BIOGRAPHY
Fung Ka-fai was born in Hong Kong during the British colonial period. As a teenager, he began creating art while attending a church secondary school. After experiencing his family circumstances, he worked with a renovation craftsman at the age of 17 to pave his way to becoming an artist. In his youth, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Hong Kong Arts School and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). As an adult, he briefly studied in a classical oil painting workshop at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, later traveling to various countries to absorb diverse cultures. His main research focuses on symbols in Western culture, combining classical painting techniques with contemporary narrative concepts.
He was invited by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government to reside and exhibit at the Tainan Arts Festival. With funding from the Hong Kong government, he engaged in cultural exchanges at INSTINC in Singapore. Subsequently, he received commissions from the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Limited, and 480.0 for public art projects, exhibiting at Workshop52 with the support of the Pure Art Foundation. In recent years, he participated in group exhibitions for public and became an artist with Art Bridger, showcasing his work during Art March in Collect Hong Kong 2025 and creating art at Soho House Hong Kong.
Fung's work often features symbolic imagery from Western culture and history, with narratives woven throughout. He sometimes creates paintings on panels, paper or canvas, which have become a distinctive part of his classical-style triptych installations. The symbols he chooses carry specific meanings, reflecting memories of Western cultural power, commentary on social issues, and themes of psychology, struggle, and cultural evolution. Given the varying cultural perspectives and sensibilities of viewers, his works are sometimes open to different interpretations, or even misinterpreted as ambiguous images. In this state, he and his artworks are going towards the commercial art market.
馮家暉出生於英屬時期香港，少年時在教會中學便嘗試創作，因家境問題，17歲時跟隨裝修師匠工作，為成為藝術家鋪路。青年工餘時在香港藝術學院和皇家墨爾本理工大學（RMIT）修得藝術學士學位。成年在意大利佛羅倫斯美院（Florence Academy of Art）短期進修古典油畫工作坊，後旅居多國吸收多元文化。主要研究西方文化中的符號，結合古典畫技和當代概念的述事繪畫做創作。
他曾受邀於臺南市政府文化局在台南藝術節中駐留和展出，及在香港政府資助下於新加坡INSTINC進行文化交流。隨後分別獲香港藝術中心、會德豐地產(香港)有限公司和480.0的委託進行公共藝術創作，在Pure Art Foundation支持下於Workshop52展出。近年參加公開的聯展，並成為Art Bridger藝橋的藝術家，藝術三月期間於藝術博覽2025展出及在Soho House Hong Kong進行駐留創作。
他研究了不少西方文化和歷史中的符號，畫面中往往充滿故事性，有時候會在板、紙或畫布面上繪畫，這類創作成為了他澱定仿古典三聯裝置式的創作。他所選擇的符號具有特定意義，它們常常反映出西方文化力量的回憶，反映關於社會現象的問題；或者表達心理、鬥爭、文明演進這些類別的主題。基於觀者的文化認知和程度不同，他的作品往往有不同的解讀，甚或被誤解為意味不明的圖畫。目前，他和他的作品正向著商業市場進發。
COMMISSIONED ARTWORK / COLLABORATE ORGANISATION
Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government
Hong Kong Art Centre
Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Limited
INSTINC
Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW)
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
2025 Collection Hong Kong 2025, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2025 The True Value of Art, Soho House, Hong Kong
2024 一體N面 Sway group exhibition, JCCAC, Hong Kong
2023 The Collectible Art Fair, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2017 From Outside Of The Inside, Workshop 52 (Pure Art Foundation), Hong Kong
2017 "Micro - implantation", Second “Nagist” Art Exhibition, KONG Art Space, Central, Hong Kong
2017 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, INSTINC, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2017 “Bystander” Exhibition, 480.0 Gender & Art Space, Hong Kong
2016 " No-body Discourse" – First “Nagist” Art Exhibition, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 INSTINC, Singapore
2016 Urban Serenity: the house of nature, One Homantin Sales Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 5th Alumni Exhibition 2016, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
2016 Next Art Tainan, MuMu Gallery, Taiwan
2015 Hong Kong Art School Art Fair' 15, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2014 5.5 Sense, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2012 Market Forces, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 "Naked" Exhibition, Hong Kong Art School, JCCAC, Hong Kong
2011 “Wood Again” Recycled wood sculpture exhibition, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong