Our Artists
CHENG Ka-yan
Ka-yan is lively and cheerful. She loves sports, singing and dancing. For painting, her favorite themes are words from advertisement, portraits of historical figures or characters from legends as well as buddhas.
In her early-stage painting, she was unable to keep the scale of the objects in a work. Quite often, she would find no more space available to complete all the images in the end. Thus, many of her earlier paintings were out of proportion. After a year’s practice, she had significant improvement in applying the technique of proportion, and the faces of the portraits became more consistent. Her paintings were more colourful because she has become more skillful in both color selection and mixing. Objects painted by her, no matter they are figures, articles and things or landscapes all carry a flavor of childlike innocence. The brush strokes of her works are simple and smooth while colors are bright and pleasant. They are very pleasing when you watch them.
Ka-yan also does another creation: paper-cutting. In fact, she has been doing calligraphy on paper scraps for some time. The words she writes are all about her daily living or the impressive terms she heard from the television programs. She keeps piles of these terms in her mind. She cuts the terms out from paper and presents them before us in rich and bright colors. What we see, in fact, is the memory of an era of Hong Kong.
Art Experience
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2014 |
"Paintings in Dance II: Time – Flow – White", The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Art Course (3-Year) Annual Showcase, Jao Tsung-I Academy, Hong Kong Asia Contemporary Art Show 2014, Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong Trans Pacific Ties Bridging Hong Kong and Los Angeles Through Art, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles |
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2015 |
i-dArt Art Course (3 Year), JCCAC L0 Gallery, Hong Kong Asia Contemporary Art Show 2015, Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong Artwork selected in Big-I Art Project 2015 "Hong Kong Picture" - CHENG Ka-yan Paper Art Collage Exhibition, i-dArt Space, Hong Kong Artwork selected in SPARK Festival |
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2016 |
Artwork selected in Big-I Art Project 2016 Art Exchange Tour in Japan i-dArt, Art Course (3-Year) 1st Graduation Show, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery Graduated at i-dArt Art Course (3-Year) Artwork selected for the design of picture book |
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2017 |
Collaboration with local artist Karena LAM on a limited book set Participated in International Exhibition for Disabled People, Wuhan, CHINA Asian Contemporary Art Show 2017, Hong Kong Hotel Conrad, Hong Kong Artwork selected in Big-I Art Project 2017 i-dArt-in-Residence cum Exhibition, Lanson Place Hotel, Hong Kong |
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2018 |
Kyushu Art Tour |
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2019 |
“TWO SLICES OF LIFE” Joint Art Exhibition Japan x Hong Kong, i-dArt Space, Hong Kong |
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2021 |
Artwork was exhibited in the 2021 PARAART TOKYO International Exchange Exhibition "Drawns of 36 Deities", Sun Museum, Hong Kong |
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2023 |
"Existence · Her Power" - International Female Contemporary Art Exhibition, Exhibition Hall of Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong Japan Art Tour |
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2024 |
“Art Dream Take Flight” Music Show, Quarryside Dockyard Theatre, Hong Kong "Dreamscape" - Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Rehabilitation Service Units Group Exhibition, JCCAC L0 gallery, Hong Kong |
CHENG Ka-yan's Artwork
