Eng Tay was born in 1947 in Kedah, West Malaysia. He moved to New York City in 1968 and studied at the Arts Students League, School of Visual Arts and Pratt Graphics Center between 1969 and 1978.

After two years of traveling and painting throughout South America and Asia, he settled in New York. He has exhibited extensively throughout Asia and The United States, and has become well known for his limited edition etchings, oils, sculpture and ceramics.

"Emotions, relationships, color, light, wind or sounds that I experienced last night or many years before, are the raw materials with which I try to create "new" moments - the images my etchings represent - rooted in memory." Eng Tay