My work is focused on the environment, the human reactions, especially critique on the fixed idea and symbolic matters in the social structure in daily life. I have explored ways to present the various issues of contemporary society in photographs, installations & collage as well as other materials that manifest my thoughts.

Tan  Ru Yi  was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1973. She received B.F.A. Sand M.F.A. in Sculpture from Nagoya Zokei Graduate School of Art & Design ,Japan ( in 2005 & 2007 respectively).Major solo exhibitions include , The stars seem so different, Shalini Ganendra Fine Art , Petaling Jaya ,Malaysia ( 2016),  Picnic, CCC, Shizuoka, Japan (2015) and The Growth Project-New Creature to NANA, Mie Center for the Arts, Tsu ,Japan ( 2013). She is currently living and working in Shizuoka, Japan. Selected participations are  Foreign Chinese in Contemporary Art - AICHI Triennale 2, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya , Japan (2010) and Aichi Art Mori - Toei cho Project – Aichi ,Japan (2009) .

She currently lives and works in Shizuoka, Japan.