Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most accomplished artists working in watercolour. For over twenty years his subject has been the people of Malaysia and Southeast Asia and the rich textures of life in this region.

Born in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia in 1959, Chang Fee Ming is a self-taught artist who began his career in the early 1980s. Since winning the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award in 1984, he has gone on to gain many accolades both locally and internationally, and became a Signature Member of the National Watercolour Society (USA) in 1994. He has exhibited widely in the Southeast Asian region, with solo shows in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Bali, and participating in numerous major exhibitions in Malaysia, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, China (Tianjin and Shanghai), Indonesia, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Sweden and Brazil. His works have also appeared at auction at Christie’s and Sotheby’s over the past seven years.

In 1995, he published The World of Chang Fee Ming (Ooi Kok Chuen & Garrett Kam) and in 2000 published The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming (Christine Rohani Longuet).

His Mekong series, based on many years of research and travel, toured Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Chiangmai in 2004. He is currently researching the region around the source of the Mekong, for a body of work to be shown in 2008.

The artist is based in Kuala Terengganu, spending part of the year in Bali and much of the rest traveling through Asia.

Swahili Coast, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur; Art Singapore click here »

Swahili Coast, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Art Singapore 2005, Suntec Singapore

Touring Solo Exhibition : Mekong
February, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; May, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand;
August, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia.

Journal: Small Works & Sketches, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur

Portraits of Terengganu, GaleriCitra, Kuala Lumpur

The Road to Mandalay, Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Jakarta

Exotic Tropicals, GaleriCitra, Kuala Lumpur

2nd Chapter, GaleriWan, Kuala Lumpur

Chang Fee Ming: First Solo Exhibition, GaleriCitra, Kuala Lumpur

Ulek Rasa, Galeri Reka, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

You Are Here, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Identities: Who We Are, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

Prelude to a Journey, Vanessa Art House, Jakarta

Asian Watercolours 2002 Indonesia: 15th Exhibition of the Asian Watercolour Confederation, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta

Menjejak Kembali: 20 years of Malaysian Art at the Australian High Commission, Australian High Commission,
Kuala Lumpur

Kembali Ke Bali: 4 Malaysians in Bali, Valentine Willie Fine Art at Ary’s Warung, Bali, Indonesia

Images of Malaysia and India, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

Asian Pacific Watercolour Exhibition, Chung Cheng Gallery, Taipei

Kebangkitan Indonesia Baru, Centre for Strategic & International Studies, Jakarta

Images of Malaysia, Sao Paulo: 2001, Cultural Space “Eugenie Villien” Faculdade Santa Marcelina, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Flowers for the New Millennium, The Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

Our World in The Year 2000, The Windsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition, Mall Galleries, London, UK; World Trade Centre, Stockholm, Sweden and United Nations Headquarters, New York

Landskap ke Landskap, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur

Asian Pacific Watercolour Painting Exhibition, CKS National Gallery, Taipei

Cross-Century Asian Pacific Watercolour Exhibition, Chung-Cheng Gallery, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei

The 15th World Hakka Convention of Art & Calligraphy, Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Imbasan Bakat Muda Sezaman 1974-1999, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

Asian Pacific Watercolour Exhibition, Taipei, Country Cultural Center, Taipei

Asian Watercolours ’98 Seoul: 13th Exhibition of the Asian Watercolours Confederation, Cho Sun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul

The Journey of Malaysian Art, in Conjunction with APEC Business Summit Malaysia 1998, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Landscapes of Malaysia: An Exhibition of Watercolour Paintings by the Malaysian Watercolour Organization in Sweden & Malaysia. Malmo Museum, Sweden and Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur

Asian Wind Now ’97, Funabashi Municipal Art Gallery, Funabashi City, Chiba, Japan

Asian Watercolours ’97 Singapore: 12th Exhibition of the Asian Watercolour Confederation, Tourism Court 1, Singapore

Images of Malaysia, 19th International Brussels Independent Film Festival Exhibition, Brussels

Asian Watercolours ’95 Bangkok: 10th Exhibition of the Asian Watercolour Confederation, The National Gallery, Bangkok

NWS 73rd Annual Travel Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, USA; Rock Springs Community Fine Arts Centre, Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA; Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah, USA; Sun Cities Art Museum, Sun City, Arizona, USA and Bade Museum, Berkeley, California, USA

Malaysian Watercolours ’94, MWO’s 2nd Annual Exhibition, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur

Tresors 1994, World Trade Center, Singapore

Gebyar Seni ’94, Galeri Mon Décor, Jakarta

Asian Watercolours ’94 , Kuala Lumpur: 9th Exhibition of the Asian Watercolour Confederation, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur

Positively a Life (World AIDS Day), GaleriWan, Kuala Lumpur

16 Distinctive Brushes, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta

9th International Watercolour Exhibition of Asia, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai

Books

Puspaseni, Kuala Lumpur: Bank Negara Malaysia, 1989, pp 108-109

Neka, Suteja, Pengantar Koleksi Lukisan Museum Neka, Bali: Yaysan Dharma Seni Museum Neka, 1992, pp. 133-134

Ooi, Kok Chuen, and Garrett Kam, The World Of Chang Fee Ming, Terengganu: Chang Fee Ming, 1995

Dermawan, Agus T., A Collector’s Journey –Modern Painting in Indonesia, Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies and Museum Neka, 1996, pp 126- 127

Schlemm, Betty Lou, and Sara M. Doherty, Best of Watercolour: Painting Texture, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, an imprint of Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997, pp. 60

Schlemm, Betty Lou, and Sara M. Doherty, Best of Watercolour 2, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, an imprint of Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997, pp. 19

Neka, Suteja, and Garrett Kam, The Development of Painting in Bali, 2nd Edition, Bali: Yayasan Dharma Seni Museum Neka, 1998, pp.118-119

Marzuki Ali, Christine Rohani Longuet and Chang Fee Ming, Poems of Duyung Poems of the People, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1999

Kam, Garrett, Neka Art Museum, 2nd Edition, (Japanese Version translated by Chika Yamakami), Bali: Neka Art Museum, 1999, pp. 74-75

Tan, Chee Kuan, Treasury of Malaysian and International Art, Penang: The Art Gallery, 1999, pp. 84-85

Lopez, Nicoline, and Manon Lopez, The Art of Living in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: NGM Publishers, 2000, pp. 216, 218, 221, 225

Longuet, Christine Rohani and Chang Fee Ming, The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming: Asia in Watercolour, Terengganu: Teratai Arts and Crafts, 2000