Chee-Keong Kung

Geometry and gestural mark-making are integral to Chee Kung’s practice, which is rooted in his training in art and architecture. He works with an evolving visual vocabulary informed by the cultural environment, observations from the natural and man-made environments, and memories of his upbringing in multi-ethnic Singapore. Kung is interested in the emotive resonance that grows out of the act of intent seeing and remembering. Created out of a process that is part discovery and part invention, his work navigates the spaces between light and shadow, depth and flatness, and motion and stillness.

Kung’s works are in private, corporate, and institutional collections, including The National Museum Art Gallery of Singapore and The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank. Born in Singapore, Kung studied art and architecture at the University of Houston and real estate at Cornell University. He lives and works in McLean, VA.