Preface

Digression under the Legume Rack

Profile of Chen Keng

Gallery

Date : 2000.10.12-2000.10.22
Time : 10:00am - 6:00pm (except Monday)
Venue
: Temporary Exhibitions Hall, The Museum of Macau.

Educational Background
1998  Won the American Vermont Arts Fund and went to study at the Vermont Studio Center in the USA.

1998  Engaged in the training course for postgraduate in the Department of Oil Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

1992      Engaged in advanced studies from the Central Academy of Industrial Arts.

1985-1989      Graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and was granted a Bachelor's degree (B.A. in Fine Arts).

 

Social Post and Rank
1995      Working as a specially engaged painter in Guangzhou Painting Academy.

1995  A member of the standing council of Guangzhou Folk Artists' Association.

1994      Secretary general of Guangzhou Young Artists' Association.

1990  A member of Guangdong Provincial Municipal Artists' Association.

1989  A member of Guangzhou Municipal Artists' Association.

 

Works Awarded
1999.12      An oil painting won the Golden Prize on the exhibition of Artistic, Calligraphic and Photo Works in Guangzhou.

1999.10      An oil painting won the First Prize on the Guangdong Provincial Competition of Artistic, Calligraphic and Photo Works for celebrating Macau's Return to the Motherland.

1999.10      An oil painting won the Golden Prize for the 5th Anniversary of Guangzhou Arts Month.

1999.07      An oil painting won the Silver Prize on Guangzhou Exhibition of Artistic Works for the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of China.

1999.01      An oil painting won the Star Prize on the 8th exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of China.

1991.01      An oil painting won the Second Prize on the Guangdong Provincial Competition of Artistic, Calligraphic and Photo Works.

1992.06      A Chinese painting won the Excellent Painting Award on the 11th Asian Games Sports Artistic Works Exhibition Guangdong.

1990.08      “The Fair Maidens in Fashion from the East” – a series of pictures won the Excellent Painting Award for “Ten Best” series of pictures in China.

1989.11      An oil painting won Excellent Painting Award on Guangzhou Exhibition of Artistic Works for the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of China.

1988.12      An oil painting won Excellent Painting Award at Art Exhibition in Guangzhou.

1986.09      “Wild Peony Flower” - a story in pictures won the first “Golden Ring Award” for series of pictures in China.

1984.10      An oil painting won the Second Prize on the Art Exhibition of the 1st Art Festival in Guangzhou.

1983.06      An oil painting won the Second Prize on the Exhibition of Art Amateur in Guangdong Province.

1982.10      An oil painting won the Excellent Painting Award at Art Exhibition in Guangzhou.

 

Works Exhibited
2000      Guangzhou Youth Arts Exhibition in the New Millenium.

1999      Guangdong Provincial Artistic Works Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of China.

1997      International Artistic Works Exhibition at the Vermont Studio Center in the USA.

1996      Exhibition of Artistic Works from Guangzhou Academy of Painting in Beijing.
 
Guangzhou Municipal Youth Artistic Works Exhibition.

1995  Art Exhibition of Guangzhou Academy of Painting.      Guangzhou Provincial Art Exhibition.

1990      Exhibition of Chinese Art in Hong Kong.      
The 11th Asian Games Sports Artistic Works Exhibition Exhibition of Ten Artists in Guangzhou.

1989      Guangzhou Art Exhibition.    
Guangdong Provincial Education of Watercolour Paintings.

1988      Guangzhou Art Exhibition.

1985      Exhibition of Artistic Works of Chinese Youth for International Youth Year ’85.

Works Collected
2000  An oil painting by Christie's International Auction Society.

1997  An oil painting by the Vermont Studio Center in the USA.

1994  An oil painting by Guangzhou Art Gallery.

1993  An oil painting by Mr. Zeng Xianzi, a celebrity in Hong Kong.

1991  An oil painting by Mr. Fok Yingdong, the vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and president of China Chamber of Commerce.

1990  A Chinese painting by Mr. Michael Parsons, an American Philippino in Duntog Foundation Inc.

 

Works Published
1981-2000      Some of his oil paintings and Chinese paintings are introduced in the magazines and newspapers of China and Hong Kong