Wilson Ka-ho Shieh

Born in 1970 in Hong Kong, Wilson Shieh graduated from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art in
1994 and a Master’s of Fine Art degree in 2001. His is part of the Artistic
Community in Fo Tan and has his studio there. Although Shieh specializes
in figure painting and uses Gongbi, a traditional Chinese fine-brush painting
technique, his works concern themselves with contemporary themes. He
works on various media ranging from Chinese ink drawing on silk to acrylic
on canvas to paper cutout collage and he focuses mainly on human bodies
as his theme for narration by transforming figuration through the means of
tailor-made costumes to explore the identity of modern people in current
society. A very established and well-known artist, Shieh was the winner in the
painting category of The Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition and
has exhibited on his own and publicly in multiple group exhibitions worldwide.
He has thrice exhibited in the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, MoCA
Shanghai, the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards, Shanghai Art Museum
and the Saatchi Gallery in London, to name a few. Shieh has done multiple
artist residencies and projects and is collected by the Asian Art Museum
in San Francisco, the British Council, Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Heritage
Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ Museum, the Ashmolean Museum,
University of Oxford, UK, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.