Further Details
WONG HAU KWEI (B. 1946)
Selected exhibitions
2012 Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong, China (solo)
2010 Shanghai Art Museum, China (group)
2009 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (group)
2008 Shenzhen Museum of Art, China (group)
2005 University Museum & Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (group)
2002 University of London, U.K. (group)
1997 The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (solo)
Notable collections
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China:
Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Painting Society, Beijing, China
Wong Hau Kwei, born in Chongqing in 1946, settled in Hong Kong in 1978. He graduated from Donghua University and became a businessman in the textile industry. When the economy flourished in the 1990s, he decided to change course and became a self-taught artist. Wong learned to paint from Huang Zhou and had spent almost a decade painting landscape. His conceptualized pieces won numerous awards and were shown in the Hong Kong Art Biennale in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005.
Wong began his artistic career with a unique style of "bimo"- the technique of brush-and-ink. It is distinguishable from other traditional painting schools because of his condensed line strokes. His meticulous draftsmanship acts as though the entire painting is sewed on. He paints landscape with definite tonality that metaphorically interweaves with subtle reminder of his past, almost seemingly like a textile needle worker. Wong often juxtaposes nature with the appearances of modern architecture or the presence of society to create equilibrium between the two polarities.
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