Tan Tong - Artist Info

About Tan Tong

  • Biography

    Tan Tong lived from 1942 to 2013. Tong was given a retrospective by the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) called Homage To Tan Tong: His Life And Times, at its Kuala Lumpur headquarters from Dec 17, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012. This follows another major exhibition, Homage To Picasso, also hosted by SGM, in 2006. Tan Tong was given a French Government scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris, in 1964-1969, and he graduated with a double diploma (Painting and Drawing) in 1974 and 1975.

    In 1974, he won the Fondation Rocheron Award at ENSBA. He won the Consolation Prize for Painting at the National Art Gallery in 1991. Altogether, he had held 17 solo exhibitions since his first...

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