Hong Wai (born 1982) is a digital artist and Chinese ink painter based in Paris and Macao. She journeys with ink to a new frontier, that of the mysterious feminine, though the technique has been confined to a masculine universe for centuries.
Her works were exhibited worldwide, from Macao, Hong Kong, Shanghai,Taiwan, Singapore, Melbourne, New York, Montreal, London, Paris, featured in various exhibitions, art fairs and international publications. Her doctoral studies are on the deceased ink painter Wu Guangzhong.

Hong’s latest joint exhibition was Art Taipei Art Fair, Art Stage Singapore and Art Central in Hong Kong.
Hong Wai, born in Shanghai raised in Macao, she is an ink transmedia artist based in Paris and Macao.

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ART FAIRS and EXHIBITIONS
2016 - Jointe exhibition in Sotheby's Gallery, Hong Kong

2016 - Jointed exhibition in Galerie Fabienne Fiacre, Paris

2015 - Jointed exhibition in Galerie Livart, Paris

2015 - Art Taipei Art Fair

2015 - Art Central, Hong Kong

2015 - Art Stage Singapore

2014 - Art Taipei Art Fair 2014, 31 October to 3 November

2014 - KIAF - Korea International Art Fair in Seoul, 25-29 September 2014

2014 - Art Southampton Art Fair in New York, 24-28 July

2014 - Solo show in Pairs Gallery Livart during FIAC, octobre 2014

2014 - Solo exhibition in AP Contemporary

2014 - Jointe exhibition " L'Art Chinois" in MGM Macao, French May Festival program.

2014 - Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong

2014 - Joint exhibition in Lisboa Oriente Museum, in Lisbon, Portugal, from 13th Feb to 27 April

2014- Forbidden Sins-- HONG Wai Pop Ink in Art For All Gallery Macao, Beijjing.

2013 - Joint exhibition "Like Thunder Out of China". Arsenal Montreal Contemporary Art Center, Canada. Exhibited artists included Ai Weiwei, Qiu Jie, Gao Brothers, Hung Tunglu, Cang Xin, Wu Junyong and Hong Wai.

2013 - Affordable Art Fair, New York, Hong Kong, Singapoure

2013 - The 1st Art Macao Art Fair, Macao.

2013 - Joint exhibition "Reinvention - Macao Contemporary 2012", MGM Casino Macao.

2012 - Joint exhibition "Private View" curated by Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr. Gallery GRC, Paris, France, Exhibited artists included Ai Weiwei, Cai Guoqiang, Cang Xin, Qiu Zhijie, and other famous contemporary Chinese artists.

2012 - Joint exhibition "Time, Through the Eyes of Art", curated by Singapore Magazine Nu You Time. Ten award-winning artists from different disciplines have been asked to interpret time using their own art form as a celebration of the magazine's 10th anniversary. The double-cover collector's edition, is featured with an double page interview of artist Hong Wai and her works. Singapore ION Art Gallery, Singapore.

2012 - FID (Foire Internationale du Dessin - International Drawing Art Fair), Paris, France.

2012 - Art Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia.

2012 - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong.

2012 - Affordable Art Fair Singapore

2007 - Joint exhibition "1001 Femme", Gallery Serpentine, Paris, France.

2007 - Solo exhibition "A Whim, A Bloom", Gallery IMPRESSIONS, Paris, France.

2006 - Solo exhibition "A Whim, A Bloom", UMA Gallery, Hong Kong.

2006 - Solo exhibition A Whim, A Bloom", Théâtre Les Déchargeurs, Paris, France.

2006 - Solo exhibition "Le Gène - Le Fleur", shortlisted as Paris Junior Outstanding Artists (Paris Jeunes Talents 2005), Centre d'animation Clavel, Paris, France.

2006 - Solo exhibition "A Whim, A Bloom", Pall Mall Deposit, London, UK.

2004-2005 - Touring solo exhibition "Le Gène - Le Visage", Macao, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan.

2005 - Solo exhibition "Le Gene Le visage", DENG KUN YAN Workshop, Shanghai, China.

2004 - Solo exhibition "The Infiltration of the City of Taipei", Magasin Misukoshi, Taipei, Taiwan.

2002 - Solo exhibition "A New Era Of Dream", Taipei, Taiwan.

2000 - First solo painting exhibition at UNESCO of Macao, some of the exhibits are still represented by UNESCO Centre, Macao.

PUBLICATIONS
- Chinese ink painting " Smile of Mao" was selected to be in the book "ART MAO- The Big Title Red Book of Maoist Art Since 1949", Horizons Editions, April 2014.

- HONG Wai Art ink series cross over with the famous Scotch Whisky The Singleton of Glen Ord 38 Year Old. Order work by La Vie magazine, Taiwan, for the article in Octobre 2013.

- Le visage, le gène, art work catalogue, published by Macao Artist Society, Macao, September 2004, 50 pages. ISBN : 978-9-9937-6323-9.

- Article "Loisir et liberté de création à partir du cas de Wu Guanzhong", inCulture du loisir, art et esthétique, under the direction of Yolaine Escande and Johanna Liu, edited by You Feng édition, Paris, décembre 2010, P. 171-183.

- Interview with Chinese artist WU Guanzhong, Translator of his first French Complete catalogue Wu Guanzhong, collection - Mains et Merveilles. Edition La différence, Paris, May 2007, 27cm X 29cm, 350 pages; under the direction of Yolaine. ISBN : 978-2-7291-1687-3. Read Less

2012 - Finalist of FID (Foire Internationale du Dessin - International Drawing Art Fair), Paris, France

2007 to 2010 - Art scholarships for Ph.D of Arts in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), received from Macao Foundation, Macao, China

2005 - Shortlisted in Paris Jeunes Talents (Paris Junior Outstanding Artists), solo exhibition organised by Le Maire de Paris, Paris, France

2000 - Awarded as New Talent of “XVII collective exhibition of Macao , Macao, China Read Less