Kow Leong Kiang (b. 1970, Malaysia) has garnered much attention and success since winning the Grand Prize at the Philip Morris ASEAN Art awards in 1998. His depictions of nostalgic rural scenes of the east coast Malaysia are captured through a masterful feather-light rendering. He has held three solo exhibitions at Valentine Willie Fine Art in Kuala Lumpur and has participated in group exhibitions in Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Vietnam. In 2004, he was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Centre in the USA.