David Chan (b.1979)

Singapore-based painter David Chan renders realistically painted animals, humans and hybrids against monochromatic backgrounds of intense blues, purples, yellows and pinks. With well-received exhibitions spanning various Asian countries, Chan's idiosyncratic works exemplify the artist's perspective on a rapidly globalizing and biomorphic world. Using striking visual language to comment on various issues in contemporary society, particularly genetic modification and the advances of science, the art of David Chan is immediately recognizable and unique. The artist's bright palette and signature style of incorporating finely rendered human-animal hybrids result in captivating works that tease and ch...