AAAM Committee – Helen Guek Yee Mei

Helen Guek Yee Mei is a Malaysian artist, educator, and Sunway University lecturer who explores identity, memory, and human existence through painting and installation. With a BFA from the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts and an MFA from Sultan Idris Education University, she combines material experimentation with conceptual inquiry.

She has been exhibited extensively in Malaysia and internationally, including solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in China, Australia, Europe, and East Asia. was Malaysia’s representative to the Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh in 2001. She was the recipient of the Fukuoka International Open Show bronze prize, the Strover Award for Excellence, and an honourable mention for the Philip Morris Malaysia Art Award. Through her practice, she challenges fixed notions of identity and examines the fluidity of self-perception in contemporary society.