Lai Foong Moi, Crossing (Home Coming), 1964. Oil on canvas, 77 × 65 cm. Collection of Singapore Airlines Limited
Framed through the experience of “crossing(s)” as moments of transition, encounter and becoming, the exhibition on Nanyang Artist Lai Foong Moi (1931–1995) positions her practice as a site to consider how identity was pictured and lived in the 1960s in Singapore and Malaya – a productive period in her career which intersected with profound social transformation and national reimagination.
Although working within conventional genres of portraiture, still life, and landscape painting, Lai’s attention to subjects of gender, labour, and urban development offer a distinct perspective about modern life in Singapore during the immediate pre-and-post independence period.
Venue: City Hall Wing, Level 2, DBS Singapore Gallery
When: 14 Aug - 3 Oct 2026,
By: National Gallery Singapore
