In Selamat Datang ke Malaysia, a group of Malaysian artists, all born after Independence, offer Malaysians and outsiders alike their insights into this interesting nation - its successes and failures, its contradictions and eccentricities, its growing pains.

From photography and video to charcoal drawing and sculptural installations, this exhibition presents the exciting range of approaches being used by Malaysian artists today.

The artists selected come from diverse backgrounds, many have studied abroad and returned to to practice. A number have studied in Australia, like generations of fellow Malaysians. Each has been both a participant and keen observer of the unfolding drama of our developing nation.

Internationally-recognised artist Wong Hoy Cheong who first made his mark charting the migrant history of Malaysia, today he takes us on a tour of our suburban dreams.

Yee I-Lann, who represented in Contemporary Commonwealth exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2006, gives us a history in studio photographs of a generation of Malaysians growing up.

Anurendra Jegadeva’s “Family Album Thesaurus” offers a potted guide to our different communities and their social and culinary customs.

Leading painter Jalaini Abu Hassan explores the mysteries of the Malay world and its resonance in the cultural imagination.

Itinerant urban artist Emil Goh celebrates the cultural binding power of ‘Mangllish’ (Malaysian English).

Nadiah Bamadhaj looks at our architecture and what it symbolizes in terms of national development.

Sculptor Sharmiza Abu Hassan explores the resonance of the notion of our homeland.

Younger artists Roslisham Ismail (Ise), Vincent Leong and Sharon Chin draw from their personal experience of negotiating their way in today’s Malaysia, its popular culture, its changing social fabric.

Curated by Beverly Yong.