Fung Ming Chip 馮明秋 (b. 1951)

Fung Ming Chip 馮明秋 (b. 1951 Guangdong Province) is a poet, calligrapher, playwright, photographer, sculptor and seal carver who was raised in Hong Kong. He moved to New York City in his twenties. From 1986 he lived between New York, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2004 he had an artist’s residency in Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2006 he moved to Hong Kong permanently.

Most contemporary calligraphers are inspired by Classical Chinese literature or painting but for Fung, calligraphy is an art of time and space and would be closer to music with script or text as a choreography of the brush. The Juanita Collection owns a vertical scroll with these qualities as posted above.

His work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Harvard and Princeton University museums, the Ashmolean in Oxford, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, HK Museum of Art and Asian Art Institute in Chicago.