Hau Kwei Wong - Artist Info

About Hau Kwei Wong

  • Biography

    Wong Hau Kwei was born in Chongqing in 1946 and settled in Hong Kong in 1978. He graduated from Donghua University and became a businessman in the textile industry. When the economy flourished in the 1990s, he decided to change course and became a self-taught artist. Wong learned to paint from Huang Zhou and had spent almost a decade painting landscape.

    His conceptualized pieces won numerous awards and were shown in the Hong Kong Art Biennale in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005. Wong began his artistic career with a unique style of "bimo"- the technique of brush-and-ink. It is distinguishable from other traditional painting schools because of his condensed line strokes.

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