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Kong Kai-Ming is
a well-known artist and art instructor who was born in 1935 in Hong Kong. He
graduated from Hong Kong Fine Art School in 1954. In the past, he taught at
various institutions, such as the Hong Kong Fine Art School and the Extra-mural
Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with numerous students.
Kong's watercolor
paintings and sketching greatly reflect the beauty of nature. Due to his
impressive talent in art, a few years after his graduation, he had already
received the All China Youth Art Award (1958). In 1996, he was even awarded as
the Honorary Fellow of David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies of the Hong
Kong Baptist University.
Honorably, Kong
was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia by the HKSAR government at 2006 Honours and
Awards Ceremony in the Government House on 28 October 2006, praising his
life-long and highly significant contribution in art for 50 years.
On the other
hand, Kong held various exhibitions domestically and internationally. He held
his first one-man exhibition in Hong Kong in 1956. Since then, his works have
been widely exhibited and acclaimed in Japan, the United States of America,
Taiwan, Malaysia and Mainland China. Kong's painting ¡§PEEPING¡¨ is short listed
for the Annual Exhibition '92 held by America watercolour Society (AWS) in New
York. In November 92, he participated in the 'Art Galleries Fair RO.C.-1992
Taipei', at the World Trade Centre in Taipei. He held his one-man exhibition at
the Hong Kong Arts Center in May 1993 and then later Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Center in August 1994. A fine collection of Kong's works can also be
found in the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Art Museum of Guangzhou.
In recent years,
Kong is an advocate of the ¡§Art is Spiritual¡¨ theory and the applied ¡§Spirit¡¨ in
his study of art. He has insisted on pursuing arts with spiritual works and
humanity concern, for instance, his STONE ART MASTERPIECES particularly mirror
the attractiveness and majesty of his spiritual concept. He would like to share
his most precious and latest watercolor paintings publicly in the upcoming solo
exhibition.
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