LUI Chun Kwong 呂振光
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BIOGRAPHY
1956 Born in Guangdong, China 1980 Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University (BA) 1994 Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK (MA) Settling in Hong Kong since 1962, Lui Chun Kwong is a renowned artist whose practice mainly involves painting. He also makes works on paper, installations and prints. Throughout his artistic career of more than forty years, he has explored the technique and schema of abstract landscape painting. His signature Landscape series challenge the classical Chinese aesthetics of landscape painting, embodying the visual effect of the pure form and achieving a state of quiet cultivation. The repetitive lines on the canvases demonstrate a highly meditative process and awareness, reaching a state of being simple, mindful and original. Lui studied at the Department of Fine Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University in 1980 and obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Goldsmiths’ College of the University of London in 1994. He was Associate Professor of the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 2010. Lui founded the Hong Kong Modern Art Society of Watercolour with his fellow artists in 1988, and chaired the Society for the first three years. He also served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Visual Art Society from 1988 to 2002. Lui has participated in numerous exhibitions, recent solo shows include Lui Chun Kwong: Forming Dusty Clues (AIKE Gallery, Shanghai, 2018); and Lui Chun Kwong: The Distant Line (Tap Seac Gallery, Macau, 2016). Group exhibitions such as Non-objective Realm (MUD Gallery, Shanghai, 2020); Primitive Elements (ANNEX Space, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, 2018); Spiral Stairs (AIKE Gallery, Shanghai, 2018); Connect 4 (Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016); and Breaking Through to the Actual via the Imagination (Long Museum, Shanghai, 2015). His works were acquired by the M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Long Museum of Art (China), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), National Museum of History (Taiwan), Department of Fine Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan), and the DSL Collection (France). HIGHLIGHT 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2017 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2016 Art Basel Hong Kong, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2015 Art Basel Hong Kong, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Forming Duty Clues, AIKE Gallery, Shanghai 2016 Lui Chun Kwong : The Distant Line, Tap Seac Gallery, Macau 2015 Lui Chun Kwong : Ten thousand Crags and Torrents, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong Comma after Period: Lui Chun Kwong Yiliu Painting Factory, Art Basel Hong Kong, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Lui Chun Kwong Recent Works, Aike-Dellarco, Shanghai, China 2012 Piao Piao Ran: Recent Works by Lui Chun Kwong, Osage Open, Hong Kong 2001 Lui Chun Kwong Yi Liu Shan Shui, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2000 Flea Market: An Exhibition of Paintings and Crafts by Lui Chun Kwong, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 1998 Hong Kong Artists Series: Lui Chun Kwong, Arts Centre, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2020 Non-objective Realm, MUD Gallery, Shanghai, China 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2018 Primitive Elements, ANNEX Space, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai China Spiral Stairs, AIKE, Shanghai China 2017 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2016 Connect 4, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong Next Destination HK, Sotheby's Gallery, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2015 Breaking Through to the Actual via the Imagination_ Asian Art from Long Museum Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Here is Where We meet, Duddell;s, Hong Kong The Boundaries of Order (Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China) Yuan Yi: Chinese New Abstract Art Exhibition (Cultural Making, Shenzhen, China) 2014 Art 021, Shanghai, China Artissima : The International Fair of contemporary Art, Turin, Italy 2013 Art Basel Hong Kong, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong This is the way of living: Lui Chun Kwong + Chen Shun-chu, AM Space, Hong Kong 2012 Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Yu Di: Lui Chun Kwong & Lee Kit, Aike-Dellarco, Shanghai, China 2010 Lui Chun Kwong: You Are Here, I am Not., Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Legacy and Creations: Ink Art vs Ink Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China 2009 Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chun Kwong, Yan Shanchun, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong & Seoul, The Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea 2008 New Ink Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong One Hundred Years of Watercolor in Taiwan, National Museum of History, Taiwan National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Unpcak, Nanshan Museum, China Academy of Art, China 2007 Reversing Horizons, MoCA Shanghai, China SELECTED COLLECTIONS National Museum of History, Taiwan Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong Heritage Museum Hong Kong Arts Centre The Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Guangdong Museum of Art, China Museum +, Hong Kong Long Museum of Art, China DSL Collection, France K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong RELATED ARTICLES
TimeOutHongKong, September, 2010
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