Clang was born Ang Choon Leng in Singapore. He earned his moniker while in the National Service in Singapore as his badge read C L Ang. At age 17 he enrolled in Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore to study fine art photography but left after six months to assist a noted fine-art photographer named Chua Soo Bin. Later he worked for Willie Tang, a well known photographer/television commercial director in Singapore at the time. By the age of 21 he was exhibiting his photographs at art galleries in Singapore. Clang first exhibited his work as a member of the controversial (and now defunct) Singapore art group 5th Passage Artists. His work has been shown at Proud Galleries, London; Bank Art Gallery, Los Angeles; and Galerie Colette, Paris. "Backs by Clang”, the photographer's first solo exhibition was held in 2001 at the Diane von Furstenberg studio in New York. It featured 10 images and a video installation. Recent solo exhibitions include Jendela Gallery/ The Esplanade, Singapore (2004) and The Substation, Singapore (2007). An installation of his personal work is in the permanent collection at the Singapore Art Museum. In 2009, Clang has joined the global Hopenhagen effort with a beautiful stop-motion short film he created to bring awareness to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference starting December 7 in Copenhagen. In addition to the film, Clang shot and created a series of posters that that bring to life the visual representation of Hopenhagen’s citizens.
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