Mee-Seen Loong is a
Fine Art Consultant based in New York. Prior to the establishment of Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art LLC she was Senior Vice
President, Head of International Asian Business Development and Client Services
and a senior specialist in the Chinese Works of Art Department in Sothebys New
York. She now provides art advisory
services to individual collectors, institutions and corporations in the United
States and Asia. and remains a
consultant to Sothebys. An
established expert in Chinese works of art, Ms. Loong will expand her
consultative services to include the representation and promotion of
contemporary Chinese artists.
During her thirty-year
long association with Sothebys, Ms. Loong was the Co-Director of the Chinese Works of
Art department in North America and Managing Director of Sotheby's Hong
Kong. She has worked on some of the best collections of Chinese art to
come up at auction in the last quarter century, including Eugene Bernat, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, J.M. Hu, The J.T. Tai Foundation, Dr. Ip Yee, T.Y.
Chao I and II, Paul and Helen Bernat, An Important Collection of Ming and Qing
Porcelain, The British Rail Pension Fund , Antoinette and Frederick Van
Slyke, Goldschmidt, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, and the Estate of
Laurance Rockefeller. She has advised on art exhibitions in museums and
galleries in Asia and North America, She also played a key role in the first
sale of Chinese Contemporary Art at Sotheby's New York in March 2006.
Active in art and
educational circles, she has served as Honorary Secretary for the Friends of
the Hong Kong Museum of Art and on numerous Boards including the American Field
Service International Scholarships, The China Heritage Foundation, and the New
York Friends of the Wellesley Art Museum. In 1996 she was a co-founder of Valentine Willie Fine Arts in Kuala
Lumpur, a gallery specializing in contemporary South- East Asian art.
A native of Kuala
Lumpur, Mee-Seen Loong earned her Bachelor's degree in Art History from
Wellesley College and her Master's degree in Far Eastern Art from Columbia
University.
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