CV
Wei Leng Tay is an artist working across photography, video, and installation whose practice explores constructions of identity, memory, and history, particularly in relation to migration. Her works draw on long-term engagements with individuals, families, and communities, and often include research into photographic archives, interviews, and collaborative processes. By working at the intersection of the intimate and the structural, Tay unpacks the complexities of belonging, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Central to her practice is a sustained inquiry into the medium of photography—its materiality, modes of circulation, and communicative possibilities. Tay investigates how images are perceived, received, and interpreted, not only through what they represent but also through how they are produced, transformed, and presented. She works with a range of analogue and digital processes—from cyanotypes and film photography to smartphone images and microscopy—choosing methods specific to each project’s conceptual and narrative concerns. This deliberate engagement with technique and form allows her to explore the semiotics of the gaze, and how photographic technologies shape, limit, or expand the ways in which we encounter images today.
While her projects address broader socio-political questions, Tay’s focus often rests with the particular—foregrounding the lived experiences of individuals rather than generalised geopolitical frames. Through these specific and nuanced stories, she weaves counter-narratives that challenge dominant conceptions of nationhood, movement, and history, and bring attention to what it means to be human within shifting political and cultural contexts.
Originally trained in biology at McGill University, Tay’s early professional experience was in photojournalism, working as a photo editor and photographer for news organisations such as TIME Magazine’s Asia edition in Hong Kong. This background continues to inform her inquiry into the instrumentalisation of photography and the politics of image-making. Tay later completed her MFA at Bard College and has since developed a practice that bridges research, pedagogy, and collaboration. She was most recently a lecturer of art practice at Yale-NUS College and remains invested in teaching as a form of knowledge exchange and artistic inquiry.
Tay is also a founding member of Progressive Disintegrations (est. 2020, Singapore), a collaborative group with Chua Chye Teck, Marc Glöde, and Hilmi Johandi. The group works across artistic and curatorial practices to explore expanded formats for image-, art-, and exhibition-making.
Tay’s work has been exhibited internationally at STORAGE, Bangkok; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland; National Gallery Singapore; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; Cemeti Art House, Indonesia; ARTER Space for Art, Turkey; Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea; Lianzhou Foto Festival, China; Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan and Noorderlicht Photofestival, the Netherlands, among others. Her works are in collections including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Singapore Art Museum, Morgan Stanley Art Collection and Chau Chak Wing Museum. Tay received the Wyng Foundation WMA Prize (Hong Kong, 2017) and was a Yale University Poynter Fellow (2015). Her practice has been discussed in international publications including
Southeast of Now,
Trans Asia Photography Review, and
ArtAsiaPacific.
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art (Photography) Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, USA
Bachelor of Science (Biology, minor in Humanistic Studies) McGill University, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022+23
- Yeo Workshop+Crane Joo Chiat, View From This Side, Singapore
2021
- Wyng Foundation WMA Space, Abridge, Hong Kong
- University of Sydney Verge Gallery, Sydney, Abridge, Australia
2018-9
- NUS Museum, Crossings, Singapore (4 iterations)
2016
- Peninsular, Untitled, Singapore
- Australian National University CIW Gallery, The Other Shore, Canberra, Australia
2015
- Chan Hampe Galleries, How did we get here, Singapore
2014
- Lumenvisum, Out of Place, Hong Kong
2012
- Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok, Convergence, Thailand
2010-11
- National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum Baba House, Discordant Symmetries, Singapore
2010
- Alliance Francaise Gallery, Slow Cool Breezes, Month of Photography Asia, Singapore
2009
- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Where do we go from here?, Winds of the Artist-in-Residence, Japan
