Yeo Chee Kiong (b. 1970) is a contemporary sculptor and installation artist who is fascinated with the language and spatial relationship between object, space and authorship. His work destabilises the familiar notions of spatial proportions and perspectives, whilst examining the human conditions in the construction of an extended surreal world.

As an alumnus of the Glasgow School of Art (UK) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), his list of conferred awards and commendations include the NAFA Distinguished Alumni Medal for his outstanding achievement in Singapore art scene (2016), SG50 Commemorative Public Sculpture Competition, National Museum of Singapore (2015), JTC Green Core Public Sculpture Open Call (2014), the LTA Downtown Line Art Competition, ExpoStation (2012), Legacy Sculpture for Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Village Sculpture Competition, Grand prize for the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize (2008), NAC Young Artist Award (2006), 14th Asian Artists Award, VSC Fellowships (2006 – 2007), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts 68th Founder’s Day Commendation Award (2006) and Grand prize for the 2nd CDL Singapore Sculpture Award (2005). Yeo was also short-listed as one of the 25 outstanding finalists amongst a total of 574 international entries whilst participating in the International Competition for Young Sculptors in Milan, Italy in 2006. 

He has presented a number of solo exhibitions at The Columns Gallery, Seoul & Singapore (2021), Juming Art Museum, Taipei (2017), Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries, NAFA, Singapore (2016), Cite International Des Arts, Paris (2013), Richard Koh Fine Art Gallery, Singapore (2011), Esplanade –Concourse, Singapore (2009), National Museum of Singapore (2007), Esplanade – Jendela Gallery, Singapore (2007), Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Centre (2006) and The Substation, Singapore (2001).  

Yeo’s work has also been part of a number of internationally recognised group exhibitions, biennales and symposiums including "Sculpture Survey 2018", 35th Annual Exhibition, Gomboc Gallery, Perth, 14th Qita Asian Sculpture Exhibition, Fumio Asakura Sculpture Museum, Japan (2018), Keelung Harbour Biennale, Taiwan (2018), Venice Biennale, Italy (2017), 3rd FORMOSA Sculpture Biennial, Taiwan (2017), Suide International Stone Sculpture Symposium, China (2017), Art in The Forest, Hanoi, Vietnam (2017), Asia Sculpture Exchange Exhibition, Japan(2016), Sculpture @ Silk Road, Dun Huang, China (2016), Taiwan International Miniature Sculpture Exhibition, Taipei (2015), Zhuo Zheng Ya Ji, Suzhou, China (2015), the 25th and 26th UBE Biennale, UBE City, Japan (2013/2015), Art Amoy Art Fair, Xiamen, China (2015), the 3rd China Sculpture Almanac Exhibition, Beijing, China (2013), ‘Sculpture by the Sea’, Aarhus/Sydney (2013/2007), Sculpture Inside, Arhus (2013), Singapore Contemporary Art Exhibition, Suzhou, China (2013), ‘Don’t Sit On Me’, Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre, Melaka, Malaysia (2012), Hong Kong International Sculpture Symposium (2012), ‘Sound of Peace – ROC Centennial Peace Day’, Jinmen (2011), Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu, China (2010), East Asia Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (2010), International Urban Sculpture Symposium, Urumqi, China (2009), Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), International Sculpture Symposium for Chinese Sculptors, City of Assen, Holland (2008), Taiwan International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Taiwan (2008), ‘Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro’, Milan, Italy (2006), ‘From There to Here’, Kyoto, Japan (2005), Singapore Culture Society Art Exhibition, Sri Lanka (2001), and the 27th International Snow Sculpture Symposium, Quebec (1998). 

He was the recipient of the Dr. Mary Doughty Smith Scholarship at Glasgow School of Art and John Kinross Scholarship at Royal Scottish Academy.

In the course of his career, Yeo has held several appointments including Acting President of the Sculpture Society (Singapore) (2014), Chairman of Telok Kurau Studios Management Committee (2014 - 2016), Advisor, Norwegian Collaborative Organisation for Contemporary Art Abroad, London (2011 - 2015), Committee Member of Public Art Appraisal Committee, National Heritage Board, (2010 - 2013); Member of Curriculum Development Advisory Committee of NAFA, Fine Art Department (2011 - 2014)(2018-2020), Panel Member of Young Artist Award’s Specialist Panel for Visual Art, National Arts Council (2012, 2013, 2016), Panel Member of Cultural Medallion Specialist Panel for Visual Art, National Arts Council (2018). President of the Sculpture Society (Singapore) (2005 – 2009, 2015 - 2019)

Since Jan 1994: Part-time Lecturer, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

2016 - 2019: Part-time Lecturer, LaSalle College of Arts, Singapore.

2017 - 2020: Visiting Assistant Professor, Sculpture Department, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan.

2022

“Sculpture by The Sea, Cottesloe 2022”, Perth, Australia, March 2022

“The Key To Be Free”, 3rd Biennale Arte Dolomiti 2022, Forte Monte Ricco, Pieve Di Cafore, BL, Italy, May – July 2022.

