Gan Tee Sheng (b. 1984, Kluang, Malaysia) is a contemporary painter whose practice centers on the psychological residue of lived experience—emotions and memories that persist after their narratives have dissolved. Rather than depicting events or stories, Tee Sheng’s work visualizes mental states shaped by time, perception, and unresolved affect.
His paintings operate as psychic topographies, composed of ambiguous, organic forms that accumulate, overlap, and drift within indeterminate spaces. These forms function as emotional fragments: half-digested sensations, distorted recollections, and lingering impressions that resist clarity or classification. What remains is not memory as fact, but memory as texture—felt, yet unstable.
Grounded in psychological introspection and informed by phenomenological thought, Tee Sheng approaches memory as a process of reconstruction rather than retrieval. Trauma, intimacy, desire, and confusion are treated not as subjects to be illustrated, but as internal conditions that manifest visually through abstraction and bodily suggestion.
Through this practice, Tee Sheng invites viewers into a quiet but charged space—where the past has settled into unfamiliar forms, and emotions continue to exist without fully revealing their origins.