Lok Ek Sem Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1956 -

Sem graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art at the now-defunct Kuala Lumpur College of Art. His first solo was at Galeri Maybank in 1994. From 1995 to 2000, he was with the Singapore-based Opera Gallery, and later his works are shown in the Artique Fine Art in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. Loh Ek Sem is known for his kampung denizens with tiny heads and disproportionately huge body frames and elongated limbs with everything crooked like the Crooked House nursery rhyme. He is especially active in solos during the 1990s, at Art Salon Kuala Lumpur in 1994 and 1996.