BIOGRAPHY


Born in Guangdong, China in 1951. Raised in Hong Kong.  Worked after completing primary school.  Moved to New York in 1977, living between New York, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1986.  2006 settled down in Hong Kong.

 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

 

1982

 

“Lenscape”, American Library, Presented by American Consulate, Hong Kong, China

               

1986


“The Seal 1975 - 1985”, Asian Arts Institute, New York, USA

 

1993


“Variations of Seal Carving”, Taipei County Cultural Centre,
Taipei, Taiwan

 

1999      

           
Tsing Hwa University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan


Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan


“Caligrafia Chinesa de Fung Ming-Chip,” Fundacåo Orient, Casa


Garden, Macau, China

 

2004        

 

“Rational Line”, Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK

 

2012        

 

 To Be & Not To Be, The Private Museum, Singapore

 

2013        

 

Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong, China

               

M. Sutherland Fine Arts, New York, USA

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

1984        

 

“Small Works Exhibition”, Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, USA

 

1996        

 

Asia Pacific Heritage Month, Mass Transit Authority Headquarters, New York, USA

 

1999-2002

 

“Power of the Word” (International traveling exhibition)

 

2000        

 

“New Perspective on Contemporary Calligraphy – A Dialogue with Modern Sinitic Writing Art”, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan

 

2001        

 

“China Without Borders”, Goedhuis Contemporary at Sotheby’s, New York, USA

 

2002        

 

“Paris-Pekin”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France

 

“China”, Museum Saap, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2005        

 

“The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy”, International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005, Hangzhou, China

 

“The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art,” Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, USA

 

2007        

 

“Made In China” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

2008        

 

New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

 

Shenzhen Ink Biennial, Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China

 

Looking for Antonio Mak, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

 

2009        

 

Calligraffiti, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

 

2010        

 

Writing/Non-writing, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

 

Ink Art vs Ink Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

 

2011        

 

Ink Art vs Ink Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

 

2013        

 

Noirs D’Encre. Regards Croisés, Fondation Baur Musée des Arts D’Extreme-Orient, Genéve, Switzerland

 

 

 

Special Projects:

 

2004        

 

Artist in Residence: Jesus College, Cambridge University, U.K.

 

2007        

 

Mural: “Inner Universe”, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

 

2008        

 

Les Poèmes du Mandarin Tableware Collection, Hermès, France

 

 

 

Selected Public and Private Collections:

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

 

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA,USA

 

Princeton University Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ, USA

 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA

 

White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia

 

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England

 

The Olenska Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

 

United Airlines, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China

 

China Club, Hong Kong, China

 

Mobil Oil, Hong Kong, China


Fundacao Oriente, Macau, China