2008
- Ooi Botos Gallery, Desultory Landscapes, Hong Kong
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
- National Gallery Singapore, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, Singapore
- Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, Wege und Wandel. Bilder aus der Diaspora, Switzerland
- Bangkok University Gallery, Onsite - An on-going project by expensivetobepoor, Bangkok, Thailand
- Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Making Space, Singapore
- Storage, [im]print, Bangkok, Thailand
- Art SG, From the Land of Gold Below the Winds in the South Seas, Singapore
- 39+ Art Space, Thinking about Abstraction, Singapore
2022
- National Gallery Singapore, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, Singapore
- ASIA NOW, Yeo Workshop, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
- Gillman Barracks, Inside the Wild Cube, Singapore
2020-21
- Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Progressive Disintegrations, Singapore
- National Arts Council, Streets of Hope, Singapore
2019
- Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA), Residencies OPEN x Art After Dark, Singapore
- NTU CCA, Residencies OPEN, Singapore
- Hong Kong Art Centre Experimental Gallery, Sightlines, Hong Kong
- Christie’s, Asia Art Archive Annual Fundraiser 2019, Hong Kong
- Secretariat (with Goethe Institut Yangon and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), Concept Context Contestation, Yangon, Myanmar
2018
- LASALLE Institute for Contemporary Arts, Moving Pledges, Singapore
- Jut Art Museum, The Flying Land, Taipei, Taiwan
- Bard UBS Exhibition Center, Setup, NY, USA
2017
- Art Basel HK with Asia Art Archive, Under the Influence, Hong Kong
- Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Performance of Identity, Australia
- Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco : 41 Ross, New Urban Legend: Resistance of Space, USA
- WMA Masters at Comix Home Base, Mobility, Hong Kong
2016
- Daegu Arts and Culture Center, Daegu Photo Biennale 2016: We are from somewhere, but where are we going?, South Korea
- Cemeti Art House, Concept Context Contestation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- JCCAC L0 Gallery (with European Photography Magazine), Hong Kong Contemporary Photography 2016, Hong Kong
2015
- Lianzhou Photography Festival, Expanded Geographies, China
- FORMAT Festival, Evidence, Derby, U.K.
- Goethe Institut Hanoi, Concept Context Contestation, Vietnam
- Palace 66 (with Hong Kong International Photo Festival), 300 Families, Shenyang, China
- Bonhams, Prints, Photographs and Works on Paper Auction, Hong Kong
- Full Circle Gallery, Residue, Karachi, Pakistan
2014
- ARTER Space for Art, The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia, Istanbul, Turkey
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Basically.Forever – KMOPA, Japan
- Beijing World Art Museum, Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennial, China
- Yuejin Lantern Festival, Yanshui Days, Yanshuei, Taiwan
2013-14
- Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
2013
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Asian Art Biennial: Everyday Life, Taichung, Taiwan
- National Museum of Singapore, Samsung Masterpieces, Singapore
- Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong International Photo Festival Flare: 300 Families, Hong Kong
- Seoul Photo 2013 (with Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts), YP13, , South Korea
- ArtisTree, WYNG Masters Award Exhibition, Hong Kong
- Galerie Steph+Botos. at Scotts Square, Bright Lights, Singapore
- Galerie Steph, P.O.V.: Alternate Perspectives In Asian Contemporary Photography, Singapore
2012
- Singapore Art Museum 8Q, DiverseCity, Singapore
- Para Site Art Space, Moving Up, Hong Kong
- Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, STILL BUILDING, Bandung, Indonesia
- Valentine Willie Fine Art, STILL BUILDING, Singapore
- Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore Survey 2012: New Strange Faces, Singapore
- Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Portraiture Now, Singapore
- ART HK (with HK Arts Promotion Office), 12 Oil Street Project, Hong Kong
2011-12
- Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, I have also other favorites, Kosovo
2011
- Sotheby’s Hall HKCEC and Kee Club, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Auction 2011, Hong Kong
- Delhi Photo Festival 2011, Affinity, New Delhi, India
- Millenium Walk, ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Profile Exhibition, Singapore
2010
- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, All About Fukuoka: The 10 Years of FAAM Artist-in-Residence Program, Japan
