Denise Jillian Tan is a young emerging Singaporean artist who completed her degree in Fine Art at Lasalle College of the Arts. Denise was nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2012 and won the category of Top 20 Singapore Artists in 2012, where she also exhibited alongside the Top 30 Category in Asia at Marina Bay Sands Singapore, as well as an auction with Christies as the official auctioneer. She has also exhibited in group shows at The Arts House, ICA Gallery at Lasalle College of the Arts, Alliance Francaise de Singapour and Vue Privee and had her third solo show at Artesan Gallery in December 2014.

Denise is also a part-time lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts and the owner of The Fort Studios, an art studio in Singapore focusing on art education.

“I use my canvas as a means for a stage, engulfing in issues of reality, digesting, reinterpreting and presenting it to the audience as a fantastical tale to be contemplated.”