Malaysian Art Series : Chin Kong Yee

Chin Kong Yee (B. 1973) graduated from the Central Academy of Art in 1990. He has had an illustrious 25 year journey as an artist, which has seen him traverse the world for inspiration for his work. Chin Kong Yee’s paintings display his continuous search to capture his own experience of a time and place. By combining the present, past and future through a depiction of two perspectives (realistic and unrealistic) his paintings have an exciting, dramatic edge about them that draws the viewer into his space.