WUCIUS WONG
BIOGRAPHY
1936 Born in Humen, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China
1958 Co-founder and chairman of the Modern Literature and Art Association, Hong Kong
1960 Organiser of the First Hong Kong International Salon of Paintings
1967 Assistant Curator of the City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1977 Principal Lecturer of the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic
1990 Juror for Visual Arts grants by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1991 Visiting artist to the Saint Johnˇ¦s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
1994 Visiting artist to the Louisville Visual Art Association, Kentucky
1998 Adjudicator for the Hong Kong Biennial 1998
1999 Part-time Lecturer, Fine Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2000 Honorary adviser to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Guest Curator for Solitary Peaks, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art
ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2002 City Dreams, Works on Paper and Fabric, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
2001 Dialogue between Paper and Canvas, Huiˇ¦s Gallery, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2000 Goedhuis Contemporary, London
1999 Eastern Moods, Western Modes, Works on Canvas, Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong
Beyond Calligraphy, with C.C. Wang, Plum Blossoms International, Hong Kong and Singapore
1998 Ring of Fire, Kaikodo Gallery, New York
1997 Visions of a Wanderer, Plum Blossoms International, Hong Kong and Singapore
1986 Two Overseas Chinese Artists, with Chuang Che, National Gallery, Beijing
1994 Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
1992 The East-West Journey, Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei
Ancient Dreams, Godfrey Far Eastern Art, London
New Works by Su Trembath and Wucius Wong, Godfrey Far Eastern Art and Midlands Contemporary Art, London
1991 Alice R. Rogers Gallery, Saint Johnˇ¦s University, Minnesota
Gallery 456, Chinese-American Arts Council, New York
Ancient Dreams, Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey, Hong Kong
1990 The Rotunda, Exchange Square, sponsored by Hong Kong Land, Hong Kong
1989 River Dreams, Gerald Godfrey Far Eastern Art, London
Water and Clouds, Hanart Gallery, New York
1988 Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei
1987 Mountain Thoughts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Hong Kong Cityscapes - Ink Painting in Transition, presented by the Hong Kong Museum of Art at the Hong Kong Festival in London
Contemporary Chinese Art from the Khoan and Michael Sullivanˇ¦s Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, U.K.
2001 Ten, Kaikodo, New York
Beyond Boundaries, presented by Goedhuis Contemporary at Sothebyˇ¦s Galleries, New York
Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Painting, Exhibition Gallery, Sun Yat-senˇ¦s Memorial Hall, Taipei
2000 Exposicao de Arte Chiesa Celebracao do regresso de Macau a Patria, Museu de Arte de Macau
International Chinese Painting Exhibition, Nanjing Arts Festival, Changzhou Art Museum
Twentieth Century Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Beijing
Contemporary Guangdong Oil Painting, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
1999 China, 5000 Years, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
1998 China, 5000 Years, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum
First International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen
1997 Hong Kong Art 1997 Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Beijing, and Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
The Chinese Root: Works by Mainland and Overseas Chinese Artists, Shanghai Art Museum
Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945-1970, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, travelled to New York, Chicago, Taipei, Kao Hsiung, and various places in Japan and Korea
1996 Mutations of Ink and Paper, Exhibition of Works by Chinese-American Artists on the East Coast, Chinese Information and Culture Center, New York
Tradition and Innovation - Twentieth Century Chinese Painting, Hong Kong Museum of Art, travelled to Singapore Art Museum, British Museum, and Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln, Germany
1995 Chinese Artists in the United States, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong
1994 The Beauty of Ink - Exhibition of Ink Paintings by Contemporary Master Artists in North America, Chinese Cultural Center, Westmont, Illinois, and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Hong Kong Art, Kogashima Prefectural Museum of Culture, Reimeikan, Kagoshima, Japan
Between East and West - Transformations of Chinese Art in the Late 20th Century, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Beyond the Borders, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
ORIENTations, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C., and Louisville Visual Art Association, Kentucky
1993 Visions in Between - Paintings by Chinese, Japanese and Korean Artists, Ise Foundation, New York, travelled to Fukuyama Museum, Hiroshima, Japan; Walker-Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea; and various galleries in Taiwan
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1992 Second International Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen
Where the Streams Become a River - Contemporary Works from the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
1990 In the Literary Tradition - Exhibition of l9th and 20th Century Chinese Paintings, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
1989 Beyond the Magic Mountains, Hanart Gallery, New York and Taipei
1988 Continuity and Change - Five Contemporary Chinese Artists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CN
Aspetti della Pittura Chinese Contemporanea, Galleria Civica dˇ¦Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy
1987 Chinese Paintings: Traces of the Brush, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
AWARDS
1970 John D. Rockefeller III Fund Grant
1998 Emeritus Fellowship, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University
British Museum
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Shanghai Art Museum
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Tao of Chinese Landscape Painting, English Edition, Design Press, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991
Principles of Two-Dimensional Design, English Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1972, John Wiley, New York, 1998; Chinese Edition, Hsiung Shih, Taipei, 1980; Spanish Edition, Gustav Gili SA. Barcelona; Indonesian Edition, Penedit ITB, Bandung, 1986
Principles of Form and Design, English Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1993, John Wiley, New York, 1998, Spanish Edition, Gustavo Gili, SA, Barcelona, 1996
Principles of Color Design, English Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1987; Revised and Expanded English Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1997, John Wiley, New York, 1998
Visual Design on the Computer, English Edition, Design Books, Lyons and Burford, New York, 1994; Revised Second Edition, W.W. Norton, New York, 2001 |
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