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  • Sightlines zines 1 + 2 and also my zine collab with Sidd Perez for Peninsular will be on sale at Currency Design's booth at the Singapore Art Book Fair the last weekend of June 2019 (28-30) at NTU CCA. Also Open studios at NTU CCA happens same weekend. I will be installing a new work.Image: Sightlines zines. Photo by Currency Design
  • It's the final week of the exhibition and the book for the exhibition Crossings is being launched Thursday May 2, 2019 at 7pm at NUS Museum. Conversation between myself, Sidd Perez and Lawrence Ypil. Also, read here an interview about the exhibition in Art Radar:http://artradarjournal.com/2018/11/05/crossings-with-wei-leng-tay-at-nus-museum-singapore-artist-profile-in-conversation/
  • Sightlines, with Michelle Wong, C&G, South Ho, Kinchoi Lam and Lam Wing Sze at Hong Kong Arts Centre's Experimental Gallery till April 19, 2019.
  • The final iteration of Crossings opened in October 2018 with the next part of the body of work {quote}You think it over slowly, slowly choose...{quote} (2018). The exhibition now runs till May 2019.
  • The second iteration of Crossings opens May 3, 2018 with the work And the first chapter it begins with the horses and recitations.
  • Crossings is a 4-part, 9 month solo exhibition at NUS Museum, Singapore. The first iteration opens March 8.
  • Artist Weston Teruya speaks with researcher Michelle Wong and myself about Sightlines and art-making and history in Hong Kong.
  • Convergence is presented in the exhibition Rearranging Boundaries at the Ballarat Foto Biennale in Australia from Aug 19 - Sept 17, 2017.Fellow artists in the exhibition include Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan/US), Abbas Kowsari (Iran), and Remissa Mak (Cambodia).
  • Sightlines is presented in New Urban Legend: Resistance of Space ,at 41 Ross, San Francisco, from May-July, 2017. Other artists and groups include Weston Teruya, the Pearl River Delta Residents project and Laura Boles Faw.As part of the Stanford Arts Institute/Stanford University and 41 Ross, we have a panel discussion: The Right to the Creative City: Towards Arts of Co-Liberation, at 41 Ross, San Francisco, on May 18, 2017 at 6.30pm.Panel ParticipantsAbby Chen, Artistic Director and Curator, Chinese Culture Center of SF, Ziying Duan, Assistant Curator, Chinese Culture Center of SF, Marci Kwon, Assistant Professor, Art History, Stanford University, Yongfeng Ma, artist, Wei Leng Tay, curator, Weston Teruya, artist, Michelle Wong, curator.
  • The Other Shore wins the 2017 WMA Award. The work is exhibited at Comix Home Base in Wanchai, Hong Kong, from April 14 to May 6 2017.
  • Here's an edited video with me talking about my work with Chinese migrants in Hong Kong, published in April 2017.
  • Feb-Mar: Initiated a 4 week workshop with fellow artists in Karachi - Conversation in Image-Making at Vasl, and a photography workshop for school children with the Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi.Conversation in image-making includes artists Samina Islam, Feroza Gulzar, Mujtaba Asif, Myra Javaid, Zoral Khurram, Madiha Aijaz.
  • Exhibition and talk with Siddharta Perez at Peninsular in Kapo Factory in Singapore from November 4, 2016. Talk with Sidd Perez on November 12.Peninsular is an artist-run platform initiated by Guo-Liang Tan and Cheong Kah Kit.
  • Two works, a hanging projection installation I was a different type of man back then (2015-2016), and multi-channel sound piece IntegrationII (2014), are in Cemeti at the exhibition Concept, Context, Contestation, organised by the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and presented at Cemeti Art Space and Ruang Mes 56.
  • Art historian and curator Olivier Krischer talks to editors at Demos about The Other Shore, which is being exhibited at the Australian National University Centre for China in the World Gallery from April till July 2016. Interview can be read here.
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