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Fung Ming Chip 馮明秋
Photo ? Sin Sin Man
b. 1951 in Guangdong, China,
Fung moved to Hong Kong and worked after completing primary school. In 1977, he moved
to New York. He has been living between New York, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1986. He
settled down in Hong Kong in 2006.
A self-taught artist who has been active as a sculptor, photographer, playwright, poet, and
seal carver as well as calligrapher, Fung Ming Chip has excavated new layers of conceptual
and structural freedom within seal carving and calligraphy’s organic terrain of word and
form. Fung concluded that calligraphy is an art of time and space, and therefore is closer to
music and dance than to Chinese literature. Using his original compositions, key words or
Buddhist scripture as the text, the structure of the character became the choreography for
the brush.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong, China
M. Sutherland Fine Arts, New York, USA
2012
Mandarin Oriental, Miami, Fl, USA
Art Platform – Los Angeles, USA
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“To Be & Not To Be”, The Private Museum, Singapore
2011
Asia One Art Fair, Hong Kong
Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA
2010
Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong, China Selected
2009
Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2007
Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2006
"Recent Work, Fung Ming Chip", Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
Leda Fletcher Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Leda Fletcher Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005
"Beginning of Infinity", Neuhoff Gallery, New York, USA
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA
"Abstract Forms", Art Beatus, Hong Kong, China
2004
"Rational Line", Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK
2002
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Gallery Saka, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2000
Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK
1999
"Fung Ming Chip Solo Exhibition", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Fung Ming Chip Solo Exhibition", Tsing Hwa University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan
"Fung Ming Chip Solo Exhibition", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Caligrafia Chinesa de Fung Ming-Chip", Fundacao Orient, Casa Garden, Macau, China
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1998
"Fung Ming Chip Solo Exhibition", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1997
"Fung Ming Chip Solo Exhibition", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1995
"Party", Color Field Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
1994
"Sculpture", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Value Transformation", Duchamp Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1993
"Dialogue Between Pictures and Words", Top Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Variations of Seal Carving", Taipei County Cultural Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
1992
"Logos and Method", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1991
"The Word by Fung Ming-Chip", Quart Society, Hong Kong, China
1990
"Root of the Words", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Root of the Words", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
1986
"The Seal 1975 - 1985", Asian Arts Institute, New York, USA
1984
"Photo Space", Catherine Gallery, New York, USA
"The Seal - Another Chapter", G&G Associates Fine Art, New York, USA
1982
"Lenscape", American Library, presented by American Consulate, Hong Kong, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Noirs D’Encre. Regards Croisés, Foundation Baur Musée des Arts D’Extreme-Orient, Genéve,
Switzerland
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2011
Ink Art vs Ink Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
2010
"Writing/Non-writing", China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
"Ink Art VS Ink Art", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009
"In Other Words", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
"Calligraffiti", Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2008
"New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
"Shenzhen Ink Biennial", Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
"Looking for Antonio Mak", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
2007
"Made In China", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Israel
Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
"The Act of Writing and of Non-Writing: The Open Space for Chinese Calligraphy",
International Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy 2005, Hangzhou, China
"The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art", Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, USA
2004
"Do A Book", Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA
2003
"Up Down Left Right - Modern Perception in Chinese Calligraphy", Plum Blossoms Gallery,
New York, USA
1999 - 2002
"Power of the Word" (International travelling exhibition)
2002
"Gestures", Neuhoff Gallery, New York, USA
"Paris - Pekin", Espace Cardin, Paris, France
"China", Museum Saap, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001
"The Rhythmic Line: Contemporary Calligraphy", Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
"Tradition and Experimentation: The Second Chinese Calligraphy - 2001", Ho's Gallery of
Calligraphy Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
"Tradition and Experimentation: The Second Chinese Calligraphy - 2001", Kaohsiung
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Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
"China Without Borders", Goedhuis Contemporary at Sotheby's, New York, USA
2000
"Tradition and Experimentation: Chinese Calligraphy of the Millennium", Ho's Gallery of
Calligraphy Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
"New Perspective on Contemporary Calligraphy - A Dialogue with Modern Sinitic Writing Art",
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
1999
"Tracing 2000", Color Field Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
"Medium Transposition", Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation Art Center, Taiwan
"Avant Gardes en Chine", Galerie LOFT, Paris, France
1998
"A Taiwan Decade", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Fans", Color Field Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
1997
"The Year of the Ox", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"Before 1997", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
"Stream Segment", Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA
1996
"Asia Pacific Heritage Month", Mass Transit Authority Headquarters, New York, USA
1995
"Looking Through Lines", Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
1994
"Flowering in the West", Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York, USA
1993
"In the Chinese spirit" Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
"Group Sculpture Exhibition", Color Field Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
"Group Sculpture Exhibition", Duchamp Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1992
"The Way of Calligraphy", Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1990
"Chinesische Kalligraphie", Galerie Lommel, Germany
1988
"Words, Words, Words", Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
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1985
"Contemporary Primitive", ABC No Rio, New York, USA Asian Arts Institute, New York, USA
"Asian Artists Show", 'A' Gallery, New York, USA
1984
"Gorilla Art Show", Avenue B Gallery, New York, USA
"Small Works Exhibitio", Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, USA
1983
"Self-Portrait", The Landmark, Hong Kong, China
La MaMa Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Canada
1977
Hong Kong City Hall
Special Projects
2008
"Les Poemes du Mandarin Tableware Collection", Hermes, France
2007
Mural: "Inner Universe", Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
Artist in Residence: Jesus College, Cambridge University, U.K.
Playwright, Director & Novelist
1992
"Curios Dealer's Mermaid", Tai Ya Publishing Co., Ltd., Taiwan
1986 - 1988
Playwright and director of six dramas in Taipei, Taiwan
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Selected Public and Private Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
Princeton University Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England
The Olenska Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Estella Collection
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
United Airlines, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China
Mobil Oil, Hong Kong, China
China Club, Hong Kong, China
Shanghai Tang, Hong Kong and New York, USA
Westin Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan
Ju Ming Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan
Fundacao Oriente, Macau, China
