Hello, I’m Justin Tiang Pong Tan. I’m a Singapore-based visual artist, world builder, and writer of long captions. I’m pledged to Wonder, which I’m able to find just about everywhere. The need to preserve aesthetic traditions also informs my work (I’m particularly invested in architecture, urban planning, and classical music). Otherwise I’m given to wandering, churchy choirs, and bug / herp terrariums. You can connect with me and my work through this Linktree page.

A.I. DISCLAIMER: Nothing that you see in my personal work uses generative A.I. This decision dramatically limits the amount of work I can produce within a lifetime, but it does preserve as much decision-making on my part as possible. Some might call such decision-making ‘art’, after it has been filtered through the lens of the medium I choose to communicate with (which is drawing and painting). Besides, someone needs to make the imperfect but original content that feeds the Machine.

Personal Work:

Conventions / Events:

  • ASYLUM STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL XI: Panellist and Exhibitor

  • SILWERSTEAM 2019 (ESKILSTUNA, SWEDEN): Exhibitor

Commercial Work:

  • Concept Artist / Art Team Lead at Cesil & Co (November 2020 - June 2026)

  • Concept / background artist at Robot Playground Media (December 2018 - May 2019)

  • Concept artist and game writer at Vividthree Productions, SG (October 2017 - March 2019)

  • Concept artist / Illustrator at FutureFire Ltd (June 2017 - February 2018)

  • Freelance visual artist since 2013. Partners and clients include Tusitala Books, Heartbeat Project, FutureFire Ltd, Forged Interactive,

    Megacorp, NUS Margins, and VividThree Productions

Feel free to e-mail for availability.

Education:

  • FZD School of Design: Dip. Industrial Design (2016)

  • National University of Singapore: B.A. (Sociology, English Literature) (2015)

 

Email: tiang.pong@gmail.com

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Finding Calais and Pastel Skycubes are lifelong, rain-or-shine commitments of mine that could use every bit of support I can get. If you feel you connect with their mission, concepts and ideas, do consider donating. Any contribution is deeply appreciated and deeply useful — it goes directly towards making more work.

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Nedry's Tree. Another Jurassic Park paint study :) I was five when I first watched this film. I remember being rooted on the couch for full minutes after the screen went dark and the VCR clicked silent.. just trying to take it all in, I suppose. I do
[Paint study]:~ I always wondered where this tunnel led. My experience with Singapore’s Night Safari suggests an air-conditioned viewing hut overlooking an expansive exhibit, replete with benches, infographics, and vending machines. One can dre
Small comforts on quiet days... . Several hundred thousand years into the future, colonists on a stormy, watery world seeded with fabricated (‘concrete’) continents will come to build an identity around the aesthetic vocabularies of the l
Many unsettling events around us all lately. Here’s some quiet mist, cold water, and fantasy architecture. Typical stuff from my project #findingcalais, which stays sort of the same :) . . . . . #tiangpong #steampunk #steampunktendenc
Practice for #pastelskycubes :) There was a great fleet of these classic TIBS buses by Singapore’s Kallang River, largely obscured by trees when seen from the elevated tracks. I never had much to do with them, but they left an impression in the
EAVES of LAMPENBOTANIA. One of the grand, perennial draws of deep Calais is, that when the mists part you cannot fully know what quaint new wonders might be disclosed. Here we glimpse the edge of Lampenbotania - the cool, damp, rocky underworld that
I've been wanting to draw a hornbill in connexion with #findingcalais for a very long time, but never got down to it. Now I have! In the world of Finding Calais, a great seabird (or, in exotic circumstances, a hornbill) bonds with an excursion airshi
The Old City lives..! ~~ (this was inspired by the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument of Berlin, which survived the war remarkably unscathed, only to be demolished in 1950. It is to be replaced, at a cost of 17 million euros, by a giant ‘banana seesaw&rsq

~ JTTP, 2026 ~