A self-taught artist, Fung Ming Chip is primarily an artist of the word: essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, seal carver and Chinese calligrapher. He was born in Guangdong, raised in Hong Kong and moved to New York City in his mid-20s, before relocating to Taiwan and then coming full circle to Hong Kong. Fung’s experimentations with seal carving broke through the traditional frame of the seal carver’s art. Gradually, the sense of writing a personal presence through a technique other than brush and ink inspired him to experiment with new ways of playing with the relationship between paper, ink and word-form. Fung’s artistic process is based on a rationalization of the elements of time and sequential movement in calligraphic writing, and also a calculation of the process by which ink emerges from the absorbent ground of the Chinese xuan paper. The sense of time and motion, and the magic of apparition and disappearance are recurring themes in Fung’s work.
Fung’s work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally and is included in some of the most important collections of Chinese calligraphy around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; White Rabbit Collection, Sydney; and Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He has also been active as a painter, photographer, and sculptor. He was artist in residence at Cambridge University, and he was recently commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a new work for the exhibition Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China (2013-14).
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