Bio

Guo-Liang Tan (b. Singapore) is a visual artist working primarily in the field of painting, from which works in other mediums such as text, collage and video sometimes emerge. In his work, surfaces, painterly or otherwise, become a space for performing gestures of affect and conjuring a haunting that converses with the ghosts of abstraction.

Tan completed his BA in Fine Art & Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, London and his MFA at Glasgow School of Art. He was also a guest student at The Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre of Contemporary Art. He is a recipient of Singapore National Arts Council Scholarship as well as the Mackendrick Scholarship and the Antje und Jürgen Conzelmann Preis for painting. He was also a finalist in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2018.

His work has been exhibited and collected in Asia and Europe. Recent exhibitions include ‘The Trouble With Painting Today’ (2014) at Pump House Gallery, London, ‘Guo-Liang Tan: Ghost Screen’ (2017) at Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, ‘A Different Way Of (Thinking About) Painting?’ (2017) at Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, ‘Ethereal Machines’ (2018) at Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai, â€˜Elevation Laos’ (2018) at icat Gallery, Vientiane and ‘Reformations’ (2019) at NTU ADM Gallery, Singapore .

Tan belongs to a generation of artists whose creative output extends beyond his own studio practice. Alongside his own work, he also collaborates with other artists on curatorial and publication projects, including ‘Aversions’ and ‘Found & Lost’ (2009) for Osage Gallery, ‘We who saw signs’ (2011) for Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and ‘Side Affects’ (2019) for Ota Fine Arts.

Guo-Liang Tan is represented by Ota Fine Arts.

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