AAAM Committee – Denis Chai Kah Yune

Denis Chai Kah Yune, was born in Malaysia, and graduated from Kuala Lumpur College of Art (KLCA) which majored in the Department of Fine Arts.. Denis Chai held three individual art exhibitions in 2011, 2014 and 2022 respectively in Malaysia and it went down a storm. His artworks were selected for the Biennale held by International Watercolor Society (IWS) of Canada, Thailand and Hong Kong in 2016; Fabriano in Acquarello International Exhibition in Italy year 2017, “Chasing Dreams In Deep Blue”, Qingdao International Master Artists Invitation Exhibition, China in 2024, “The Charms of Beijing”, China in 2025.

This pandemic enlightens the different thoughts in him, so he started to attempt another style of drawing and discover another breakthrough or possibility. In his new creations, dots, lines, blocks and textures of wood are what he favours when it comes to expressing the ‘collision’. He did not bring back the original appearance of the place; yet he presented the changes of the place in different times based on his own memory, and even mingle some common memories together in his paintings. To create a strong contrast in his artworks, nostalgic and high-chromatic tones are the elements he used this time, thereby displaying the immense differences between cultures.