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Gan Siong King
1975, Malaysia
Gan Siong King
1975, Malaysia

Gan Siong King (b. 1975, Segamat, Malaysia) is a contemporary visual artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His evolving practice is multi-disciplinary and revolves around unpacking orthodoxies in art and social structures as a way to question, reflect and imagine different ways of seeing and being. He is currently exploring ideas about "exhibition-making", particularly on developing exhibition as a medium in itself. Gan graduated in Fine Arts from the Malaysia Institute of Arts (MIA) in 1996, majoring in oil painting. From 1998 to 2000, he was an artist assistant to the Malaysian contemporary artist, Wong Hoy Cheong. He has produced several solo exhibitions to date, the most recent including The Pleasures of Odds & Ends (2014, Feeka, Kuala Lumpur), Meeting People is Easy (2017, Artist's Studio, Kuala Lumpur), and All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2019, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur). His works have been displayed in group exhibitions in Malaysia, Tokyo, Bucharest, Indonesia, Singapore, and Japan.