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Tsai Horng Chung
1915 - 2003, Malaysia
Tsai Horng Chung
1915 - 2003, Malaysia

Tsai Horng Chung 蔡洪鐘 (b. 1915-2003, Putian, Fujian Province, China) was a Chinese-Sarawakian artist, educator and poet. In 1938, he studied at the Shanghai Art Academy before emigrating to Sibu, Sarawak to be reunited with his family and begin his teaching career. During his training, Tsai was greatly inspired by his two teachers Wang Geyi and Ne Yide, who instilled in him a strong foundation in both Chinese ink painting techniques and Western painting approaches. Through his life and career, Tsai had amassed a prolific body of work, inclusive of watercolour, oil and Chinese brush paintings. More importantly, he had - like many of his Nanyang contemporaries - combined and transformed the various pictorial influences from both East and West to reflect his identity and role in post-war Malaysia. His work has been shown in notable exhibitions such as Pertumpuan: Senusa Sejiwa (2014) at Galeri PETRONAS, and The Nanyang Show (2016) at the Visual Arts Centre, Singapore. Tsai has profoundly impacted the artistic life of Sarawak and was presented with a posthumous exhibition, Rediscovering Tsai Horng Chung, at the National Art Gallery in 2005.