Fung Ming Chip 馮明秋 (b. 1951)

Fung Ming Chip is a poet, calligrapher, playwright, photographer, sculptor and seal carver who was born in Guangdong but raised in Hong Kong. He moved to New York City in his 20s, and would later divide his time between the city, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He moved back to Hong Kong permanently in 2006.

While most contemporary calligraphers take inspiration from classical Chinese literature or painting, Fung’s brand of calligraphy connotes aspects of time and space, and would be closer to scripted music or text as a choreography of the brush. The Juanita Collection owns a vertical scroll with these qualities.

In 2004, Fung had an artist’s residency at Cambridge’s Jesus College. His work is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Harvard and Princeton University museums, the Asian Art Institute in Chicago, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.