Born in Kluang in 1984, Gan Tee Sheng gained his art education from the Dasein Academy of Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur. He majored in Fine Art and has been participating in exhibitions since 2008, such as Lost Generation Space’s ‘Bangun’ (2008), House of MATAHATI’s ‘Young & New Part III’ (2009), Wei-Ling Gallery’s ‘The Garden of Hidden Desires’ (2011), and the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award (MEAA) (2011).
Interested in human emotions, the artist pays particular attention to the repressed feelings that run deep underneath our innermost thoughts. The element of surrealism is rife in his works, and his art is inspired by mankind’s desires, where intuition, illusion, and the subconscious mind are turned into symbolic icons to question how people handle and struggle with sex, desire, and negative thinking.
Human figures form the core subject matter in Tee Sheng’s paintings, and they are often integrated with interior spaces, utilitarian forms, and peculiar objects. All his works explore the internal world that is the human mind, so as to disclose the intimate relationship between humans and their objects of desire. Tee Sheng’s participation in HOM’s Adopted Artist-in-Residence (A-Res) programme marks his first artist residency to date.
Artwork
Mother
2013 / Oil on canvas / 60.5 x 46.5cm / RM1400
Portrait #1 (shown at ChinaHouse, Penang)
2013 / Oil on canvas / 39 x 50cm / RM1400 reserved
Portrait #2 (shown at ChinaHouse, Penang)
2013 / Oil on canvas / 39 x 50cm / RM1400 reserved
Father and Son (Duo: The Storyteller at HOM, Ampang)
2013 / Oil on canvas / 65 x 90cm / RM2300
Lost Boy (Duo: The Storyteller at HOM, Ampang)
2013 / Oil on canvas / 65 x 90cm / RM2300
Homesick
2013 / Oil on canvas / 240 x 160cm / RM8800
Naked Women
2013 / Oil on canvas / 98 x 79.5cm / RM2500
Women with Leafs
2013 / Oil on canvas / 132.5 x 89cm / RM3500
Two Black Suns
2013 / Oil on canvas / 132.5 x 89cm / RM3500 sold