Sebastian Mary Tay SSA (b. 1989, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with Master of Research and Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art. In the recent years, Tay’s works have been exhibited in the UK, Lithuania, Singapore, Malaysia, and China. Selected exhibitions include Something Above; Somewhere Beyond at FOST Gallery (solo exhibition, Singapore), Glasgow Open House Arts Festival (group exhibition, UK), Bus.Stop.Art (public installation, Singapore), Frame & Frequency (group exhibition, USA), Sandstorm in an Hourglass (group exhibition, Singapore), Utopia (group exhibition, UK), and The Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibitions. Tay’s works showed at The Royal Scottish Academy on multiple occasions; he also received the Royal Glasgow Institute prize and the Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award. In 2020, Tay partook in Meta Open Arts residency programme, where he made a site-specific photographic print measuring twenty-five metres and across three walls. In 2021, he was involved in a collaborative project between Meta Open Arts and Messenger in the making, and subsequent launching, of a 360° augmented reality filter, titled Seeking Starlight.

Various institutions have invited Sebastian for talks and guest lectures in recent years; they include City of Glasgow College (UK), The Royal Scottish Academy (UK), Mount Florida Studios (UK), The University of the West of Scotland (UK), DECK (Singapore), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore). Tay is currently an adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, and Nanyang Technological University. His research interests and teaching areas include art history, contextual studies, art theory, contemporary art practice, philosophy, critical theory, photography history, photography theory, photography practice, black and white darkroom photography, alternative processes.

Tay is an elected Professional Member of The Society of Scottish Artists. He is based between Singapore and Korea. 

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