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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