Chan Shing Kau

Chan Shing Kau, Roots of Heaven and Earth (152), 2014, Ink and Colour on Paper, 47 cm (H) x 89 cm (W)

Chan Shing Kau, Roots of Heaven and Earth (276), 2018, Ink and Colour on Paper, 140 cm (H) x 70 cm (W)

Chan Shing Kau, Roots of Heaven and Earth (281), 2018, Ink and Colour on Paper, 137 cm (H) x 69 cm (W)

Chan Shing Kau, Tracing Series (124), 2016, Ink and Colour on Paper, 138 cm (H) x 69 cm (W)

Chan Shing Kau, born in Hong Kong in 1952, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature in the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1989. He graduated from the Department of Art in Grantham College of Education in 1975. He also finished a diploma course in Chinese Landscape paintings at the School of Extramural Studies of Hong Kong Baptist Institute in 1977 and a diploma course in modern ink painting at the School of Extramural Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1978.

He studied Chinese ink painting under Professor Liu Guo Sung and Chinese Calligraphy and Seal Carving under Professor Ma Kwok Kuen. He is a member of the China Artists Association, Hong Kong Artists Association and International Chinese Ink Painting Association. He is also Chairman of the Hong Kong Modern Ink Painting Society, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Chan Clan Association of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings, Consultant of the Contemporary Innovative Ink Painting Association, Visiting Professor of Zhengzhou Shengda University of Economics, Business and Management, part-time Instructor of Modern Ink Paintings in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and adjudicator of “Ink Global 2017”. Chan was also catalogued in “the Big Dictionary of the World Excellent Talents”, “The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Art Circles in China” and “the Dictionary of the Achievements of World Chinese Artists”.

Chan held 15 solo exhibitions and hundreds of joint exhibitions in Hong Kong, China and overseas countries. His artworks were collected by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Arts in Japan, Daegu Art Museum in South Korea, He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, National Museum of History in Taiwan, Jiangsu Art Museum in Nanjing, Hubei Museum of Art, Qingdao Art Museum, One Step Back Studio, etc.

Collection

Asian Art Museum	San Francisco, the United States
West & East Gallery	Melbourne, Australia
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Arts	Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Daegu Art Museum	Daegu, South Korea
National Museum of History	Taipei, Taiwan
Capital Art Centre	Taichung, Taiwan
Koto Art Gallery	Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Lok Ku Gallery	Casey Building, Hong Kong
One Step Back Studio	Hong Kong
Beijing International Art Exposition	Beijing, China
Shanghai International Culture Association	Shanghai, China
Jiangsu Art Museum	Jiangsu, China
He Xiangning Museum	Shenzhen, China
Hubei Museum of Art	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Qingdao Art Museum	Qingdao, China
Qingzhou Museum	Qingzhou, China
Shandong Museum	Jinan, China
Zhongyuan Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute	Zhengzhou, China
Zhengzhou Shengda University of Economics, Business and Management	Zhengzhou, China
Yangshao Cultural and Art Development Research Institute	Sanmenxia, China
Weifang Museum	Weifang, China
Private collectors

Award

1992	Being selected in Innovative and Experimental Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan
2001	Honorary Award in the 4^thContemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition
2002	Honorary Gold Medal in the 4^th Cross-straits Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition
2003	Being selected in the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003
2004	Silver Medal in the 7^th Beijing International Art Expo 2004
2005	Honorary Gold Medal in Exchange Exhibition of Famous Artists of China & Korea in Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings
2005	“One of the 400 masters in Chinese Landscape Paintings in the New Century” in the 5^thContemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition
2005	Awarded as “Excellent Artist of the People”
2005	Gold Medal in “Chinese Soul --- Ink Exhibition in Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Victory of the Anti-Japanese War”
2005	Conferred as the “Chinese Outstanding Artist”
2011	Gold Medal in the 6^th Exchange Exhibition of Guilin (China) and Sao Paulo (Brazil) Calligraphy and Paintings
2011	Gold Medal in the "New Yan Huang Cup" - the 1^st International Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition
2011	Highest Honorable Prize of the Light of Overseas Chinese Art Award in the Invitational Exhibition of artworks by Famous Local and Overseas Artists & Calligraphists

Solo Exhibition

1991	Square World --- Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Exhibition Hall, Joint Publishing Hong Kong
2000	Roam & Snow --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Shatin Town Hall, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong
2003	Flourish --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai King Building, Hong Kong
2004	The Black & White Series --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2005	The Depth of Ink --- Modern Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong The Heart of Ink --- Modern Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Qingdao Museum, China
2006	Mountain • River • Dream --- Modern Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Art Gallery, The Hong Kong Institute of Education Mountain • River • Dream --- Modern Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Exhibition Hall, Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs’s Cemetery, China
2012	The Celebration of the Year of Dragon --- Modern Chinese Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, The Pacifica, Hong Kong The Way of Shuimo --- Modern Chinese Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Zhengzhou Shengda University of Economics, Business and Management, China The Way of Shuimo --- Modern Ink Painting of Chan Shing Kau, Qingdao Art Museum, China
2013	A Glimpse of Ink --- Modern Ink Painting of Chan Shing Kau, Jockey Club Creative Art Centre, Hong Kong Memory of Motherland --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Zhi Ren Tang Gallery, Dongguan, China New Ink --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Qingzhou Museum, Shandong Province, China
2019	Trace of Brush --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University
2019	Miraculous Variation, Beyond Boundaries --- Chan Shing Kau’s Modern Ink, Cheer Bell Gallery, Hong Kong

Directory

1995	The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Art Circles in China
1997	The Dictionary of the Achievements of World Chinese Artists
1999	The Big Dictionary of the World Excellent Talents