Tan Seow Wei

Born 1979 in Singapore
Graduated with Bachelor's degree in Arts & Social Science. National University of Singapore, 2001
Received Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Painting, LASALLE College of the Arts, 2008

Tan Seow Wei enjoys experimentations in printmaking, ink painting, and drawing. The human body in particular is an object of intense study for her. Not unlike the fortune teller who interprets one’s fate by reading lines of the palm or the detective who deciphers the identity of a person through the lines of the finger print, the artist sees the body as a fascinating network of lines and marks, not just as mere outlines but also contours, creases and folds. Though often curvaceous, the line quality of a human body presents itself in ways much more than that; strong or frail, thick or thin, continuous or broken. More importantly, whatever the lines are, they provide alternatives to reading the human body and also subtle hints to understanding the person.

Awards
2014 Siaw-Tao Outstanding Art Award

2007 Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College of the Arts

2005/06 Awarded Georgette Chen Scholarship

2003 Tan Tsze Chor Art Award (Distinction)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 BON á TIRER: Original Prints by Chen Shitong, April Ng, Tan Seow Wei & Zhang Fuming, AC43 Gallery,
Singapore
2018 48th Anniversary Exhibition, Siaw-Tao Chinese Seal-Carving Calligraphy & Painting Society, Singapore
2018 《我们做版画》, Grassroots Book Room, Singapore
2018 Dark Moments Naked Dog, Artsembly, Singapore
2018 The Diasporic Brush – Modern Singaporean Art, Wolfson College (University of Cambridge), England
Spring Edition I, Artsembly, Singapore
2017 Clay/Print, Artsembly, Singapore
2017 Singapore-Japan Chinese Ink Painting Exchange Exhibition, Visual Arts Centre, Singapore
2017 Impressions, Oriental Art and Cultural Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016-17 Ini mini mini mo, Visual Arts Centre, Singapore
2013-17 Siaw-Tao Chinese Seal-Carving Calligraphy & Painting Society Annual Exhibition, Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, Singapore
2015 Run. Ran. Run. Instinc Gallery, Singapore
2011 inFORMATION, Substation Gallery, Singapore
2010 1xSuitcase’, Meta House, Cambodia
2010 1xSuitcase’, Xi’an Textile City Art District Exhibition Center, China
2009 1xSuitcase’, Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2009 1xSuitcase’, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Thailand
2009 1x Suitcase, Alliance Francaise, Singapore