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Po Shun Leong was born on 15 March, 1941 in United States, is an A 20th-century british male artist. Discover Po Shun Leong's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Po Shun Leong Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Po Shun Leong worth at the age of 83 years old? Po Shun Leong’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from United States. We have estimated Po Shun Leong's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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His father, Ah Yow Leong was born in Toisan, southern China around 1891, eventually becoming a successful businessman in England.
He started the Leong Trading Company and purchased a ship in Hong Kong to import goods to England.
After the Second World War, with his export company inoperable, he opened the Universal Chinese Restaurant at 11 Denmark Street, Soho, London.
She was born on December 4, 1913, of the Chinese lunar year calendar.
Po Shun's mother currently lives in the Los Angeles area, sharing time with Po Shun’s family and his brother Po Chih.
Po Shun Leong (born 15 March 1941) is an English artist, former architect, sculptor and furniture maker.
Po Shun was introduced to carpentry at the age of five when in 1946 he was sent to Holmewood House, a boarding school near Tunbridge Wells.
At the age of eleven had a painting exhibited at the Royal Drawing Society in London and was awarded an honorable mention.
His next school was Leighton Park, a Quaker school near Reading.
He died in 1948 after falling down the stairs.
Po Shun's mother, born Lai Jing Woo, came from the village of Shun Tuck Yoon, Guang Dong, China as the second wife to Po Shun's father.
He had his first one-man show when he was 17 years old in 1958 at the Hammersmith Art Gallery, London.
It received a positive review in Artnews but no paintings were sold.
In 1958 he entered the Architectural Association School of Architecture, AA, in London and received a travel scholarship to France and Italy where he studied with Le Corbusier, with whom stayed in the monastery of La Tourette that Le Corbusier designed near the city of Lyon, France.
Po Shun received a second travel scholarship to work/study in California with Architects Kistner, Wright & Wright.
During college vacations, he worked with Sir William Holford and Partners in the City of London, planning buildings at the new University of Exeter.
Po Shun graduated in 1964.
Foregoing graduation ceremonies, he traveled with friends to Calabria in Southern Italy to volunteer with Servicio Civile Internationale, a work project to construct an aqueduct in a poor village high up in the remote mountains.
He then returned to England to design public housing for Cooperative Planning Ltd and the Brent Housing Authority.
He joined the American Friends Service Committee and was sent to a remote part of Mexico, initially to help build a well in a village called Cuauhtenco.
The next year Po Shun joined CAPFCE, the Mexican school construction committee.
He designed 27 secondary schools in the state of Michoacán.
Most of the schools were in areas where roads did not exist.
The prefabricated metal school structures were sometimes transported by mule or rafted over rivers.
On his numerous visits to local villages, he was attracted to the great variety of ceramic, wood, metal and textile crafts.
During the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Po Shun worked in the Olympic Cultural Committee helping to organize the International Festival of Children’s Mural Painting.
He met Ruth Rivera, director of the Fine Arts Palace and the daughter of Diego Rivera.
He lived for ten years in a house that she designed and had previously lived in.
After the Olympics he joined Aluminio Deschamps SA to design aluminum and fiberglass building facades.
In his spare time he painted landscapes in acrylics and had an exhibition at the Anglo Mexican Institute.
He decided to apply for Mexican citizenship.
In 1969 he married Poh Suan Leong, whom he met in college.
He is also known since the late 1980s for his highly intricate one-of-a-kind wood boxes, some now in museum collections.
He was born at Northampton, England, and educated at the Quaker Leighton Park School in Berkshire, and then at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London, and has resided in Southern California since 1981.
The Landscape box, a constantly evolving series since 1983 is architectural in character and built up of many different woods in their natural colors.
They are inspired from ancient or legendary civilizations.
He maintains a studio in the garden of his residence in the City of Winnetka in the San Fernando Valley, north west of Los Angeles.
He continues to make elaborate wood objects and is developing a line of simple, sculpturally-inspired furniture.
Po Shun is the son of Ah Yow Leong and his second wife, Wright Jing (née Woo).
Po Shun is the eighth child, initially raised in a family of nine siblings.