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Salleh b Japar

Salleh Japar trained at the nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts in Singapore and graduated with a Diploma in Fine
Arts. he went on to obtain his bachelor of Fine Arts
with Distinction from Curtin university of Technology in
Western Australia in 1990. A lecturer at his Singaporean
alma mater between 1990 and 1995, Salleh Japar was
appointed member on Course validation as well as
to the Overseas Student Council following his Pg Dip
in Art education at the university of Central england,
united Kingdom, in 1996. now Lecturer & Director of ..................................................................................................
Foundation Studies, LASALLe-SiA College of the Arts in
Singapore, Salleh has also been a volunteer art tutor
at the handicap Welfare Association and an Assistant
Curator of Art at the national Museum in Singapore.
The receipient of many grants and scholarships for
his art and discipline, Salleh has participated and
exhibited in more than 60 programmes and exhibitions
in Singapore and internationally. he has been a guest
curator in exhibitions other than his own and sat
on Panels of Assessments and judges for visual arts
programmes. in his own art, his progressive focus
appears to tackle the genre of installation art. Overall
howver, Salleh Japar is an accomplished draughtsman Kezhan, Chen
and has participated in studios in countries like Japan,
Australia and india. For 8 years, Chen Kezhan studied Chinese painting and
Salleh b Japar, born in Singapore in 1962, lives and works in Singapore
calligraphy with Fan Chang Tien, and subsequently with
Chao Shao-an. he continued his studies in France, taking
up art and music in Paris, where he was awarded a Silver
Medal at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1985. Since
1978, Kezhan has held more than 50 solo and group
exhibitions in Singapore and around the world. For his
work toward charitable causes in 1999, he was accorded
a Patron of the Arts status by the Ministry of information
and the Arts in Singapore. This Young Artist Award
winner has represented Singapore during the Taegu-Asia
Arts exhibition in Korea, showcasing Fine Contemporary
Chinese Paintings. he was also the sole representative
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for Singapore at the Krasnoyarsk interplein of Artists of
the Asia Pacific Countries in Moscow, 1993.

Chen Kezhan’s work is collected by Cambridge
university in the united Kingdom, Central Plaza in hong
Kong, the China Chess Federation in beijing, China; the
Krasnoyarsk v.i. Surikov Arts Museum of the Russian
Federation and numerous corporations in Singapore
such as Mobil, esso, American express bank, ReFCO. The
Singapore Art Museum owns works by Chen Kezhan.
Kezhan, Chen, born in Singapore in 1959, lives and works in Singapore

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