Hung Fai (b. 1988)

Hong Kong-born artist Hung Fai, the son of noted ink painter Hung Hoi, was determined from a young age to forge an artistic language independent from his father’s. Since earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, he has developed a visual idiom that radically challenges the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting. Using an ink pen instead of a brush, he deconstructs the techniques and elements of Chinese painting – paper, water and ink – then conceptually reconstructs and transforms them, expanding the possibilities of the genre.

Hung’s work has been part of group exhibitions at the Kathmandu Triennale 2077 (2022), the Macao Museum of Art (2022), Para Site in Hong Kong (2020), the Guangdong Museum of Art (2020), and M+ in Hong Kong (2017). His work is in the collections of M+ and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. He received the Gold Prize at the Hong Kong edition of the Liu Kuo-sung Ink Art Award in 2022. 

Hung lives and works in Hong Kong.