- Hong Kong Heritage Museum, City Flaneur: Social Documentary Photography, Hong Kong
- National Museum of Singapore, Human Faces, Singapore
- Gallery VER with Para Site Art Space, Grid versus Chaos, Bangkok, Thailand
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2009, Japan
- Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore Survey 2010: Beyond LKY, Singapore
- Para Site Art Space, ArtMART 2010, Hong Kong
2009
- Former Natur Museum, Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2009: The Pursuit of Happiness, Groningen, The Netherlands
- LASALLE Institute of Contemporary Art Earl Lu Gallery, Traces, Singapore
- 3. Internationales Fotografiefestival F/Stop, Where do we go from here?, Leipzig, Germany
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Fotografia International Festival of Rome: Declinations of Joy, Rome, Italy
- Para Site Art Space, ArtMART 2009, Hong Kong
- Photo MIAMI 2009 (with Charles Guice Contemporary), Miami, USA
2008
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2007, Japan
- The University of the Arts Gallery 1401, The Photo Review 2008, Philadelphia, USA
- O’Born Contemporary, Document, Toronto, Canada
2007
- Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Art Exhibition 2007 in Singapore Art Show, Singapore
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2006, Japan
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, PhotoEspana 2007: Descubrimientos Phe07, Madrid, Spain
- PhotoEspana 2007, Projections of the Night of Photography, Madrid, Spain
- Grotto Fine Art, Group Exhibition, Hong Kong
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020- ongoing
Progressive Disintegrations: Wei Leng Tay, Marc Gloede, Hilmi Johandi, Chua Chye Teck
2016- 2019
Sightlines (Hong Kong): Wei Leng Tay, Michelle Wong, C&G Artpartment, South Ho Siu Nam, Kinchoi Lam, Lam Wing Sze
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
Stories that Matter: Mediation/Circulation Public Talks and Workshop (co-curated with Chelsea Chua), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
2020
Documentary Photo Awards: Rony Zakaria: Pantura: Where are you, Mr Daendels?, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore (exhibition curator)
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz Fotobibliothek, Switzerland
Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, USA
National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum, Singapore
RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS
2019
- Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA) Singapore Residencies Programme, Singapore
- Centro de Creación Contemporanea de Andalucía, Artist Residency, Cordoba, Spain
2017
- Vasl Artists’ Collective Artist Residency, Karachi, Pakistan
2016
- Australian National University School of Art, Visiting Artist Residency, Canberra, Australia
2015
- Vasl Artists’ Collective Artist Residency, Karachi, Pakistan
- FORMAT Festival and WYNG Masters Award, Participatory Project, Derby, U.K. and Hong Kong
2013-14
- Yuejin Lantern Festival Site-Specific Project, Yanshui, Taiwan
2011
- Hong Kong Arts Promotion Office, 12 Oil Street Project, Hong Kong
2009
- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Artist-in-Residence, Fukuoka, Japan
- The Art Incubator Residency (with Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film), Singapore
SELECTED AWARDS
2023
- Yale-NUS College, Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme Award, Singapore
2022
- Harvard University Peabody Museum, Finalist, Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, USA
2021
- National Arts Council, SEP Grant, Singapore
2020
- Tote Board, Arts Fund, Singapore
- National Arts Council, Digital Presentation Grant, Singapore
2019
- University of Sydney China Studies Centre Fund, Australia
2018
- Bard College, Bard MFA Fellowship, USA
2017
- Bard College, Bard MFA Fellowship, USA
- Wyng Foundation, Winner, Wyng Masters Award, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Project Grant, Hong Kong
- Tote Board, Arts Fund, Singapore
2016
- Bard College, Bard MFA Fellowship, USA
2015
- Yale University School of Art, Poynter Fellowship, USA
2012
- Wyng Foundation, Finalist, WYNG Masters Award, Hong Kong
- Singapore International Foundation, Singapore Internationale Grant, Singapore
2011
- ICON Martell de Cordon Bleu Photography Prize 2011, Finalist, Singapore
- National Heritage Board, Heritage Industry Incentive Programme (Hi2P) Grant, Singapore
2009
- Singapore International Foundation, Singapore Internationale Grant, Singapore
- National Arts Council, Arts Creation Fund, Singapore
