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, JAPAN

Grid Versus Chaos, Gallery VER, Bangkok THAILAND

2009

Photo MIAMI 2009, Charles Guice Contemporary, Miami, USA

Para/Site ArtMART 2009, Pacific Place Three, HONG KONG

The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, THE NETHERLANDS

Traces, Earl Lu Gallery, LaSalle College, SINGAPORE

Where do we go from here?, F/Stop 3rd International Photography Festival, Leipzig, GERMANY

Joy, Fotografia - Festival Internazionale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, ITALY

Where do we go from here?, Winds of Artist-in-residence, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, JAPAN

2008

Document, O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, CANADA

The Photo Review 2008, Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA

Desultory Landscapes, Ooi Botos Gallery, HONG KONG (Solo)

Volume XVII, New Works Gallery Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, USA

Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2007, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, JAPAN

2007

Singapore Art Exhibition 2007, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE

Descubrimientos Phe07, PhotoEspana 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, SPAIN

Projections of the Night of Photography, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, SPAIN

Group Exhibition, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong

Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2006, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, JAPAN

PROJECTS/CLIENTS

Asian Wall Street Journal, Asiaweek, Businessweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, Facts, Forbes,

Forbes Japan, Fortune, Fortune China, Fortune Small Business, HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Time Magazine

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2009

Singapore Internationale Grant, SINGAPORE

Arts Creation Fund, National Arts Council, SINGAPORE

Artist-in-Residence, The Art Incubator, SINGAPORE

Singapore International Foundation Sponsorship, SINGAPORE

Artist-in-residence Program 2009, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, JAPAN

2008

Arts Professional Development Grant, National Arts Council. SINGAPORE

2007

Honorable Mention, Px3 Human Condition, Prix de la Photographie Paris, Paris, FRANCE

Honorable Mention, Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Paris, FRANCE

Finalist, Descubrimientos Prize, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, SPAIN

2002

2nd runner-up, Best Hong Kong Feature Photography, Foreign Correspondents Club HK Photographer of the Year, Hong Kong

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009

The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht 2009

Traces, The Art Incubator

Where do we go from here?, F/Stop Katalog 2009

La Gioia - visioni e rappresentazioni, Fotografia - Festival Internazionale di Roma

2008

Desultory Landscapes, Ooi Botos Gallery

Un Día Cualquiera, OjodePez, #12

Photographs by the Next Generation: 2007, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts

2007

Photographs by the Next Generation: 2006, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS

2009

Duffell, Rachel, “A New Vision”. In-House, October.

Shetty, Deepika. “20 Projects Picked for Fund”. The Straits Times, August 1.

Ang, Emilyn. “Making Use of Time”. The Business Times, July 31.

2008

Koon, Yee-wan. "How Strange the Familiar is". Muse Magazine, Issue 19, August.

Chen, Vivien. "Preview: Desultory Landscapes". South China Morning Post, July 10.

Day, Lara. "The Big Picture". Time Out (Hong Kong), June 4.

2007

Mayo, Martin. “art and e city”. Today, August 16.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, JAPAN

Hong Kong Heritage Museum, HONG KONG