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Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi is a female visual artist. She was born, works and lives in Paramaribo, Suriname, South America. Kit-Ling studied visual art in Suriname and the Netherlands. She was traditionally trained by well-known artists such as Stuart Robbles de Medina and Rudi Getrouw (Suriname), Nico Molenkamp and Ru van Rossum (Holland), with an emphasis on painting, drawing and graphic art (etching, dry point, etcetera). In 2005, after successfully attending a workshop in the 'oneminutes' video film, organized by the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and the Akademie voor Hoger Kunst en Cultuuronderwijs (AHKCO - Art Academy, Paramaribo, Suriname), Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi added the short video-film as a medium to her artwork.

Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi made paintings and drawings, inspired by the tropical rainforest, and the richness of the diverse cultures in Suriname. After a period of devoted practice of Hata Yoga, an urge to go back to the basics arose. Then Kit-Ling ended up doing colour research and abstract painting for a short while. Living in a multi-cultural society, Kit-Ling still maintains certain elements of her Chinese heritage: meditation upon the subject matter and its inner energy. Along with nature and culture, women and children have always been important in the artwork of Kit-Ling. In 2008 Kit-Ling was reconsidering her position as a female artist and is focusing on the inner strength of women. At the moment she is in search of the strength of hybridism’ and she wants to tell the story of her hometown, the 'City of Paramaribo' to the world. She says: Being a Surinamese, a Caribbean woman and a world citizen, I realize that I have a hybrid heritage, that I have a hybrid personality, that I am hybrid.
See 'My Hybrid Heritage'
See 'My City Portraits'
Kit-Ling is charter-member and secretary of the FVAS, Federation of Visual Artists in Suriname, since the foundation in 1998.
Kit-Ling will be the guest Visual Artist at the Caribbean Women Writers Conference, THE CARIBBEAN, THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE,Women's Efforts, Women's Lives, in May 2012.