Yau Wing Fung Chinese, b. 1990

Yau Wing Fung (b. 1990, Hong Kong) received his master’s degree in Fine Arts and bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. (Art History) in CUHK. Yau’s works span across a range of genres and mediums, including traditional and contemporary ink, calligraphy, and installation. His recent paintings combine traditional aesthetics with a contemporary influence by mobilizing the vocabulary of classical landscape painting through the aerial perspective of remote sensing images. Yau’s installations expand the spatial relationship between viewer and representation of landscape by reframing traditional landscape paintings.

Those installations reinterpret the idea of “sceneries shifting with the movement of every step,” a saying that describes the viewing experience of traditional Chinese landscape painting. Yau centralizes the concepts of “guan” (观) and “yuan” (远) in his artistic practice. “Guan” refers to viewers’ imagination of a space that expands outside the limited picture frame. “Yuan” inspires people to look beyond the visible and finite toward the boundless and infinite. “‘Guan’ represents my internal perceptions and reactions when I encounter an object; ‘yuan’ represents my spiritual direction when I depict the object,” Yau wrote. His works offer new expressions of “guan” and “yuan” by reconfiguring perspective, pictorial depth, the balance between emptiness and solidness, and surface texture.

Yau has held seven solo shows in New York, Hong Kong and Macau. Yau’s works also appeared in international exhibitions, such as “Wu Bin: Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). His works have been garnered by public organizations and private collections, including the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Landmark (Hong Kong), and Cathay Pacific Airline.