Wu Tsai Yen

Place: Nanan (Lam Ann)

Born: 1910

Death: 2001

Biography:

Wu Tsai Yen was a Chinese artist born in 1910 in Nanan (Lam Ann), Fujian, China. He graduated from Xinhua Academy of Art and moved to Singapore in 1938. He worked at Hokkien Huay Kuan before taking up a teaching position at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Wu Tsai Yen developed a special painting style known as the 'Wu School of Finger Painting in Singapore'. He passed away in 2001.