- Singapore International Foundation Sponsorship, Singapore
2007
- PhotoEspana 2007, Finalist, Descubrimientos Prize, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOPS
2023
- Conversation with Charmaine Toh. Transforming the Familiar: Imaging History Through Wei Leng Tay’s Creative Process, Crane Joo Chiat, Singapore
- Artist Lecture on Studio Practice and Materiality, Hong Kong University MA Art History Programme, Hong Kong
- [im]print Exhibition Artists Talk and Tour, Storage Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
- Artist Talk, Hong Kong International Photo Festival Satellite Programme, Hong Kong
- Studio Visit and Talk, SEA Focus, Singapore
2022
- Artist Tours with View From This Side, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
- Conversation: Risks, Routines and Collaborations, for Gan Siong King: My Video Making Practice, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- Inside the Wild Cube Conversation, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2021
- Before the Picture: Tse Ka-Man and Wei Leng Tay in conversation, WMA Space, Hong Kong
- Memory, media, escape, Hong Kong: Yung Ma and Wei Leng Tay in conversation, WMA Space, Hong Kong
- light image surface touch: Yvette Hamilton and Wei Leng Tay in conversation, Verge ‘Opening Drinks’ podcast, University of Sydney, Australia
- image history memory place: John Young and Wei Leng Tay in conversation, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia
- Public/Private Memory: Wei Leng Tay with Hilmi Johandi, Progressive Disintegrations exhibition, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
- Mould: Wei Leng Tay with Chua Chye Teck, Progressive Disintegrations exhibition, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
- rethinking collaboration, process and dialogue, Progressive Disintegrations exhibition panel discussion, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
- Stories that Matter Workshop, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film Singapore
- Wei Leng Tay: Memory, Representation and Projection Across Media, 4D Class with Geraldine Kang, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2020
- Rony Zakaria: Pantura: Where are you, Mr. Daendels?, Artist-Curator dialogue, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore
- Curatorial (Case) Studies - guest artist discussion, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
- Artist Talk in relation to artwork in museum collection, with the “Global Anglophone Literature” class with Jerrine Tan, Mount Holyoke College, USA (online)
- Artist Conversation in “Photography and Text” class, Pratt Institute, NYC, USA (online)
- Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop with Dr Olivier Krischer, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
2019
- Seeing Another: Working with and through Representation. Conversation with Fangtze Hsu, NTU CCA, Singapore
- Conversation with Sidd Perez and Lawrence Ypil, NUS Museum, Singapore
- Artist Tours, Sightlines, Experimental Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
- Concerned Citizens Programme: Conversation with Chris Yeo, The Substation, Singapore
- Workshop, NTU CCA studio visit with Yale-NUS College, Singapore
2018
- Artist Talk, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- NUS Arts Festival 2018 Critical Conversations: Dreams Caught in Between Worlds, NUS Museum, Singapore
- Artist Talk with Siddharta Perez, NUS Museum, Singapore
- Visual Arts Workshop with James Jack, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Artist talk and conversation in relation to NUS Museum exhibition Crossings, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Artist talk and conversation in “Photography, Visual Rhetoric, and Public Culture” class, NUS, Singapore
- Artist talk and conversation in “The Social Life of Art” class, NUS, Singapore
- Artist talk and conversation in “International Migration” class, NUS, Singapore
- Artist talk and conversation in “Geographies of Migration” class, NUS, Singapore
2017
- Panel Discussion: The Right to the Creative City: Towards Arts of Co-Liberation, Stanford University and 41 Ross, San Francisco, USA
- Conversation in Image-Making Workshop, Vasl Artists’ Collective, Karachi, Pakistan
- Photography Workshop, Vasl Artists’ Collective with Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan
2016
- Lecture with Siddharta Perez, Peninsular, Singapore
- Artist Lecture, Art Forum Series, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia
- Artist Lecture, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia
- Photography Workshop, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
