Cheong Soo Pieng
钟泗宾
Born	1917 Amoy,China
Died	1 July 1983 (aged 66)  Singapore
Nationality	Singaporean
Education	Xiamen Academy of Fine Art
Known for	Oil painting,Watercolour,ChineseInk and wash painting
Movement	Modernism, Nanyang art style
Awards	1962:Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal) by the Government of Singapore

Cheong Soo Pieng (simplified Chinese:钟泗宾;traditional Chinese:鍾泗賓;pinyin:Zhōng Sì Bīn;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Tsing Sì-pin) was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and a driving force to the development ofModernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore. He was also known for his signature depiction ofSoutheast Asian indigenous tribal people with elongated limbs and torso, almond-shaped faces and eyes in his paintings.

Cheong was born the youngest of seven children inAmoy, China. His parents were neutral to his choice of education, when Cheong took to studying art at the Xiamen Academy of Fine Art in 1933. In 1936 Cheong graduated and attended Xinhua Academy of Fine Art in Shanghai for further studies, only to have his education cut short with the breakout of theSino-Japanese War and the school destroyed by Japanese invaders in 1938. Cheong returned to his alma mater to teach art, and pursued his painting passion in watercolours due to scarcity of oil paint materials. In 1942 Cheong held his first solo exhibition of watercolor works. In 1945 Cheong left Mainland China for Hong Kong and relocated to Singapore in late 1946 where he would be a lecturer at theNanyang Academy of Fine Arts for the next 20 years.^[1]

In 1955 Cheong Soo Pieng, along with five other artistsChen Wen Hsi,Chen Chong Swee,Lim Hak Tai, Tay Wee Koh, and Suri bin Mohyani were invited to showcase their artworks in England, funded by fellow artist and arts patron Ho Kok Hoe. The exhibition was officially opened by theDuchess of Kent.^[2] In 1962, the Government of Singapore awarded Cheong Soo Pieng theMeritorious Service Medal. Cheong died on 1 July 1983 due toheart failure.

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• Chen Wen Hsi
• Chen Chong Swee
• Georgette Chen
• Lim Hak Tai
• Liu Kang

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• "In Art Exhibit, Singapore Honors a Son of China" article by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop inThe New York Times 6 October 2010

• 1917 births
• 1983 deaths
• 20th-century Singaporean painters
• Chinese emigrants to Singapore
• Singaporean artists
• Singaporean painters
• Singaporean people of Hokkien descent

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