Anthonie Chong’s early figurative works translate complex and powerful emotions. Painted in the artist’s iconic style of this period, bold and powerful strokes are executed with a rough impasto technique. The essence of people and their psychological states are captured though his evocative and fluid works. Anthonie Chong graduated in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in 1991. He won the Philip Morris Asean Art Award, Malaysia in 1998. In 2000, he switched to caricature-like iconography fusing eastern surrealism with digital technology, namely his e-monk creations which morphed, and was represented in three series – Community, Gaia and Mechanism. He had his first solo at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang in 1994. He had worked as an art teacher (Art Design, Kuala Lumpur), graphic designer, illustrator and lecturer at Art Direction (1992-1995), before helping out a relative in his business. His art prices have been soaring in recent auctions.