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Born 1977 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Known for: Multi panels of expressive paintings, narrative urban scenes, racial issue themes.
Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor. He has been awarded a... Read full biography
Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor. He has been awarded a number of awards since graduating such as the Platinum Award by the One Academy, KL, a winner of the MEA... Read full biography
Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor. He has been awarded a number of awards since graduating such as the Platinum Award by the One Academy, KL, a winner of the MEA Award (Malaysian Emerging Artist Award) in 2009 and the Bronze award for the Graduate Creation Award, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. He is also an art lecturer at The One Academy of... Read full biography
Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor. He has been awarded a number of awards since graduating such as the Platinum Award by the One Academy, KL, a winner of the MEA Award (Malaysian Emerging Artist Award) in 2009 and the Bronze award for the Graduate Creation Award, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. He is also an art lecturer at The One Academy of Communication Design in Selangor. A disciplined and highly skilled painter, Chin Lee’s occasionally multi-paneled paintings display complex compositions and amplified perspectives, usually borrowing traditional compositional formulas. His expressive and... Read full biography
Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor. He has been awarded a number of awards since graduating such as the Platinum Award by the One Academy, KL, a winner of the MEA Award (Malaysian Emerging Artist Award) in 2009 and the Bronze award for the Graduate Creation Award, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. He is also an art lecturer at The One Academy of Communication Design in Selangor. A disciplined and highly skilled painter, Chin Lee’s occasionally multi-paneled paintings display complex compositions and amplified perspectives, usually borrowing traditional compositional formulas. His expressive and painterly works depict a wide-array of multi- racial urban scenes and shared social spaces such as Southeast Asian food stalls an... Read full biography
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Gan Chin Lee (b. 1977, Kuala Lumpur) is an emerging painter trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at the One Academy of Communication Design, Selangor.
He has been awarded a number of awards since graduating such as the Platinum Award by the One Academy, KL, a winner of the MEA Award (Malaysian Emerging Artist Award) in 2009 and the Bronze award for the Graduate Creation Award, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.
He is also an art lecturer at The One Academy of Communication Design in Selangor.
A disciplined and highly skilled painter, Chin Lee’s occasionally multi-paneled paintings display complex compositions and amplified perspectives, usually borrowing traditional compositional formulas.
His expressive and painterly works depict a wide-array of multi- racial urban scenes and shared social spaces such as Southeast Asian food stalls and coffee shops that are densely populated by characters that seem indifferent to each other. There is usually a sequential narrative in the pictures and deciphering time is expanded due to the usage of polyptychs and panoramic viewpoints. Inner-city anxiety, restlessness and hardship are captured and hyperbolized in his enigmatic and disorientating pictures.
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Website of Richard Koh Fine Art, Mar. 2019Biography from Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
Gan Chin Lee, a member of the ‘f Klub,’ has emerged in recent years as a major figurative artist focusing on anxieties of urban living, the quiet women, common people in food outlets outside and the migrant community.
A finalist in the Saksi competition in 2003, he got into the winning circle big-time when he was one of the five who won the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award (MEAA) in 2009, the others being Mohd Al-Khuzairie Ali, Shaifuddin Mamat a.k.a. Poodien, Samsudin Wahab and Bakir Baharom.
After his Diploma in Illustration at the One Academy of Communication Design, he went to China for his Advanced Studies in Mural Painting (2005) and Masters in Fine Art (2008, where he also won the Graduate Creation bronze prize) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
n 2010, he won the Platinum Award by the One Academy, where he lectures now. In the Henry Butcher (Young Contempo) auction, Chin Lee’s work, Status Anxiety VI (2010), from the Soliloquy exhibition, sold for a premium of RM7,150 and in the March 2015 auction, Standing Lady With Flower, RM2,688.