KOON Wai-bong

管偉邦

 

KOON Wai-bong is an ink artist, who received his B. and MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his D.F.A. from RMIT University. He attained the Rising Artist Award (2003) and Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award (2009), and entered International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen (2010) and Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial (2012). Besides, he held solo exhibitions such as Now and Then (2013) at Grotto Fine Art, TRANSpose (2013) at The Museum of East Asian Art, UK, and In the Breeze (Taipei, 2017), Shén Yóu (Beijing, 2019) and Watching the Clouds Roll By (Shanghai, 2021) at Asia Art Center. He also joined various museum shows including Ink Art vs Ink Art (2010 and 2011) at Hong Kong Museum of Art and Shanghai Art Museum, The Weight of Lightness (2017) at M+, and Classics Remix (2019) at Hong Kong Museum of Art. Besides, he exhibited across Hong Kong, Mainland, Taiwan, US, UK, Germany, Belgium and Singapore, and his artworks have been collected by Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University, M+, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Associate Professor of The Hong Kong Baptist University.

管偉邦,香港當代水墨藝術家,於香港中文大學取得文學學士及藝術碩士,並於澳洲皇家墨爾本理工大學修畢藝術博士學位。管氏曾獲「藝術新進獎」(2003及「香港當代藝術雙年獎」(2009);參與《第七屆深圳國際水墨雙年展》(2010)及《台北國際現代水墨雙年展》(2012);舉辦多個個展包括嘉圖現代藝術《此時彼地》(2013、英國東亞藝術博物館《TRANSpose》(2013;以及 亞洲藝術中心《清風徐來》(台北,2017)、《神遊》(北京,2019)及《坐看雲起》(上海,2021);及多個藝術館展覽包括香港藝術館及上海美術館《水墨對水墨》(2010及2011)、M+《似重若輕》(2017)、香港藝術館《原典變奏 》(2019)。 管氐作品曾於香港、中國、台灣、美國、英國、德國、比利時和新加坡等地展出,亦為多地收藏,其中有美國三藩市亞洲藝術博物館、洛杉磯郡藝術博物館、牛津大學阿什莫林博物館、M+、香港藝術館及香港中文大學文物館。現任為香港浸會大學副教授。