Writing about Chui Tze-Hung’s solo exhibition at Alisan Fine Arts in the South China Morning Post on the 18th of May 1987, art critic Nigel Cameron stated that the great challenge of the 1960s and 1970s for younger Chinese artists was how to revitalise the tradition of Chinese painting which was moribund. Chui was one of the dozen or so painters of those times who set his mind and brush to this.
Born in Hong Kong in 1936, today Chui is a well-known ink painter. In 1962 he graduated from the China College in Hong Kong, with an emphasis on Chinese art. In 1968 he studied printmaking with the American artist Joan Farrar and in 1969 Chinese ink painting with Lui Shou-Kwan. He began teaching art in 1985. He has published three books about the Hong Kong art scene, including Beyond the Painter’s Brush in 1991 and Art Talks, Art Circle in 1992. He founded studio Touchstone at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Hong Kong in 2005. He is currently an advisor to the Jao Tsung-I Academy, Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Artists Association, and Honorary President of the Chinese Poem, Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute Lingnan Branch Campus. Chui also has had a long career in art criticism and has written articles for the Golden Age Magazine, Artist Magazine, Companion Pictorial, Wen Wei Pao, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, and New Evening Post. He was also a member of the influential art groups In Tao Group and One Art Group (founded in 1971).
Since his solo exhibition in 1987, the gallery has included his works in three group exhibitions, including two exhibitions for Lui Shou-Kwan and his students in 1995 and more recently in 2015, and the Uniquely Hong Kong: A Celebration of Hong Kong Art in 2020.
Works included in gallery monograph Alisan Fine Arts 35 Years, 2016.
BIOGRAPHY
1936 Born in Hong Kong
1958-1962 Studied Chinese art at China College, Hong Kong
1968 Studied print-making with Joan Farrar (American artist)
Co-founded In Tao Art Association
1969 Studied Chinese ink painting with Lui Shou-Kwan at Extra Mural Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong
1971 Co-founded One Art Group
1985 Taught art at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
1988 Residency at Artists’ Colonies, Chicago, United States
1991 Published Beyond the Painters’ Brush
1992 Published Art Talks, Art Circle
Taught art at the School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Starts practicing calligraphy
1993 Started adding calligraphy to his paintings
1998 Published The Hong Kong Art Scene
1999 Interviewed by CNN for his establishment in art as a calligrapher
2002 Calligraphic work was published as a Hong Kong stamp, and Inscription for Bauhinia Garden in Wanchai, Hong Kong
2005 Established studio Touchstone at Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2020 Speaker of Summer Talk Series: Development of Hong Kong Art, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Present Advisory of Jao Tsung-I Academy
Vice-Chairman of Hong Kong Writers Association, and Hong Kong Artists Association
Honorary President of the Chinese Poem, Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute (Lingnan Branch Campus)
Lives in Hong Kong
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
2018
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
A New Era of Ink Painting in Hong Kong: 1st Chinese Cultural Festival, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
2022
New Rhythm of Line: Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Art, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
2020
2016
Being and Inking: Documenting Contemporary Ink Art 2001-2016, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
2015
2007
SELECTED AWARDS
1979 Urban Council Art Biennale Fine Art Award (Chinese Painting), Hong Kong
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, USA
1994 Calligraphy Prize, Hong Kong Art Biennale, Hong Kong
2005 Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Achievements in Arts, Hong Kong
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale Collection
National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
University of Nanyang, Singapore
National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
M+, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chase Manhattan Bank, Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific Airlines, Hong Kong
American Club, Hong Kong
Museum Luis de Camões, Macau
