WONG LIP CHIN
Lip is a Singaporean artist whose distinct visual style simultaneously pays homage to and bastardizes pop culture and traditional Chinese aesthetics influences. His eye-catching paintings, installations, and performances are autobiographical expressions of his personal dilemmas set in a playful world of eccentricity. Lilou, Oomoo and Gemunggal, three cartoon-like characters, make recurring appearances as his alter-egos to bring levity and contradiction to otherwise serious and sorrowful subject matters.
Lip was trained in printmaking at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (B.A. 2009). Since 2007, he has held many solo and group exhibitions with galleries and museums globally. At present, he is pioneering a neo-Nanyang style to bring about a cultural turn to the local and regional art scene.
