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Chong Siew Ying was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1969. After studying at a local art college, she left Malaysia and enrolled at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Versailles, France in 1991. After graduating, she studied and taught at international printmaking centre Atelier 63 in Paris, while working as an artist and exhibiting in the city. She returned to Malaysia in 1998, holding her first solo show in Kuala Lumpur that year. She was artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan in 1999 and at the Vermont Studio Centre in the United States in 2001. Her career has spanned a large number of solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, as well as across Asia, Australia, Europe and the USA. Today she is based in France and Malaysia. A lyrical and elegant painter, her work is profoundly emotive, embracing broad themes such as nature, human relationships and the search for meaning in life.

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Chong Siew Ying is now in France, preparing for a solo exhibition with Galerie Deprez-Bellorget in Paris this September.

exhibition links

2004	Portraits, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur click here »

biography

Born, 1969, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
EDUCATION
1994-96	L’Atelier 63 ( Etching School) Paris, France
1991-94	L’Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Versailles, France
1988-90	P.J. College of Art & Design, Malaysia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005	Many Splendoured Things, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2003	Mirror’s Edge, Substation, Singapore
2002	Going Away, Coming Home, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2001	Freeman Asian Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Red Mile Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
1998	96/97, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
1997	Atelier D.Maraval; Bagnolet, France
	Gallery Cafe Panique; Paris, France
1996	Maison TCH'A, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005	Mind, Body & Soul, Wei Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
	The Power of Dreaming: Taman Sari, Gardens of Delight and Identity, Rimbun Dahan, Klang, Selangor
2004	Footsteps, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
	Portraits, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2003	Of Shadows and Images, Kunst Museum, Malmo, Sweden; Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.
2002	Works on Paper, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2001	Spring Dialogue, Lorimer Station Studio, Brooklyn, New York, USA
	Headlights, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
2000	Oil and Ink: Chong Siew Ying and Frederique Boumeester, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
	Rimbun Dahan Residency Exhibition, Rawang, Selangor
1999	FRANCASIA, Encounter of Asian Artists in Paris, Ariake Frontier Building, Tokyo, Japan
	Through Our Eyes, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur
	9th International Biennial Print Drawing Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
1997	4th Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Contemporain, Chamalieres, France
	Euro-Estampe 97, Biennial Prints of Europe, Lorient, France
	Gallery K. Trythall, Hvasser, Norway
1996	TRACE 96 5th Biennale International Contemporary Prints, Paris, France
	Sen’art 96, Savigny, France
1995	Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain
	Salon Contemporain, Paris, France
1994	11th Salon De Vernon, Museum of Vernon, France
1993	Bienalle De Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland
	Galerie De La Geole, Versailles, France
	Artiste Dans La Rue by Youth Association of Versailles, Versailles, France