Soh Boon Kiong is a celebrated artist renowned for his captivating abstract works. His art carries a poetic and musical quality, drawing inspiration from the natural world, the shifting seasons, Chinese calligraphy, and classical music. His graceful compositions embody a sense of hope and resilience, echoing the enduring spirit of human history and civilisation. Soh Boon Kiong studied in Paris, France from 1988 to 1993. Through his studies at Beaux - Arts de Paris, France, he embraced the western way of making and looking at paintings. He was invited as Artist in Residence of University of Malaya from 2010 to 2014. His major solo exhibitions include Alliance Française, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2022), Beirut Art Fair, Lebanon (2018), Institut Français de Maurice, Mauritius (2017), and Formosa Art Show, Taipei, Taiwan (2015). Since his first solo exhibition in 1990 at Empress Place Museum in Singapore, Soh has held numerous solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, and art fairs from Malaysia to New Zealand, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, Mauritius and Lebanon. His recent solo was held at Askeri Gallery, Moscow, Russia from November 2024 to January 2025.