His first solo exhibition came in 1960 at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
[1] Yeo is born to an optician father and housewife mother, and has 12 siblings.
[citation needed] He enrolled in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts[2] from 1958 to 1960, where he studied with the artists Georgette Chen and Cheong Soo Pieng.
[citation needed] In 1983, he came second in Singapore's UOB Painting of the Year competition.
In 1984, he received the Cultural Medallion from the National Arts Council, Singapore.