Chow Chun Fai

Born in Hong Kong in 1980, Chow Chun Fai graduated from the New Asia
College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained a Bachelor of
Arts degree in 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2006. Chow is one
of the founders of Fotanian art movement and he was the chairman of the
Fotanian Artist Village in Fo Tan, Hong Kong. In addition, Chow is one of the
few artists actively engaged in politics, having once run for a cultural post in
the Hong Kong Legislative Council, and his works usually convey messages
about politics or the current Hong Kong society. He was the Artist-in-
Residence at the Himalayas Art Museum and his works have been exhibited
all over the world including Saatchi Gallery in London, Hong Kong Art Biennial
Exhibition, Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair, Liverpool
Biennial, Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition in Jeonbuk Korea and the Young
Chinese Contemporary Art exhibition in Austria. Chow has twice been a
finalist of the Philippe Charriol Foundation Annual Art Competition as well as
the first prize winner of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and received the Hong
Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Grand Prize. His works are collected by
the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and other
private collectors.

"Taxi is an important subject during my early career." Chow Chun
Fai continued to depict taxis with a brand new artistic approach,
appropriating the teasing and replication coming from media and
internet in order to express his social and political concerns, as
well as to profile Hong Kong at the moment.