 |
W o n g Y a n K w a i , Y a n k 黃 仁 逵
Born in 1955 in Hong Kong, currently lives and works in Hong Kong. At once a painter, art director, set designer, writer, musician, and photographer: Yank is a true renaissance man who expresses his creativity in multiple forms. Yet above all he prefers to be called a painter, not an artist.
Educated in France during the 1970s, Wong was one of the earliest wave of foreign-trained painter to return to his native Hong Kong and embark on a journey in a contemporary art. Wong’s painting stands out among the Hong Kong arts scene in that it is free of social urban and historical context. Colour is his primary medium. He structure with it, sculpture with it, moves and speaks with it. The result is an odyssey of powerful and vivid colours that speaks its own truth.
Education and Background
1979
Study silkscreening at Galerie du Hant Pave, Paris, France
End of the year returned Hong Kong
Appointed art director for City Magazine
1975-1978
Study painting, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Worked in M. Augereau’s painting workshop
1973 – 1974
Visiting student at the National School of Fine Art, France, France
Selected Awards
1998 5th Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature
1992 Best Screenplay Award (“Cageman籠民”), Hong Kong Film Awards
1986 Best Art Direction Award (“Lunatics癲佬正傳”), Hong Kong Film Awards
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Painting Yankwai Wong, The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2007 AMARONAP, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2006 Visible Air: An Almost Transparent Landscape, Hermes store, Hong Kong International Airport
2004 Paintings & Paintings – Yan Kwai Wong (黃仁逵繪畫展), Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong
1996 Horizon II, Gallery 7, Hong Kong
1995 Horizon, Gallery 7, Hong Kong
1993 Balance, Gallery 7, Hong Kong
1989 Central Heating System, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1989 Interior Landscape, Le Cadre Gallery, Hong kong
1986 Paintings by Yank Wong, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
1982 Drawings by Yank Wong, Alliance Francaise, Hong Kong
1979 La Prairie, Centre Culturel de Caen Normandie, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Tribes, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong
2005
Dowda Happening: An Evening with Artists and Events without THE CANOPY (多大事件: 沒有天幕的多元藝術大事件), Dowda Soy Sauce, Hong Kong
2005
Inspired by Jean Cocteau, Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong
2003
Paysage-portage Exhibition, Old Ladies' House Art Space, Macau
2000
Sketch Extension 1 (素描擴展1), Old Ladies' House Art Space, Macau
1998
New Voices: Contemporary Art Dialogue (兩岸新聲 當代畫語), Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taiwan
1996
Cultural Chop Shui 2 (文化雜菜煲二), Fringe Gallery, Hong Kong
Exhibition 6.30, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Panoramic Visions - The 1st International Group Show, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
1995
Ac.cul.tu.rat.tion: Art in Time of Change (文化易容： 處變中的香港視覺藝術), Low Block Exhibition Hall - City Hall, Hong Kong
Contemporary Hong Kong Art 95 (九五當代香港藝展), Trigram Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
1994
A Festival of Installation Art: Documentary Exhibition ( 香港裝置藝術節： 香港裝置藝術文獻展), Hanart TZ Gallery, Gallery 7 and Fringe Club, Hong Kong
The Engima Variations, Gallery 7 Hong Kong
1993
Hong Kong Arts Centre Tutors' Exhibition 1993 (第三屆香港藝術中心課程導師作品展覽), Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Art & Space: From Sculpture to Installation (2) (藝術與空間：從雕塑到裝置 (2)), HKUST campus, Hong Kong
1990
Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibit, Washington DC, USA
1989
Turn of a Decade: A New Generation of Artists of the Eighties (轉變的年代：香港新一代藝術家作品展), Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1987
Ten Years of Hong Kong Painting (十年香港繪畫): An Exhibition to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1984
Into the '80s -- Contemporary Hong Kong Painting (香港繪畫), Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
| |
