Wucius Wong

Born in 1936 in Guangdong Province. Studied art and design in the United States from 1961 to 1965. Awarded study grant by the John D. Rockefeller III Fund in 1971, Lifetime Achievement Award in by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2016, and Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal by the SAR Government in 2007. Worked as Executive Assistant of the Extramural Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1966, Assistant Curator of the City Museum and Art Gallery from 1966 to 1972, and Principal Lecturer of the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic from 1972 to 1984. He participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial of Brazil in 1961, the Shanghai Biennial in 1998, and the “China: 5,000 Years” presented by the Guggenheim Museum at New York in 1998 and at Bilbao in 1999. Retrospective exhibition presented by the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2006, and by the Macao Government in 2010. His work is represented in the collections of numerous museums, institutions and corporations in Hong Kong, China, United States, and UK. He authored many books on art and design first published in English in New York, with later editions in Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese editions. Now Adjunct Professor of the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Expert Adviser to the Leisure and Culture Department of the Hong Kong Government, and founder and permanent chairman of the Hong Kong Ink Painting Association.