Yau Bee Ling (b.1972)
Born in Klang, the artist graduated with a full scholarship from the Malaysian Institute of Art in Fine Arts in 1995. Yau Bee Ling’s works often come from a period of her life that is immensely personal and meaningful. Be it family traditions, becoming a mother for the first time, the rediscovery of her femininity, even the tragic loss of her sister in which her works served as a spiritual healing. Marrying the pragmatic with the romantic, Bee Ling continues to explore the broad gambit of the human experience through the autobiographical themes of family and tradition set against the familiar motifs of home and food and precious heirlooms.
Yau Bee Ling has exhibited extensively in exhibitions across China, Pakistan, Singapore, Bangladesh, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia and represented Malaysia at the Asian Art Biennial in Dhaka, Bangladesh and at the Fukuoka Triennale. Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous private and public collections including Mulpha, Maxis Berhad and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.