Born in 1943 in Singapore, Ang Ah Tee graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1962, specializing in Western painting. A versatile artist, Ang is proficient in watercolour, oil and acrylic. Since 1980, he has had more than 10 solo exhibitions, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Singapore and internationally. He was the recipient of the National Day Art Exhibition Award (1978) and the Cultural Medallion (2009), awarded by the government of Singapore. Ang, who is known for his lyrical interpretations of Singapore’s urban landscape, depicts the old with the new in ‘Singapore Scene’ by juxtaposing the old shophouses that line the once important Singapore River with the OCBC Centre, the tallest skyscraper in Southeast Asia in the late 1970s.
