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Lee Long Looi is known for his distinctive portraits of damsels in a rural setting. The artist emphasizes the curves of the body with lyrical lines. It portrays Lee Long Looi's skill in portraying the human figure, observed through the animated expressions of the face, fluid movements of the body, and beautiful patterns on the batik sarongs. Lee Long Looi graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, in 1964. He studied at the Art Student League and the Pratt Institute, both in New York, in 1970. That year, he held his first solo at the Jarvis Art Gallery in New York. He won a batik prize in the United States for three consecutive years. He was given two Retrospectives by The Art Gallery Penang, first in 1997 and the other in 2010. His solo art exhibition entitled 4 Decades: Masterworks by Lee Long Looi was held at The Art Gallery in Penang.