Born in Malaysia in 1964, Luise Fong arrived in New Zealand as a child. She studied art at the Elam School of Fine Arts, majoring in printmaking. An abstract artist, she held her first solo exhibition in 1989, and in 1994 won a scholarship to the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne. In Melbourne she taught at RMIT and continued to exhibit her work in New Zealand and Australia, as well as travelling and exhibiting in Frankfurt and Hong Kong. In 2000 Luise Fong returned to New Zealand, and was appointed Lecturer in Painting at Elam School of Fine Arts where she remained until 2005.
The earliest auction listing we have for Luise Fong is in 1996 and in total 152 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 70 (46%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $13,802 for Smoke sold by Dunbar Sloane in May 2005. This year 5 works have been offered for sale. Works by Luise Fong are held by the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum Of New Zealand and Christchurch Art Gallery.
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