- Artist Talk, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan
2015
- Artist Talk with Ali Sultan and Seher Naveed, Full Circle Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
- Artist Talk, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
- Artist Talk, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
- Artist Talk and Conversation, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA (2)
- Artist Lecture: “Conversation with Wei Leng Tay: Exploring Community Through Photography and Conversation”, Mount Holyoke College, USA
2014
- Artist Talk, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2013
- Artist Lecture, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- Artist Talk, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
- Panel Discussion, Hong Kong International Photography Festival, Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong
- Shooting Home Workshop, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
2012
- Artist Talk with Lisa Botos, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
- Artist Lecture, RMA Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
- Panel Discussion (in conjunction with STILL BUILDING), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia
2011
- Artist conversation, Baba House, National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore
- Artist talk, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
- Shooting Home Workshop, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
- Oil Street Project Workshop, Arts Promotion Office, Hong Kong
2010
- Artist Lecture, VER Gallery+Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2009
- Artist Lecture, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
- Community Photography Workshop, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
- Art Incubator Residency Workshop, The Art Incubator and Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
- Artist Talk with Hafiz Osman and Claire Lim, Institute of Contemporary Art, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Published books/zines/essays
- Wei Leng Tay, Convergence, monograph, 2013
- Inside the Wild Cube. co-authors: Chua Chye Teck, Hilmi Johandi, Wei Leng Tay,
Marc Gloede, Brian O’Doherty. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition Inside the Wild Cube at Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2022
- Progressive Disintegrations. co-authors: Chua Chye Teck, Hilmi Johandi, Wei Leng Tay, Marc Gloede. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition Progressive Disintegrations with Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore, 2021
- Sightlines II, co-edited and introduction co-written by Wei Leng Tay and Michelle Wong. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition Sightlines at Hong Kong Arts Centre’s Experimental Gallery, 2019
- Sightlines, co-edited and essays co-written by Wei Leng Tay and Michelle Wong. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition New Urban Legend: Resistance of Space, with 41 Ross, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 2017
- #Session 2, Co-edited with Siddhartha Perez, Peninsular, 2017
- How did we get here, essays by Robin Peckham and Lisa Botos, co-edited by Wei Leng Tay and Lisa Botos, solo exhibition catalogue, Chanhampe Galleries, 2015
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
- Wei Leng Tay, Olivier Krischer. “An Abridged Conversation in Acts,” ISSUE No. 9, LASALLE College of the Arts, 2021
Book Chapters
- Olivier Krischer and Wei Leng Tay. “Excerpts from a conversation,” Crossings, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2019
- Anthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay. “Photography and Diaspora: A roundtable.” Photography and Migration, ed. Tanya Sheehan, Routledge, 2018. Chapter 11
- Introduction and interview, e-brochure printed on the occasion of the exhibition Rony Zakaria: Pantura: Where are you, Mr. Daendels?, at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore, 2020
Works Cited and Reviewed (selected)
Kenneth Tay. “A Slow Descent: Through the Photographic Surfaces of Wei Leng Tay, Vandy Rattana and Poklong Anadang,” Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, 2022, pp. 360-365
Lee Weng Choy. “The Micro-history and the Photograph,” for solo exhibition View from This Side, Yeo Workshop, Singapore, Oct 2022
Michelle Wong. “Five Vignettes (on dust),” hakara: A bilingual journal of creative expression, 14th Edition: Barrier, Nov. 2021
Soo-Min Shim. "Mediating the Media: Politics and Place in Wei Leng Tay's Photo-Images,” Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Volume 5, Numbers 1 & 2, October 2021, pp. 359-364.
