Chris Tan
Chris Tan is a pop artist currently based in Malaysia. He self-learned art and received prizes for his innate talent since young. After earning his Master of Arts from University of Hertfordshire, UK, he used to serve as a brand designer, art director and lecturer in Singapore, China and Malaysia.
Being an active participant in the local art scene, he had his first expressionist solo show Nephesh in ZHAN Art Space, Malaysia in 2020, and also participated several local and oversea group shows, such as TAKSU's Locals Only, HOM Art Trans Open, Main-Main's Human Forms, etc. He is also the recipient of various design Awards, including Adobe Achievement International Awards and HiiiBrand Awards.
Inspired by an incident of his three year old kid putting her head into a paper bag, he designed BEZ - a troop of camouflaged aliens came from outer space that always shyly cover their heads in the special paper bags. Under influences of pop culture, street art and art history, Chris uses BEZ as the symbols of curiosity to mess around in pop culture and contemporary art scenes. Grew up in 80s, BEZ themed works not only reflect his observations on current art scenario, but also subconsciously reflect his utmost personal childhood memories.
As an art history learner, his BEZ artworks always present a sense of unique fusion that mixed from pop culture and art history. Besides creating oil paintings consistently based on BEZ theme, he is going to launch his a series of BEZ art toys soon. He strongly believes that exploration in various materials and various realism would keep him walk further!
