Cheah Thien Soong
{{Short description|Malaysian artist}}
{{family name hatnote|Cheah|lang=Chinese}}
{{Chinese
|s=谢忝宋
|p=Xiè Tiǎnsòng
}}
Early life and education
Dr. Cheah Thien Soong (born 1942, Negeri Sembilan, Malaya) is a contemporary ink-painting artist in Malaysia.{{citation |periodical=Malay Mail; Asia Africa Intelligence Wire |last=Hafizi |first=Amir |title=Visual poetry |date=2006-01-04 |accessdate=2008-03-10 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19908467_ITM}} Cheah is considered the second generation of Nanyang-style contemporary ink-painting artist. He graduated from Chung Hua High School in Seremban, Malaysia in 1959 before proceeding to Singapore's Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.{{citation|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-110173321.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517032205/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-110173321.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-05-17|title=Cheah's language of art|last=Samat|first=Hafidah|date=2005-06-18|accessdate=2008-03-10|periodical=New Straits Times}}{{citation|url=http://cheahthiensoong.googlepages.com/index_bio.htm|title=Biography|publisher=Personal webpage|last=Cheah|first=Thien Soong|year=2008|accessdate=2008-03-10}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} There, he studied both Chinese and Western painting under the tutelage of artists such as Chen Wen Xi, Choong Soo Peng, Chen Zhong Rui, Shi Xiang Tuo, and Georgette Chen.{{citation |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21960616_ITM |title=A feast of art, with food |periodical=New Straits Times; Asia Africa Intelligence Wire |date=2003-07-08 |accessdate=2008-03-10}} He held his first exhibitions in 1962, and has since won a number of awards from art institutes in Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. His paintings often include trees. From 1990 to 2002, he served as a lecturer at the Malaysian Institute of Art in Kuala Lumpur; he also returned to his hometown to found the Seremban Institute of Art. He received his doctorate from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico in 2002. As a result of a trip he took to Jiangxi in 2003, he has branched out from canvas and taken up the challenge of painting on porcelain, creating works with Malaysian subjects painted onto Jingdezhen clay.{{citation|periodical=New Straits Times|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82533556.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517032215/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82533556.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-05-17|date=2000-04-24|accessdate=2008-03-10|last=Ooi|first=Kok-Chuen|title=Cheah's porcelain challenge}}
Family
Cheah has two younger brothers, who both live in Guangxi, China; since 1991, he has gone to Guangxi every two or three years to visit them.{{citation|url=http://www.gxwenlian.com/index/wldt/zdhd/20071019/072847.asp|title=首届中国（广西）•马来西亚国际赏石及书画艺术邀请展在邕开幕 (First Guangxi-Malaysia International Stone and Painting Art Invitational Exhibition Opens in Yongning|last=Long|first=Juejue|date=2007-10-19|accessdate=2008-03-10|publisher=Guangxi United Arts and Literature Association|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108192458/http://www.gxwenlian.com/index/wldt/zdhd/20071019/072847.asp|archive-date=2009-01-08|url-status=dead}}
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