Stephan Chong was born in Kingston, Jamaica; he attended the Edna Manley School for the Visual arts for one year. Later he transferred to Pratt Institute, graduated with Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in Painting with honors and earned a circle award for academic achievement. He continued his education at the Savannah College of Art and Design, he graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in Painting. 

His earlier work and thesis focus on the relationships between cats and dogs as a metaphor for people; combining color and the positioning of the animals to create a tension that is made between groups and subgroups. Stephan also experimented with abstraction and still life paintings; after graduate school he was awarded a studio residency at the ArtCenter/South Florida, now has changed its name to Oolite Arts. 

His most recent work is an interpretation of the landscape via the stitch of the camera and memory using watercolor and paper as a medium. As the paintings are not of the landscape itself but more of a place that it takes you to during that time of his journey through the landscape and environment.