CIRCLE-24 member: Joseph FUNG - Hong Kong

CIRCLE-24: about Joseph FUNG ..

"Exploring into the realm of "Virtual Photo-Realism" creating photographic work without the need of camera, film & even the context of the real world."
Joseph Fung

Hua-Long restaurant in Qinghai (China)

Joseph Fung is an artist and art lecturer from Hong Kong. I think you can see much of Joseph's cultural background in his work
Joseph Fung was a member of CIRCLE-24
"Numerous key galleries and museums such as HKMoA, Hong Kong Museum of Art have featured Joseph Fung's work in the past. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Joseph Fung is featured in New Horizons: Ways of Seeing Hong Kong Art in the 80s and 90s, a piece from Artomity in April 2021." www.mutualart.com

Joseph Fung - Hong Kong (1938 Guangzhou, China)

His exhibitions have included several solo shows in Hong Kong and Taiwan and his works have been part of touring exhibitions in USA and Japan. 

1956-60 Studied at the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
1979-81 Co-ordinator and lecturer, Certificate Course of Commercial Photography, Extramural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
1981-88 Founder, co-ordinator and lecturer of ‘Photo Center’
1983 One-man show, ‘Glimpses of Mainland China’, Dr Sun’s Memorial
Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
1985 One-man show ‘Tales of Two Cities - Taipei and Shenzhen’, Hong
Kong
1987 Awarded MFA(Photography), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
1989 One-man show, ‘Recent Works of Joseph Fung’, sponsored by the
Hong Kong Arts Centre
1990-present Member of the Executive Committee, Hong Kong Artists’ Guild
1992 Group show, ‘Contemporary Chinese Photographers’, touring in
the United States
1992-93 Member of the Selection Panel, ‘Artists of the Year Awards, 92’, HK
Artists’ Guild and the Urban Council

e-mail: joe@joseph-fung.net

website: http://joseph-fung.net

blindspotgallery.com/artist/joseph-fung/ 01-04-2024