Stephen WONG Chun Hei 黃進曦

Stephen WONG Chun Hei (b. 1986, Hong Kong) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. Natural landscape scenery is the main theme in WONG’s paintings. In the early period, artist took the scenes inside the video games as the source of inspiration in order to question the visual impact of the virtual world. In recent years, artist combines his intuitive imagination and visual experience during the long hiking trips to create his works. As such, WONG’s landscape paintings provide a sense of mystery, being familiar yet out of place. His works prompt viewer to ponder the relationship between human, nature and virtual reality. The highly stylised brushstrokes as though resemble the artist’s footsteps in the countryside and murmur the interdepedence between human and nature.
 
Stephen WONG Chun Hei 
黃進曦

BIOGRAPHY
 
1986
Born in Hong Kong
 
2008
BA in Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Looking at the sky and the landscape beneath, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2016
Daydream Travelogues, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
The Passenger, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
 
2015
Hong Kong Mountains, Watercolor Paintings by Wong Chun Hei, HKsowell, Taiwan
Meeting the Mountains, Makee, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
The Mountain Speaks, Open Quote, PMQ, Hong Kong
 
2014
Step back to nature, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2012
Stay Lost, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2011
From a Distance, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2010
Someone Bending the Machine: An Exhibition Responding to the Artworks of Chow Chun Fai, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2008
Bystander Somewhere, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
 
2007
Manifesto, New Asia College Chien Mu Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
These Painter’s Painters, ROH Projects, Jakarta
 
2017
Art Shenzhen 2017, Gallery EXIT, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong


2016
Paperscapes: New Works by Stephen Wong Chun Hei and Eric Fok, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2014
At the still point of the turning world, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2013
REUNDEFINED, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
Traits, Ox Warehouse, Macau
Asia Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong 2013, Hong Kong  
 
2012
Fine Art Asia 2011, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
 
2011
Art Asia Miami 2011, USA
No Between, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
 
2010
Tasting Hong Kong: Hong Kong Toy, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong
Haven't you Heard, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
Stretched Connotations, White Tube Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
 
2009
Hiking Arte, K11, Hong Kong
Dwelling, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Point-to-point, site-specific art project, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Hong Kong
 
2008
New Trend, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
2015
100 Mountains, MAJO Design
《山語》, Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Company Limited, ISBN: 978-962-04-3719-9