Chloe Morrissey. '“Abridge”: Wei Leng Tay,' ArtAsiaPacific Review, June 2021
Seet Yun Teng. “Progressive Disintegrations, Collective Accumulations,” Plural Art Magazine, 26/1/2021
Olivier Krischer. “Surface Tension: Hong Kong Photographs in Wei Leng Tay’s Abridge Project,” Trans Asia Photography (TAP) Review, Spring 2020, Hampshire College and Michigan Publishing, 2020
Kathleen Ditzig. “Wei Leng Tay: Live streaming, Prince Edward, 12/11/2019, 23:35:05-06,” OSMOS Magazine, Issue 20, 2020
Fang-Tze Hsu. “Between Not Yet and Nevermore: Wei Leng Tay’s Fugitive Images,” Crossings, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2019
Siddharta Perez. “Time Between,” Crossings, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2019
Jessica Clifford. “'Crossings' with Wei Leng Tay at NUS Museum, Singapore – artist profile + in conversation," Art Radar, 5/11/2018
Roger Nelson. “Fragmentation and complexity in Crossings by Wei Leng Tay,” Artlink Issue 38:3, September 2018
APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018 Catalogue, Singapore Art Museum, 2018
Mobility: WMA Masters, prize exhibition catalogue, Wyng Foundation, 2017
We are from somewhere, but where are we going?, exhibition catalogue, Daegu Photo Biennale 2016
Olivier Krischer. “Insight and Identity,” Portrait 53, National Portrait Gallery Australia, Winter 2016
Annette Liu and Esther Carlin. "Looking at Photomedia Artist Wei Leng Tay's 'The Other Shore' -- Olivier Krischer interviewed by Annette Liu and Esther Carlin," Demos Journal Issue 4: Boundaries, 2016
Vasl 2015 Catalog, Vasl Artists’ Collective, 2016
“Hong Kong,” European Photography vol. 99, 2016
Expanded Geographies, exhibition catalogue, Lianzhou Photography Festival, 2015
Patricia Lee. “The Unfiltered Lens: Tay Wei Leng,“ The U Press N˚10, Underscore, 2015
Robin Peckham. “Reading a photograph by Wei Leng Tay,” How did we get here, solo exhibition catalogue, Chanhampe Galleries, 2015
Lisa Botos. “Out of Place,” How did we get here, solo exhibition catalogue, Chanhampe Galleries, 2015
Anthony W. Lee. “Photography & Diaspora: A roundtable with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay,” Trans Asia Photography (TAP) Review, 2014
The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia, exhibition catalogue, ARTER Space for Art, 2014
Olivier Krischer. “Slow Cool Breezes,” Photofile vol. 94, Australian Centre for Photography, 2014
Concept, Context, Contestation, exhibition catalogue, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 2014
Iris Huang. Everyday Life, Asian Art Biennial, exhibition catalogue, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2013
300 Families, exhibition catalogue, Hong Kong International Photography Festival Flare, 2013
STILL BUILDING, exhibition catalogue, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, 2012
“Like Boys,” WERK No 19, 2012
Affinity, exhibition catalogue, Delhi Photo Festival 2011, India Habitat Centre and Nazar Foundation, 2011
Alvaro Fominaya. “Wei Leng Tay: Images of the Unfamiliar Familiarity,” Punctum, Issue 1, 2011
City Flaneur: Social Documentary Photography, exhibition catalogue, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 2010
Qinyi Lim. “Introduction,” Discordant Symmetries, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2010
John Rohrbach. “Photographing Your Own,” Discordant Symmetries, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2010
Ooi Kee Beng. “Can Cultural Identity Travel?” Discordant Symmetries, solo exhibition catalogue, NUS Museum, 2010
“Interior Living,” Daylight Magazine, May 2010
“Outside,” Ojodepez, #20, 2010
Photographs by the Next Generation: 2009, exhibition catalogue, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, 2010
The Pursuit of Happiness, exhibition catalogue, Noorderlicht 2009
Traces, exhibition catalogue, The Art Incubator 2009
“Where do we go from here?,” exhibition catalogue, F/Stop Katalog 2009
La Gioia - visioni e rappresentazioni, exhibition catalogue, Fotografia - Festival Internazionale di Roma 2009
May Lyn L. Cruz. At home, at ease?, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum curator-in-residence, 2009
Yeewan Koon. “How strange the familiar is: Review of Shi Guorui and Wei Leng Tay,” Muse No. 19, East Slope Publishing, Aug 2008
Anthony W. Lee. “Homely Spaces,” Desultory Landscapes, solo exhibition catalogue, Ooi Botos Gallery, 2008
“Un Día Cualquiera,” OjodePez, #12, 2008
Photographs by the Next Generation: 2007, exhibition catalogue, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, 2008
Photographs by the Next Generation: 2006, exhibition catalogue, Kiyosato Museum of
Photographic Arts, 2007