Boo Sze Yang is a Singaporean artist recognized locally and internationally for his artistic achievements and contribution to art education. He was awarded the NAFA’s Distinguished Alumni Medal in 2017. He was a recipient of prestigious art prizes, including the Asian Artist Fellowship Award, Philip-Morris ASEAN Art Award and UOB Painting of the Year Competition. Boo remains actively involved in his practice and continues to mentor young artists at the Academy.
Boo’s brushwork involves pushing and pulling wet paint on canvas, a distinct technique compared to his earlier renderings of Angkor Watt, malls and cathedrals. This painting conjures an imagined land, tranquil mountains and rivers engulfed by urban development, represented by scaffolds, platforms and steel beams that reflect the modern and the natural world. Both spaces rely on and inform each other. Boo also uses Western and Chinese landscape painting approaches, demonstrating his experimentation and rationalisation of two different cultures.
