Rick Leong

Visual Arts

Rick Leong is a painter who brings a contemporary approach to traditional Chinese imagery. A third generation Chinese- Canadian, he paints delicate large-scale canvasses that often incorporate snakes, dragons, and landscapes – images used by ancient Chinese artists. Leong gives life and animation to these quiet scenes, with trees, fungi, mosses, and rocks morphing into skeletons of animals or graffiti-like script. His Dancing Serpent in Dawn’s Quiet was purchased by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Represented by Parisian Laundry, his work has been shown across Canada in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Leong was born in Burnaby, BC, obtained a BFA at the University of Victoria, and came to Montreal to experience life in a large city and study at Concordia University, where he obtained his MFA in 2007. (PF)

Hush, 2010, oil on canvas