Chan Shing Kau
Chan Shing Kau, born in Hong Kong in 1952, is from Qiantou, Dongguan, Guagdong. He graduated from the Department of Art at Grantham College of Education in 1975. He also finished a Diploma programme in Chinese Ink Painting from the School of Extramural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist Institute in 1977 and a Diploma programme in Modern Chinese Ink Painting from School of Extramural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1978.
Inheriting Master Liu Kuo-sung’s belief in “free manifestations of abstract imagery”, Chan has been making further explorations on Master Liu’s writing “A Discussion on the Dynamism of White Lines” and techniques such as “water rubbing”, “spray and dye”, “steeped ink”, etc. At the same time, he has also studied Chinese calligraphy, seal carving and paleography under Professor Ma Kwok Kuen, paleographer and Researcher of the Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chan is now a member of the China Artists Association, Hong Kong Artists Association and International Chinese Ink Painting Association. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Modern Ink Painting Society, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Chan Clan Association of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings, and Consultant of the Contemporary Innovative Ink Painting Association. Academically speaking, Chan is a Visiting Professor at Zhengzhou Shengda University of Economics, Business and Management, part-time Instructor of Modern Ink Paintings in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and adjudicator of “Ink Global”. He was selected 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 has held more than 15 solo exhibitions and hundreds of joint exhibitions in Hong Kong, China and overseas. His artworks were collected by museums from the U.S., Japan, Korea, Shenzhen, Taiwan, Nanjing, Hubei, Shandong, 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 |
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Award
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 |
2011 | Gold Medal in the "New Yan Huang Cup" - the 1st International Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition |
2011 | Gold Medal in the 6th Exchange Exhibition of Guilin (China) and Sao Paulo (Brazil) Calligraphy and Paintings |
2005 | Conferred as the “Chinese Outstanding Artist” |
2005 | Gold Medal in “Chinese Soul --- Ink Exhibition in Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Victory of the Anti-Japanese War” |
2005 | Awarded as “Excellent Artist of the People” |
2005 | “One of the 400 masters in Chinese Landscape Paintings in the New Century” in the 5th Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition |
2005 | Honorary Gold Medal in Exchange Exhibition of Famous Artists of China & Korea in Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings |
2004 | Silver Medal in the 7th Beijing International Art Expo 2004 |
2003 | Being selected in the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003 |
2002 | Honorary Gold Medal in the 4th Cross-straits Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition |
2001 | Honorary Award in the 4th Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition |
1992 | Being selected in Innovative and Experimental Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan |
Solo Exhibition
2020 | Chan Shing Kau Solo Exhibition by Cheer Bell Gallery & Hong Kong Art, Hong Kong Art Space, Hong Kong |
| Miraculous Variation, Beyond Boundaries --- Chan Shing Kau’s Modern Ink, Delfino Auction Limited, Hong Kong |
2019 | Miraculous Variation, Beyond Boundaries --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Kaohsiung Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy Association, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Trace of Brush --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Naruwan Gallery, Naruwan Hotel, Taitung, Taiwan Miraculous Variation, Beyond Boundaries --- Chan Shing Kau’s Modern Ink, Cheer Bell Gallery, Hong Kong Trace of Brush --- Modern Ink Painting by Chan Shing Kau, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
2004 | The Black & White Series --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong |
2003 | Flourish --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai King Building, Hong Kong |
2000 | Roam & Snow --- Modern Chinese Ink Paintings by Chan Shing Kau, Shatin Town Hall, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong |
1991 | Square World --- Chinese Ink by Chan Shing Kau, Exhibition Hall, Joint Publishing Hong Kong |
Directory
1999 | The Big Dictionary of the World Excellent Talents |
1997 | The Dictionary of the Achievements of World Chinese Artists |
1995 | The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Art Circles in China |