HUNG Fai (b. 1988)

Hung Fai (b. 1988, Hong Kong) is the son of noted ink painter Hung Hoi (b. 1957) but was determined from a young age to forge an artistic language independent from his father’s. Since earning his BFA from the Fine Arts department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, he has developed his own visual idiom whereby he radically challenges the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting. Using an ink pen instead of a brush, he deconstructs the techniques and elements in Chinese painting—paper, water and ink—and then conceptually reconstructs and transforms them, expanding the possibilities of the genre.

Hung earned his BFA from the Fine Arts department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. Recent group exhibitions include the Kathmandu Triennale 2077 (2022), Macao Museum of Art (2022), Para Site, Hong Kong (2020), Guangdong Museum of Art (2020), and M+ (2017). Hung’s work is in the collections of M+ and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. He received the Gold Prize for the Liu Kuo-sung Ink Art Award Hong Kong edition in 2022. Hung lives and works in Hong Kong.