The ExtraOrdinary is a series of paintings of everyday objects which the artist encounters in his daily life.

"Our life is a series of assumptions and beliefs about what we see, who we are, and how we should go on living. We take certain things for granted simply because we don’t question them. Sometimes we take the wrong things for granted and we will never know if the life we lived is real or just an illusion."
- Boo Sze Yang

Boo graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore in 1991; completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the University of Reading, UK in 1995; and received his Master in Arts Degree from Chelsea College of Art & Design, the University of the Arts London, UK in 2005. He was a full-time lecturer at NAFA in the Department of Fine Art for 8 years and later Head of Department before he left to practice art full time in 2009.

Boo has held ten solo exhibitions and represented Singapore in numerous group exhibitions in Japan, China, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia and UK. He was recipient of the Asian Artist Fellowship Award 2010/2011 sponsored by the Freeman Foundation for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. In 2003 he was awarded Juror’s Choice for the Philip Morris Singapore-ASEAN Art Award and the Platinum Award in the UOB Painting of the Year competition in 2009. His works are in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore), United Overseas Bank (Singapore), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), and Yingu Art Mansion (Beijing).