Visual artist Wyn-Lyn TAN works at the threshold between the visible and the invisible, conjuring abstract landscapes that trace an intimate dialogue with place, presence, and impermanence. Her practice is rooted in a sensibility attuned to the rhythms of the natural world—its subtle shifts, silences, energies. Guided by Eastern philosophies, particularly the paradoxical nature of qi as both everything and nothing, Tan’s paintings are meditations on transformation and the metaphysical.

Drawing from an expansive field that includes geology, alchemy, ecology, and philosophy, Tan moves between mediums, mapping unseen emotional and cultural terrains. Her paintings often emerge through additive and subtractive gestures, as she allows time, rhythm, chance, and intuition to shape the work. At the heart of her practice is a longstanding exploration of negative space, light, and translucency. Absence is not void, but resonance. Erasure is not loss but trace.

Often informed by time spent in remote natural landscapes, Tan’s practice remains attuned to place as a threshold: the outer mirrored in the inner. Her works are not landscapes in the conventional sense, but subtle invitations to dwell in the atmospheric, the not-quite-seen, the in-between.

Tan received her MFA with Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has been awarded the Kunstnerstipend scholarship and Statens utstillingsstipend grant (2017), Norway, as well as artist residencies with Cité Internationale des Arts artist-in-residence, Paris, France (2024), The Arctic Circle Residency (2011), Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA (2008) and Fiskars Village, Finland (2007). She has exhibited widely both locally and internationally. Selected solo presentations include at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore (2023), Østfold Kunstsenter, Norway (2018), Art Basel Hong Kong (2017), and Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (2014). She has been featured in international group exhibitions in New York, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and China. Her works can be found in the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum, as well as numerous other public and private collections. Upcoming commissions include a public artwork commissioned by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, and an experiential new media installation commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore for the Children's Biennale 2025. She is represented by FOST Gallery (Singapore) and Sapar Contemporary (New York).