2021

“reTHINGing”, Contemporary Sculpture Show Series @ Esplanade, Objectif, SCCC & NAFA, Sculpture Society (Singapore), Singapore, July 2021 – July 2022

“The Bubblelloon”, Solo Show, Gallery Qualia, The Columns Gallery, Seoul,  June - August 2021

“The Bubblelloon”, Solo Show, The Columns Gallery, Singapore, Jan – April 2021

“SEA Focus”, STPI, Helutrans Space, Singapore, Jan 2021

“Sculpture Walk”, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore Jun 2021 – May 2021

“NAFA’s Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2021”, 28 – 30 July 2021

Conference paper: “reTHINGing in Digital Age – Six Private Objects”, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan, Oct 2021

Conference paper – “The Ephemeral Theatre of Clay”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Taiwan, Oct 2021

Curatorial Project: Co-Curator, “reTHINGing”, Contemporary Sculpture Show Series @ Esplanade, Objectif, SCCC & NAFA, Sculpture Society (Singapore), Singapore, July 2021 – July 2022

Publication: “VAGUEVOGUE Lifestyle Magazine – The Yeo Chee Kiong Collection”, Artist Publishing Co, Taiwan, June 2021

Public Sculpture: “Winter Orchid”, CapitaSpring, Singapore, Nov 2021

2020

“Street of Hope”, Civic District, National Arts Council, Singapore, 4th June – 1st September 2020

“Sculpture Walk”, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore, June 2020 – May 2021

Artist Talk: “Oblique Book Launch”, NAFA, Singapore 18th Jan 2020

Artist Talk: “Sculpture Walk @ SCCC”, Singapore 18th Jan 2020

Artist Talk,: “Public Art and Immersive Media: The Convergence of Past and Present”, AR.T Trail. Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore, 18th Jan 2020

Radio Interview: “城市琪遇记”,FM 958, 16th Jan 2020

Selected Bibliography: “Haiku – Sculpture 2019 In Okinawa”, Sculpture 5.7.5 Working Committee, pg.155, March 2020

Selected Bibliography: “Migration – In search of re-habitat and material memory”, Taitung Art Museum, pg.34 – pg.39,  March 2020

Selected Bibliography: “Sculpture . Play . Ground”, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

County Government Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, pg. 10 - pg.19, Jan 2020

2019

“Migration – In search of re-habitat and material memory”, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan, 21st Dec 2019 – 16th Feb 2020

“Urban Bonsai Body”, Sculpture Department of National Taiwan University Of Arts, 18th Nov – 1st Dec. 2019

“Sculpture . Play . Ground”, National Taiwan University Of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 5th Aug – 5th Oct 2019

“200”, SSS Annual Show 2019, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Singapore, 17th June – 1st July 2019

“Sisyphus & Syphilis”, Our Museum, NTUA, Taipei, Taiwan, 11th June -23rd June, 2019

"Seoul Art Expo 2019", Coex, Seoul, Korea, 26th - 28th April 2019

"NTUA Sculpture Annual Exhibition", Sculpture Department of National Taiwan University Of Arts, 17th April to 28th April 2019

"Our Art", Art Auction for Charity, Our Museum, National University of Taiwan, 21st - 23rd Feb, 2019

"Sculpture Walk", One Year Public Sculpture Display Project, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 18th Feb 2019 - 18th Feb 2020.

"Representation of Asian Sculpture Vol.2 - Taiwan", Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan, 15th Jan - 7th Feb 2019

"Between Representation and Abstraction" - The Aesthetic Front of Taiwan Sculpture, Hsinchu 241 Art Gallery, Taiwan, 12th Jan - 24th March 2019

"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall", Exhibition of Juming Museum Collection, Juming Museum, Taiwan, 29th Jan - 9th June 2019

"Blue Carbon", Wood Sculpture Symposium, organized by Sculpture Society (Singapore), Pasir Ris Park, 16th- 20th Jan

Curatorial Project: “In-corpoReal”, Rodin Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, 4th Oct – 15th Nov 2019

Artist Talk: “Stone Sculpture”, CAFA, Beijing, China, 1st July 2019

Workshop: “NTUA Clay Sculpting Project”, Sculpture Department of National Taiwan University Of Arts, 5th Aug – 16th Aug 2019,

Selected Bibliography: “Art in The Forest 2015-2019”, The Flamango Group, Vietnam, pg.60,  Oct 2019

Selected Bibliography: “Representation of Asian Sculptor Vol.2”, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan, pg.14, March 2019

Selected Bibliography: “M Space 2017 Formosa Sculpture Biennale”, Tung Ho Steel Foundation, Taiwan, pg 94 – pg 99, Jan 2019

2018

President, Sculpture Society (Singapore)

"Motionless Boundary", Vision of Stillness, Art from Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, Da Xin Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, 10 Nov - 8th Dec 2018.

9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, Sculpture Department, National Taiwan University of Arts, 6th - 18th Nov 2017

"14th Qita Asian Sculpture Exhibition", Fumio Asakura Sculpture Museum, Japan, 29th Sept - 25th Nov

"2018 Keelung Harbour Biennale - Ask The Way", Keelung Cultural Centre, Taiwan, 25th Sept - 4th Nov

"SSS Annual Show", Visual Art Centre, Singapore, 9th August to 15th August

"Motionless Boundary", Element Art Space, Gillman Barrack, SIngapore, 7th July to 12th August

"Sculpture Survey 2018", 35th Annual Exhibition, Gomboc Gallery, Perth, West Australia, 10th June to 29th July 2018

"State of Emergency", DLR Gallery, Singapore, 25th May to 3rd June 2018

"You, Other; I, Another", The Private Museum, Singapore, 17th May to 22nd July 2018

"NTUA Sculpture Festival", Sculpture Department of National Taiwan University Of Arts, 13th March to 25th March 2018

"Of Human Heritage", An India Singapore Exchange of Sculptural Art, Art Spice Gallery, New Dehli, India,  3rd Feb to 9th Feb 2018

Public Sculpture: “Eagle”, , Aetos Complex, Singapore, Jan 2018

Artist Talk: "另一類的流浪方式"， 華梵大学，Taiwan, 29th May 2018

Selected Bibliography: “The 14th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition”, The Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition Committee, Japan, pg.28, Sept 2018