Michael Wong Loi Sing

My name is Michael Ricardo Pierre Wong Loi Sing
I was born in Paramaribo, Suriname south America; I live in France now, in the south of France.
I started as an autodidact, and after having exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Holland in 1995, in a group exhibition 20 years of art from Suriname, by curator Rudi Fuchs, I went back to Holland to get my masters degree in Art.
I paint dream like paintings which are often visible from four sides. Sometimes two paintings which are a dip tic become a multiple dip tic because more sides correspond with more sides.
I paint nature, women, people, stories, fantasy, and i try to create a new way of presenting an iconography or symbolism in my art. one that is new and refers to my origins.
South America has a very old iconography, although it has been forgotten or because it originates from an oral tradition, it stays abstract.
Suriname as a country exists only for about 500 years, its art as a comparative image to Europe's art is very young. It's petroglyphs are ancients of course, also its amerindian culture and images.
I am a mixture of many cultures , Caribbean indian, African, Caucasian, Jewish, Indian, Portugese, and Chinese.
the origins of my art stem from the contine...

Masters in Fine Art Hunter College New York and Frank Mohr Institute Holland
pedagogical diploma from Suriname
Training by my father Emanuel F. Wong Loi Sing

Suriname, France, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, French Guyana, Los Angeles California, New York, Michigan USA