Rick Leong

Leong obtained his BFA from the University of Victoria. Leong obtained his master's degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2007. His thesis was immediately acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, affirming his emerging practice.

Leong uses the visual language of the landscape in his art practice as a means to explore psychological, phenomenological and ontological themes. He is intrigued in the relationship between these fields of study in terms of how we construct and use visual language through gestalt, in the nature of perception and the dynamic between the objective and the subjective, and how these relationships form such a curious combination of similar yet diverse arrays of experience.

Notable exhibitions include Realities Folies at Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia (2015);[1] Nemophily at Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Ontario (2014);[2] Sleepwalking Daydreams at Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Quebec (2014);[3] Sublimation of Self at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2012);[4] Hybrid Vigour at Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2012);[5] The Phenomenology of Dusk at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, (2012);[6] Space & Time at Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2011); La terre est bleue comme une orange at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2010); The Third Meaning at RH Gallery, New York (2010); The Wilderness at McClure Gallery, Montreal (2010); I am Nature at Parisian Laundry, Montreal, and La biennale de Montréal, (2009). In 2008, he was a finalist in the Royal Bank of Canada's Painting Competition, touring at venues such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant (Toronto), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver).

Leong's work can be found in private and corporate collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Canadian Art Foundation, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[7] as well as the permanent collection at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Other collections include the Aldo Group, Collect' Art, Senvest and Caisse de Depot.