Lee Boon Wang

Lee Boon Wang was born in 1935 in Guangdong, China. He emigrated to Singapore with his family as a child. He had a brother, Lee Boon Yang, who became a businessman and politician, and a sister, Lee Boon Ngan, who married the painter Chua Mia Tee.

Wang graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1953.

Wang began his career by teaching at his alma mater, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked in advertising, first for S. H. Benson and later for Leo Burnett Worldwide. By the 1970s, he became a full-time landscape painter. He painted many scenes by the river and the sea. Many of his paintings were acquired by the National Gallery Singapore. It was also exhibited at the Ngee Ann Cultural Centre and the Empress Place Museum Gallery.

Wang was a co-founder of the Equator Art Society, a left-leaning realist organization in the mid-1950s.<ref name="straittimescancerstrickenartist"> He later joined the Singapore Watercolour Society.

Wang had a son from a first marriage. He was then married to Helen Teo for four decades.

Wang underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2014 and relapsed with colon cancer in 2016. He died on October 30, 2016 at the St Andrew's Community Hospital in Singapore.