Ying Yi Chua

Ying Yi is an artist and professional photographer based in Singapore.

He has specialised in photography for more than 15 years, focusing on architectural and urban subjects, where he has images published in editorials including The Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper* magazine, Phaidon and worked with various architects, real estate and financial firms. He holds a MA in Fine Arts and a BA in Architecture.

His current interest lies in the exploration of the meaninglessness of images in relation to the saturation of images in our digital age where images has become one of our fundamental forms of communication, perhaps a 3rd language. He focuses on time-based daily/yearly works with diverse themes ranging from the skies to intimate landscapes to local Singapore urbanscapes. He explores issues in relation to consumerist attitudes, everyday spaces and the existential nature of the meaninglessness in contemporary cultures. He is an avid vintage motorcyclist, and views the machine as an extension of his body that brings different perspectives of the urban landscapes through sights, smells and sounds that influences his artworks.

His art work "Urbanscapes: Contemplations on the Meaninglessness of Looking" is currently exhibiting in Palazzo Bembo at Venice, Italy at the 6th edition of the ECC Architecture Biennial Exhibition, Time Space Existence from 20th May to 26 November 2023, during the Venice Architectural Biennale.