Chua Mia Tee - Artist Info

About Chua Mia Tee

  • Biography

    As one of Singapore’s most acclaimed oil painter, Chua’s stature as an artist locates him not far from Singapore’s pioneer generation of artists, like Georgette Chen and Cheong Soo Pieng. His virtuosity in oil painting is apparent through the many historical depiction of Singapore’s pre-modern landscape scenes, as well as portraits of Singapore’s key political figures. Like fellow artists Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Wen Hsi, Chua’s portrait of Yusof Ishak is in daily circulation through the current portrait series currency notes of Singapore. Between 1999 and 2001, Chua completed a number of paintings featuring the subject matter of kois.

    One of such painting is featured on the cover of the book titled, “Chua Mia Tee...

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