Chang Fee Ming- Mekong: Exploring the Source

Artist Profile & Bibliography

Born in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia in 1959, Chang Fee Ming is a self-taught artist who began his career in the early 1980s. Since winning the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award in 1984, he has gone on to gain many accolades both locally and internationally, and became a Signature Member of the National Watercolour Society (USA) in 1994.

Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia's most accomplished artists working in watercolour. For over twenty years his subject has been the people of Malaysia, Southeast Asia and Asia.

He has exhibited widely in the Southeast Asian region, with solo shows in Kuala Lumpur, Chiangmai, Singapore, Jakarta and Bali, and participating in numerous major exhibitions in Malaysia, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, China (Tianjin and Shanghai), Indonesia, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Sweden and Brazil.

In recent years, his Mekong series, based on seven years of research and travel, toured to Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, National Art Gallery, Jakarta and Chiangmai University Art Museum, Chiangmai in 2004. In 2005, he travelled to the Swahili Coast in Africa, making a series of small works and studies. From 2005 through to 2007 he has been researching and working on the source of the Mekong, in Yunnan, Tibet and Qinhai.

Chang Fee Ming is based in Kuala Terengganu, spending part of the year in Bali, and much of the rest traveling through Asia.

Bibliography

Puspaseni, Kuala Lumpur: Bank Negara Malaysia, 1989, pp 108-109

Neka, Suteja, Pengantar Koleksi Lukisan Museum Neka, Bali: Yaysan Dharma Seni Museum Neka, 1992

Ooi Kok Chuen, and Garrett Kam, The World Of Chang Fee Ming, Terengganu: Chang Fee Ming, 1995

Dermawan, Agus T., A Collector's Journey -Modern Painting in Indonesia, Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies and Museum Neka, 1996

Schlemm, Betty Lou, and Sara M. Doherty, Best of Watercolour: Painting Texture, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, an imprint of Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997

Schlemm, Betty Lou, and Sara M. Doherty, Best of Watercolour 2, Massachusetts: Quarry Books, an imprint of Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1997

Neka, Suteja, and Garrett Kam, The Development of Painting in Bali, 2nd Edition, Bali: Yayasan Dharma Seni Museum Neka, 1998

Marzuki Ali, Christine Rohani Longuet and Chang Fee Ming, Poems of Duyung Poems of the People, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1999

Kam, Garrett, Neka Art Museum, 2nd Edition, (Japanese Version translated by Chika Yamakami), Bali: Neka Art Museum, 1999

Tan Chee Kuan, Treasury of Malaysian and International Art, Penang: The Art Gallery, 1999
Lopez, Nicoline, and Manon Lopez, The Art of Living in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: NGM Publishers, 2000
Longuet, Christine Rohani and Chang Fee Ming, The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming: Asia in Watercolour, Terengganu: Teratai Arts and Crafts, 2000

Yong, Beverly, and Wong Hoy Cheong, Chang Fee Ming: Mekong, Kuala Lumpur: Valentine Willie Fine Art, 2004