Tan Wee Lit graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art with Distinction) in 2002, conferred by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, via LASALLE College of the Arts. Awarded an Overseas Scholarship Grant by the Media Development Authority Singapore, he went on to obtain a Masters of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and was among the select few to be awarded a Graduate Fellowship upon graduation.
As an educator, Wee Lit has lectured extensively at local tertiary colleges like LASALLE College of the Arts, Nanyang Polytechnic and 3D Sense Media School. He has also conducted several workshops at secondary schools in Singapore. He has continued to sustain a consistent practice locally and internationally. Wee Lit has been invited to showcase his work for “12x12 New Artists/New Work” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and was one of five artists to represent Singapore in the exhibition "Identities vs Globalisation" in Bangkok and Berlin, featuring artists from all South East Asian countries. Recent exhibitions also include the “Fifth Outdoor Sculpture Biennial” in Baltimore; “Plaay- Urban Contemporary Art Trail”, Blackburn, UK; and "Emerging Artists in Illinois 2007", Illinois, USA.
Wee Lit is currently working on a public sculpture for East Coast Park, commissioned by City Developments Limited after having won the Grand Prize for the Third Singapore Sculpture Award and a large scale permanent artwork for the West Coast MRT station, commissioned by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore.