List of Malaysian artists
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This is a list of Malaysian artists known for the creation of art
works that are primarily visual
or graphic
in nature, including media such as drawing
, illustration
, sculpture
, painting
, photography
, and printmaking
. This list excludes musical artists.
The artists are arranged in alphabetical order by their surname, date of birth and death and profession.
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
works that are primarily visual
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
or graphic
Graphic arts
A type of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of art forms. Graphic art is typically two-dimensional and includes calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, lithography, typography, serigraphy , and bindery. Graphic art also consists of drawn plans and layouts for interior...
in nature, including media such as drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
, illustration
Illustration
An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, and printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
. This list excludes musical artists.
The artists are arranged in alphabetical order by their surname, date of birth and death and profession.
List of artists
- Ahmad Zakii AnwarAhmad Zakii AnwarAhmad Zakii Anwar is a well-known Malaysian artist.thumb|right|Zakii in his studio-Solo exhibitions:*Jakarta*Manila*Bangkok*Hong Kong*Singapore*New York*Kuala Lumpur-Group Exhibitions:*Kuala Lumpur...
(born 1955) - painter - Andie TongAndie TongAndie Tong is a comic book artist, known for his work on books such as Spectacular Spider-Man UK, The Batman Strikes! and Tangent: Superman's Reign....
- comic book artist - Billy TanBilly TanBilly Tan Mung Khoy, commonly known as Billy Tan, is a Malaysian comic book artist.-Early ife:Billy Tan grew up in Malaysia and moved to the United States in 1989 to study business at the University of Kentucky. He began working as a penciler for Image Comics in the 1990s.-Career:Tan became the...
- comic book artist - C. N. LiewC. N. LiewC.N. Liew is a Malaysian Chinese painter and calligrapher best known for his creation of "surrealligraphy", a fusion of Western surrealism art and calligraphy. He is the protege of Zen artist Bo Yuan and Tan Swie Hian, Member-Correspondent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France...
- calligrapher, painter - Cheah Thien SoongCheah Thien SoongDr. Cheah Thien Soong is a renowned contemporary ink-painting artist in Malaysia. 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...
(born 1942) - contemporary ink-painting artist] - Germaine KohGermaine KohGermaine Koh is a Malaysian-born internationally active Canadian artist. At the age of two she emigrated to Canada.She is a conceptual artist working out of Vancouver, B.C., self-described as having "no fixed address" whose art encompasses the use of everyday objects and familiar concepts into...
(born 1967) - conceptual artist - Khalil IbrahimKhalil Ibrahim (artist)Khalil Ibrahim is a Malaysian artist. He works with drawing, watercolour, and acrylic. His styles ranges from realist to abstract.Ibrahim's artistic career has spanned over 50 years...
(born 1934) - studio artist - Leon LimLeon LimLeon Lim is an artist, designer and photographer who was schooled in Kedah and Penang and lives in New York City. He has been profoundly deaf since birth and his deafness developed his strong sense of seeing. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, New...
- artist, designer, photographer - Mohammad Nor KhalidMohammad Nor KhalidDatuk Mohammad Nor Khalid, more commonly known as Lat, is a Malaysian cartoonist. Winner of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2002, Lat has published more than 20 volumes of cartoons since he was 13 years old. His works mostly illustrate Malaysia's social and political scenes,...
(born 1951) - cartoonist - Muid LatifMuid LatifMuid Latif is a Malaysian-based web designer and digital artist who actively promotes the arts of the South East Asia from Batik and other elements in his digital artwork.-Biography:...
(born 1979) - digital artist - Poesy LiangPoesy LiangFounder of Helping Angels. A Malaysian-Taiwanese artist, writer, poet, multidisciplinary designer, jeweller, entrepreneur, philanthropist and motivational speaker who survived 3 spinal surgeries and battled paralysis caused by a rare case of benign tumour that kept recurring within her spinal cord...
(born 1975) - artist, writer, philanthropist - Sonny LiewSonny LiewSonny Liew is a Malaysian-born comic artist/illustrator based in Singapore. He is best known for his work on Vertigo Comics' My Faith in Frankie together with Mike Carey and Marc Hempel, and Marvel Comics' "Sense and Sensibility" adaptation....
(born 1974) - comic book artist - Syed ThajudeenSyed ThajudeenSyed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib was born in 1943 in Alagan Kulam, a village not too far from the temple city of Madurai, South India, where his Malaysian-born parents lived during the Second World War...
(born 1943) - painter - Yong Mun SenYong Mun SenYong Mun Sen . Born Yong Yen Lang in Kuching, Sarawak. He changed his name to Yong Mun Sen in 1922.He is widely known as the Father of Malaysian Painting...
(1896 - 1962) - painter - Yeoh Kean ThaiYeoh Kean Thai-Achievements:Yeoh Kean Thai is a former winner of the Philip Morris Art Award, Freeman Fellowship and most recently the prestigious Commonwealth Arts Award.He has developed a unique aesthetic language using metal and metal aesthetic...
(born 1966) - fine artist - Yusof GhaniYusof GhaniYusof Ghani, born in 1950 in Johor, Malaysia is a Malaysian painter, sculptor, writer, professor and curator. His career spans over three decades which resulted into diverse series that deals with Southeast Asian motifs with an Abstract Expressionist approach...
(born 1950) - painter, sculptor, professor