Euan Heng

Euan Heng (born 1945) is a Scottish born painter and printmaker, living and working in Melbourne, Australia.

Life and work

Euan Heng was born in 1945, in Oban, Scotland.

He has a Diploma in Art (DA) and Post Diploma from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland and MA from RMIT, Melbourne.

Since 1974, he has held twenty-four solo exhibitions in Australia and Scotland and participated in over seventy curated and juried group exhibitions in Australia, throughout Asia, Britain, Europe, Canada and the USA. His work is represented in public and university museum collections in all states of Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery. Illustrated essays, articles and reviews on his work have been published in all major Australian newspapers including the serious art’s press including Art Forum International, USA, Asian Art news, Art and Australia and Art Monthly Australia.

Other activities of the artist include teaching and he is currently Associate Professor/ Honorary Research Fellow in Fine Art at Monash University, Melbourne. He has participated in visiting artist/lectureships and residences in Australia and overseas including, in 1999, the Australia Council Residency at the British School at Rome. [cite web
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In 2004 he received the Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools Distinguished Research Award.

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