2026 ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere Longlist
2025 Hilton Hotel’s invitation to design an art installation in their premise
2025 Jackson’s Art Prize Extended Longlist (Top 3,168 out of 12,964 entries from 129 countries)
2025 Featured in the International Digital Group Exhibition by Artio Art Gallery
2025 Winner of the Din Tai Fung UK ‘Bao Bao’ Art Competition
2025 Featured in Issue 56 of the online art magazine ‘Haus A Rest’
2024 Winner of the Liberty’s People’s Choice Award at the Lloyd’s Art Group Exhibition
2023 Completed the Pandemic Portrait series for the Bank of England Museum
2022 Getting to the C-suite Programme by Women on Boards
2021 HM Treasury Financial Services Group Achievement Award
2021 Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Lloyd’s Art Group Charitable Exhibition
2020 Pandemic Portraits - charitable project featuring Bank of England colleagues
2020 Bank of England Governor’s Recognition Scheme - Annual Awards 2020
2019 100-mile Prudential London-Surrey charitable bicycle ride for Cancer Research UK
2017 Winner of the Aon Prize for the 2017 Lloyd’s Art Group Autumn Exhibition
Milestones
Education
2014 Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries
2010 Professional Diploma in Architecture
2007 BA Architecture with First Class Honours
2006 Top student in architecture school
2006 The Trent Architecture and Design Travel Award
2005 First Year Prize in Architecture (Top student in architecture school)
2004-2007 University of Sheffield Scholarship
2004 Cambridge A-Level (Further Mathematics A; Mathematics A; Physics A; Chemistry A)
2004 Highest average score in Malaysia in Cambridge A-Level subjects
2004 Highest score in Malaysia in Cambridge A-Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics combined
2004 ABRSM Grade 8 piano in music performance
2002-2007 Awarded the Malaysian Public Service Department (JPA) Scholarship
2001 Awarded the ASEAN scholarship, Singapore
Publications
2026 “Drawn to Possibility - Actuary or Artist? Yap Pau Ling spent years caught in the conundrum of identifying as either one of the other. Now she feels the full benefits of being both, and how they complement each other” (Horizon section in the July/August issue of The Actuary magazine) featuring a personal reflection of being an artist and actuary.
2026 “Traces of Humanity brings cultural exchange of identity, history and memory to Gibraltar” by Maria Jesus Corrales (3 July issue of The Gibraltar Chronicles) featuring ‘Continuum’ and ‘Traces of Humanity’.
2026 “Actuary in the Frame” (Member News in the May/June issue of The Actuary magazine) featuring ‘Still Depth’ solo exhibition in Kensington and ‘Traces of Humanity’ exhibition in Margate and Gibraltar.
2026 “Traces of Humanity” exhibition catalogue | cover image from ‘Continuum (Fragment II)’
2026 “Yap Pau Ling at Khaw Gallery” (Spring/Summer 2026 issue of the Kensington and Chelsea Review) featuring ‘Still Depth’ solo exhibition in Kensington and ‘Traces of Humanity’ exhibition in Margate and Gibraltar.
2020 “In the Frame” (June issue of The Actuary magazine) by Pau Ling Yap and Paolo Cadoni. Article on the International Association of Insurance Supervisors reforms for the supervision of internationally active insurance groups.
2014 “Non-modelled Risk - a guide to more complete catastrophe risk assessment for (re)insurers”. Designer of the non-modelled risk icons for the Association of British Insurers’ publication.
2010 “Learning from Delhi – dispersed initiatives in changing urban landscapes” by MITCHELL M. Investigated cultural factors in rapid urbanisation in South Delhi where settlements are constrained by scarce resources. Extract of research into the relationship between social gender structure and spatial organisation was published within the section on “Chirag Delhi: The Conglomerate Order within the Hybrid South Delhi Landscape”.
2007 "Computation of Reverberation Time in Large Atrium Spaces". 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) | Madrid, 2-7 September 2007 | YAP, Pau Ling; MENG, Yan; KANG, Jian.
2007 "Acoustics in Large Atrium Spaces". 14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV) | Cairns, Australia, 9-12 July 2007 | KANG, Jian; YAP, Pau Ling; MENG, Yan; CHEN, Bing.
