GUAN Weibang (KOON Wai-bong) (1974 - )

Koon Wai Bong received his B.A. and M.F.A. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his D.F.A. from the RMIT University. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Koon was awarded the “Rising Artist Award” from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2003), the “Merit” from the National Exhibition of Arts, China (2004) and “Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award” (2009). His works are widely exhibited in Hong Kong, China and overseas, including “Koon Wai Bong: Reworking the Classics”(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2009), “The International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen” (2010), “Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial”(2012), “New Ink Exhibition” at the Sotheby’s Gallery (2013), “Chinese Contemporary Ink” at The James Christie Room (2014) and the “Plentitude in Commonality – Invitational Exhibition of MFA Graduates in Chinese Media of CUHK” (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015). Besides, he held the TRANSpose as a solo show at The Museum of East Asian Art, UK in 2013, and widely exhibited in museums, galleries and art fairs across Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, USA, Britain, Germany and Singapore. His works are collected by galleries, museums, art organizations and private collectors, such as M+, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Wharf Group in Hong Kong, J. Safra Sarasin Group in Singapore, Ben Brown Fine Arts and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Koon is a prolific painter of landscapes, rocks, bamboo, flowers and plants. He has a profound knowledge and command of the traditions of Chinese painting and ink and brush techniques and he masters the stylistic essence of past masters. His works are noted for their delicate and meticulous brush work, consummate pictorial composition and lyricism, revealing the spirit of literati painting. In recent years, Koon has also explored the possibilities of blending ink art with other media such as installations, as well as painting on the Chinese qibao, to explore new horizons of contemporary ink art.

GUAN Weibang (KOON Wai-bong) (1974 - )
Whispering Woods
2015
Horizontal triptych, ink and color on paper
Each: 30.5 x 80 cm

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist

Exhibited and Published

1. A Tale of Two Cities – Paintings and Calligraphy by Shanghai and Hong Kong Artists, K. Y. Fine Art & Shanghai Art Academy, 2-7 Oct 2015, P.70-71.
2. Plentitude in Commonality – Invitational Exhibition of MFA Graduates in Chinese Media OF CUHK. Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 31.5. – 28.6.2015, pp.12-13.