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Deeper Thirst depicts the vertical structure of a high rise building in a vivid palette consisting of blue, red and ochre shades. The work is a continuation from his Jeans series. The eclectic works of Chan Kok Hooi feature whimsical stories, creating images that are fascinating yet filled with remarkable detail. The revered curator Syed Nabil (2010) wrote: "His works abound with a disorientating array of imagery, symbols and junctions that reveal networks of fragmented and dislocated stories intended as translations of universal concerns of the human condition." Kok Hooi won the Mayor of Beppu Prize in the Beppu Art Biennale in Oita, Japan, in 2005 and was a winner of the Malaysian award of the Asean Art Award in 2003. He also won a prize in the Taichung Print and Drawing Biennial in Taiwan in 2006. He was a finalist of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Hong Kong) from 2007 to 2009, and the Louis Vuitton Art Prize (Hong Kong) in 2007. He won the Juror's Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) competition in 2006-2007 and was placed among the Top 3 (2D category) in the 2004 competition. He was awarded a Royal Overseas League scholarship for residency in Arbroath, Scotland, in 2009. His other residencies were at Galeri Petronas (2008), ABN Amro Malihom (2007 and 2008), Gwangju (2012), Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (2009), and Vermont Studio Centre in the United States in 2007. His solos were Here I Could Even Pluck The Stars By Hand (A+ Works Of Art, 2018); Imitating (Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Centre, USA, 2007); Photo Store (Feijacun Village, under Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, 2008); I See(k) You: Recent Works (Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, 2010); You Are Carnivores (Pierogi Gallery, New York, 2010); and Sell Out (Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore, 2012).