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Long Thien Shih
1946, Malaysia
Long Thien Shih
1946, Malaysia

Long Thien Shih (b. 1946 Selangor, Malaysia) is a senior artist and printmaker. He studied at Atelier 17 and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1966 under a French government scholarship, before moving to London to further his studies at the Royal College of Art. He has won awards such as First Prize in the 1961 Young Malayan Artists Competition in Kuala Lumpur and the 1992 Prints Prize in Salon Malaysia. Thien Shih is known for exploring subjects and themes ranging from eroticism to environmental concerns as well as his careful observations of local and international culture and politics.