Woon Tai Ho

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Woon Tai Ho
Born26 July 1958
MediaCorp, National Gallery Singapore

Woon Tai Ho (

Channel NewsAsia
.

Early life

Woon grew up in

MediaCorp Raintree Pictures CEO and Homerun Asia founder Daniel Yun.[1]

His father, a chef, died when he was in secondary school, and his mother tried various ways to care for her two sons and two daughters, including running a food stall.

Woon attended Telok Kurau Secondary School and Hwa Chong Junior College on scholarships, and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science in 1982.

In his youth, Woon was an aspiring painter who sold a work when he was 16 years old.

Career

Woon began his career as a producer in

Television Corporation of Singapore, producing programmes like Depth of Field: A Portrait of Chua Soo Bin
(1989), A Changing Beat (1990) and War in the Gulf (1991).

In 1999, he launched

MediaCorp News.[2]

In November 2008, Woon released a non-fiction book on the life and work of Cultural Medallion recipient Tan Swie Hian, To Paint a Smile.

In 2009, he left MediaCorp and in June of the same year, founded media consultancy Green Orange.

In February 2013, Woon released his debut novel Riot Green, set in the cut-throat world of South-east Asian art.[3] Riot Green is in the process of being adapted into a movie.[4]

In August 2013, Woon was appointed as Director for Media and Marketing for the National Gallery Singapore.[5] In January 2015, Woon, in a shock move, quit.[6] Woon is currently a senior media consultant at communications consultancy RHT ARC Comms & Relations.[7]

Woon has also contributed articles on art and travel to

The Business Times and The Straits Times, and helped put together an exhibition of early Keith Haring drawings in 2012.[8]

In 2024, he won the inaugural Dr Alan H.J. Chan Spirit of Singapore Book Prize for his biography of artist Lim Tze Peng, Soul Of Ink: Lim Tze Peng At 100 (2021).[9]

Personal life

He is an art collector, counting the works of Roland Ventura and Tan Swie Hian as part of his collection.[10]

Works by Woon Tai Ho

References

  1. ^ Anjum, Zafar (10 August 2013). "Woon Tai Ho: My words are my paints". Kitaab. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  2. ^ Lee, Janice (20 January 2002). "Reluctant Switch". MediaCorp. TODAY. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  3. ^ Nanda, Akshita (7 March 2013). "Art imitates life for ex-TV chief". Singapore Press Holdings. The Straits Times. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  4. ^ Woon, Tai Ho. "2015 may indeed be a year of possibilities". Facebook. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  5. ^ "Former MediaCorp News CEO Woon Tai Ho appointed director for media and marketing at National Art Gallery". MediaCorp. TODAY. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  6. ^ "High-level staff changes at the National Gallery Singapore just months before it opens". Singapore Press Holdings. The Straits Times. 2 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  7. ^ "RHT Comms & Relations announces the addition of media veterans P.N. Balji and Woon Tai Ho as senior media consultants". RHT Comms & Relations. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  8. ^ Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia (8 November 2012). "Keith Haring's Early Drawings Get First Showing". Blouin ArtInfo. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  9. ^ Hoo, Shawn (23 April 2024). "Biography of 102-year-old artist Lim Tze Peng wins richest Singapore book prize worth $30,000". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  10. ^ River, Jordan (March 2013). "SILLAGE IN SINGAPORE – INTERVIEW WITH WOON TAI HO, AUTHOR OF RIOT GREEN". The Fragrant Man. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
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