Wyn-Lyn Tan is a visual artist whose practice encompasses painting and installation. Her practice explores the relationship between landscape, perception, and the unseen rhythms of nature. Rooted in the sensorial intensity of the tropics yet shaped by years of living and working in the Northern Hemisphere, including the Arctic, her work embodies a dialogue between two distinct worlds of light, climate, and atmosphere.

Tan’s practice is grounded in contemplative processes that often engages with ideas of impermanence, movement, and transformation within natural environments. Drawing from disciplines such as geology, ecology, and philosophy, she reflects on our innate cultural and emotional interconnectedness to nature. Guided by Eastern philosophies, particularly the paradox of qi as both everything and nothing, her practice is a continual investigation of absence as presence. She returns constantly to themes of transience and negative space—where absence is not void, but resonance; erasure not loss, but trace.

Her works unfold as psychological terrains—spaces where light, memory, and the unseen converge in a search for the intangible. Her surfaces often evolve through layered gestures of addition and erasure, allowing time, rhythm, and intuition to shape the work. Executed with a sensibility that borrows from Chinese ink traditions, her work hovers between landscape and abstraction.

Often informed by time spent in remote 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 liminal, and the in-between.

Tan holds an MFA from the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has been awarded the Kunstnerstipend and Statens utstillingsstipend grants (2017, Norway), as well as artist residencies with Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2024), The Arctic Circle Residency (2011), Vermont Studio Center (2008) and Fiskars Village, Finland (2007). Her work has been exhibited across Europe, Asia, and the U.S., with solo presentations at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (2023, Singapore), Østfold Kunstsenter (2018, Norway), Art Basel Hong Kong (2017), and Inside-Out Art Museum (2014, Beijing). Her works are held in the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum and other notable public and private collections. Recent commissions include a new media installation for the National Gallery Singapore’s Children's Biennale 2025, and an upcoming public artwork for the Land Transport Authority of Singapore. Tan is represented by FOST Gallery in Singapore, where she lives and works.