Born in 1974, Wong Perng Fey is an independent artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His chosen subject is the Malaysian landscape and oil paints are his favourite medium. The process of his painting forms an emotional bridge between man and his surroundings, exploring questions of belonging, memory, inhabitation, change and permanence. He has exhibited several remarkably sensitive bodies of work, and continues to probe the language of painting to find new powerful interpretations of his subject.
Perng Fey graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1998 on scholarship and has been a full-time artist ever since. His works have been shown in Kuala Lumpur's major galleries and collected by Malaysian's National Art Gallery and Galeri Petronas.
Perng Fey believes, "Memory is made up from moments that are lost. I paint for memory's sake, about things that are gone, about loss, capturing moments that flash through my mind, moments that will not stay still, because we are constantly moving."
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