Born in 1917 in Amoy, China, Cheong Soo Pieng was the youngest of seven children. Supported by his parents, he enrolled at the Xiamen Academy of Fine Art in 1933, graduating in 1936. He then pursued ...

May 8, 1940 – May 31, 2021 Pieng Phengsy was born in Sayaboury, Laos. She was a primary school teacher who taught children of all ages with love and compassion. A mother, a sister, a grandparent, ...

MOUNTED by artcommune gallery, the current retrospective survey of pioneer Singapore artist Cheong Soo Pieng makes clear not just the sustained quality of his ink works created from 1949 to 1983, but ...

HE PAINTED on jute, gunny sack, straw and other unusual South-east Asian materials. He drew on Chinese, Malay and Western aesthetic traditions and synthesised them into his own distinctive style.

For many Singaporeans, Taiwan feels familiar through shared tastes in food and shopping, a common language, and a similar urban sensibility. “We have to formulate our way of life, taking what is best ...

Pieng Phengsy OBITUARY UPDATE Service will now be at 1 PM on Saturday, June 5th at the Vincent Funeral Home, 120 Albany Turnpike in Canton. Please visit Pieng’s “Book of Memories” at ...

Cheong Soo Pieng was a Chinese-born Singaporean painter. Best known for his stylized depictions of Malay and Balinese women, he worked in a unique aesthetic that blended Hindu, Chinese, and Modernist ...

Artcommune Gallery presents Cheong Soo Pieng: A Retrospective, an exhibition that looks back on Singaporean artist Cheong Soo Pieng’s artistic journey from the 1940s to 1980s. When we think of the ...

Explore a curated selection of 30 paintings by artist Cheong Soo Pieng, completed from the 1950s to the 1980s. Visitors can venture through the space segmented into three sections that will answer the ...