Artist biography

             
Dance of Apsaras
A COLLECTION OF ASIAN CEREMONIAL TEXTILES
MINI RETROSPECTIVE BY YEOH JIN LENG
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM CHELSEA DAYS C1958-1962 BY YEOH JIN LENG

 
       Yeoh Jin Leng
1929 Born in lpoh, Malaysia

Education

1940 - 49 Anderson School, lpoh

1952 - 53 Malayan Teachers' College, Kirkby Liverpool

1957 - 61 Chelsea School of Art, London

1957 - 61 NDD - National Diploma in Design

1957 - 61 Chelsea Diploma for Painting

1962 Institute of Education, London University ATD Art Teacher's Diploma

1958 Cautauld Institute's Art Lectures on Renaissance Art


Awards, Prizes & Grants

1952 Sir Gerald Templar's Award to Outward Bound Mountain School, Eskdale, UK

1969 Special Prize for Painting, Salon Malaysia

Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Prize for Painting, Tokyo Biennale

1970 Guest Artist to the Federal Republic of Germany Guest Artist to U.S.A.

1972 A.M.N. (Ahli Mangku Negara) Malaysian Government Award for Services to Art

1990 Australian Culture Award

Guest Artist to Paris

1992 Minor Prize, Sculpture Section, Salon Malaysia PJC (Pingat Jasa Cemerlang, Terengganu)

1994 KMN

1998 Anugerah Kesenian Perak


Selected Exhibitions

1963 - 65 Malaysian Art Council Exhibitions

1965 Solo Exhibition, British Council, Kuala Lumpur

Australian Waratah Spring Festival Group Exhibition

1966 Commonwealth Arts Festival, UK and Ireland

1967 Malaysian Travelling Art Exhibition to Hamburg, Rome, St. Etienne, and Paris

Cathay Pacific Travelling Art Exhibition to Asian Capitals 1969 "SALON MALAYSIA" National Art Gallery
Young Contemporaries Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Malaysian Art Exhibition to Sao Paolo Biennale

1972 ISPPA, Osaka, Japan

1978 Indian Triennale

1984 Two Malaysian Potters, British Council Hall, Kuala Lumpur

1986 Contemporary British Malaysian Art Exhibition "Side-by-Side", National Art Gallery

1988 1st Asian Art Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan

1989 "Clay as an Expressive Medium", National Art Gallery

1990 Arts Fest Terengganu - 11 Malaysian Artists "Clay, Cloth and Wood" British/Malaysian Artists' Exbibition, National Art Gellery

"Malaysian Art" Travelling Art Exhibition to 4 German Cities 1991 /92 SALON MALAYSIA, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

1992 "ASEAN SELECTIONS", Singapore

Solo exhibition, "Earthscapes" - Clayworks, Wan Gallery 1996 Art and Thoughts 1952-1 995, Retrospective exhibition, National Art Gallery

1997 Solo exhibition, "Trapped" - Exhibition of the Trapped Series

2000 Trans(formations) - Sculpture Square

Projects

1971 Ministry of Education - EXPO PENDIDIKAN

1976 - 82 National and International Quran Competition

1985 Endau-Rompin Project for Artists

1989 Global Cooperation for a Better World (largest painting)

1994 Belum Rainforest Project for Artists

1995 Tropical Wood Project


Selected Representation

1967 Malaysian Ministry of Culture's Artist Representative to St. Etienne and Paris for the Malaysian Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture

1971 Japan Education Foundation's Study Tour of Japanese educational institutions

1979 Malaysia's Representative to UNESCO "Child as Artist" Seminar, Jakarta

1980 SEMEO SPAFA Project "Teaching Technigues for Art Teachers" Manila

1981 UNESCO Conference "Artistic and Cultural Heritage" Bangkok

1982 International Association of Artists' Congress, "Art for a Better World" Helsinki

1985 4th National Ceramic Conference, Melbourne, Australia

1987 ASPACAE Conference on Modernism at Kanazawa, Japan

1988 ASEAN Conference on Vision and Values, Jakarta

1989 AIAE/SEAPAC Congress on Art Education, Darwin ASPACAE Conference on "Spanning Cultures" Colombia, Missouri

1990 French Government Cultural Exchange Programme to Paris

1993 ASEAN Conference on Indeginous Raw materials Manila

1993 ASPACAE Bangkok

1996 Study Tour, Museums & Art Galleries Peking, ShangHai

1997 Study Tour, Museums & Art Galleries London

1998 Southeast Asian Textiles Bangkok