Hung Fai (b. 1988, Hong Kong) graduated from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. Informed by contemporary artistic practices, Hung developed unique expressions that fused visual with conceptual languages, and expanded the boundaries of ink art. Through deconstruction of elements in traditional Chinese ink paintings, Hung creates conceptual framework that enable the perceptual painting process be poetically imbued and transformed into rich visual imageries.
Hung has been exhibited in museums, institutions, galleries and art fairs including Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2024; The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2017; Wild Imagination - Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao from 2000 to 2020, Guangdong Museum of Art, 2020; Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Kathmandu, 2022; Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong, 2020.
His recent group exhibitions and fairs include Alien Shores: Landscape, once removed, White Cube Bermondsey, 2025; Art Basel Hong Kong (2014-2025) ; Fine Art Asia (2013-2025) and Ink Asia (2015-2019). His solo exhibitions include The Departing Landscape - Hung Fai Ink Project, (2016) and Movement - Hung Fai (2014) both at Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong; Hung has received the Gold Prize - Liu Kuo-sung Ink Art Award 2022; Certificate of Merit - The Twelfth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, China 2014.
His work is in the collections of M+, Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada and numerous private collections.