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Tay Mo-Leong
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Born in Penang in
1938, Mo-Leong is a full-time artist and presently the chairman of
the Art Gallery Committee, Penang as well as a member of the State
Museum Board. He is also the president of the Penang Watercolour
Society since 1985.
He was educated at
the Ching Ling Secondary School, Penang and Provincial Taipei Normal
College (Fine Arts:1957-60). He has held numerous one-man
exhibitions in Penang (1961), British Council, Kuala Lumpur (1965),
Samat Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (1966), France-Nell Gallery, Tokyo
(1966), Miami Museum of Modern Art, Florida (1968), Adelaide (1974),
Balinese Series at E & 0 Hotel, Penang (1979), and 'BP' Series,
Penang Museum and Art Gallery (1989).
He has participated
in group exhibitions all over the world including Group Exhibition,
Taiwan (1958)), Royal Institute Galleries, London (1959), Le
Salon Societe des Artistes, Paris (1960), Cite International d'Art
Exhibition, Paris (1967), Malaysian Art at the Sao Paola Biennale,
Brazil (1969), Traveling Exhibition of Malaysian Art at 'Man &
His World' Exhibition, Montreal (1970), Salon Internationale d'Art,
Basle, Switzerland (1985), Contemporary paintings of Malaysia,
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena,
California (1988), The First Exhibition of Federation of Asian Art
Association, Taiwan Museum of Art (1988) and Titian 2 Exhibition,
National Art Gallery, Bangkok (1989), 9th International Watercolour
Exhibition of Asia in Shanghai (1994), International Watercolour
Exhibition of Asia in Malaysia (1996). |
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Besides winning
several awards in local art competitions for his batik and
watercolour paintings, he won the winner's prize for a sculpture
competition, Gama Complex (1980), and third prize for sculpture
competition for E.P.F. Building Mural, Kuala Lumpur (1984). He
also executed public sculptures for the Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
and Gama Complex, Penang.
His paintings
have been collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia,
the Penang Museum and Art Gallery, Universiti Sains MalaysiaArt
Gallery and also individual and corporate collectors in Malaysia
and abroard.
His works are
featured in 'Contemporary Artists of Malaysia', Dolores Wharton
(1976), The Crafts of the Modern World, Rose Sluika (1968),
Malaysian Batik Creating New Traditions by Sarah Arney, and other
publications.
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