Wong Keen (b. 1942, Singapore - ) grew up in  a Chinese literati environment in Singapore and as a child studied drawing and painting under pioneer artists Liu Kang and Chen Wen Hsi. He was an acclaimed teenage painter in the early Singapore art scene and in 1961 held his first solo exhibition at age 19. Having enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, he moved to America for his formal art education that same year, making him the first Singaporean and among the earliest of Chinese artists to venture into the flourished post-war American art scene. Having spend over 50 years in the US, Wong Keen registered a plethora of artistic influences that melded the fast-paced American art scene. His prolific oeuvre, which encompasses oil, ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media since the 1960s to the present, is a powerful embodiment of the delicate expressivity of Chinese ink wash aesthetics and Western inventive approach towards form and colour.