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About the Artist

Chong Siew Ying (b. 1969, Kuala Lumpur) is a Malaysian painter best known for her dynamic gestural brushstrokes and expressive compositions. These paintings embrace broad themes such as nature, human sentiments, human connection, homeland and belonging, as well as references to literary themes and concepts. Chong left Malaysia for France in 1990 to pursue her studies in Fine Art. There, she enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts de Versailles and later at the Parisian printmaking centre, Atelier63. Returning to Malaysia in 1998, she held her first solo show in Kuala Lumpur in the same year. From 2000–2001, she travelled to the United States of America where she spent 7 months in New York City and 2 months at the Vermont Studio Centre in Vermont. She returned to Paris in 2001 and travelled back and forth between Paris and Kuala Lumpur until 2011. She has since moved back permanently to Kuala Lumpur. Her career has spanned a large number of solo and group exhibitions in Asia, as well as across Europe and the USA.