Tan Wee Lit graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and has exhibited extensively locally and internationally as a practising artist.
He is a recipient of numerous study awards and scholarships from the National Arts Council Singapore and the then Media Authority Singapore for his undergraduate and graduate studies.
As an artist, Wee Lit has also worked on multiple commissions for private and public collections, amongst them public works for City Developments Limited at Raffles Place and for the Land Transport Authority at Haw Par Villa MRT station and for the National Gallery.
As an active practitioner, Tan Wee Lit had his first solo exhibition for 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and was also awarded the Graduate Fellowship upon graduation. He won the Grand Prize for the 3rd Singapore Sculpture Award in 2007 and participated in various exhibitions including Identities vs Globalisation (Berlin) The Same Rain, The Same Wind (Chiangmai National University), We Who Saw Signs (ICA Singapore), Fifth Outdoor Sculpture Biennial (Baltimore), Urban Contemporary Art Trail (Newcastle, UK) and Emerging Artists in Illinois 2007. He held his first solo exhibition In the Deadpan Bed Pan at Sculpture Square (Singapore) 2014.
As an educator, Tan Wee Lit has lectured at various tertiary levels in Singapore with LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Polytechnic amongst others. His appointments included being a Visiting Assistant Professor (Arts and Culture Management) with the Singapore Management University and a Supervisor for the Fine Arts master’s programme conferred by Goldsmiths at LASALLE. He has also conducted training workshops and seminars for fellow educators, while sitting on various consultative panels with the National Arts Council and National Gallery as an external panellist.
He was conferred the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in 2012.