BIOGRAPHY
Fung Ka-fai was born in Hong Kong during the British colonial period. During his youth, he traveled to the United States and was deeply influenced by the culture there. He was born in the ordinary level, after experiencing the handover of power between Britain and China, and struggling to adapt to the cultural changes and family hardships, he began working as an apprentice with a renovation worker at the age of 17. This allowed him to learn skills like painting, carpentry, and assembly, laying the foundation for his path towards becoming an artist. Fung was heavily influenced by the cultures of Japan, Europe, and the US, as well as his background in missionary schools. He started experimenting with creative work from a young age. He later studied at the Hong Kong Art School and RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from RMIT, and late studied classical oil painting in Italy Florence Academy for a short period of time. As an adult, he has lived and worked in the UK, Taiwan, the US, and Canada.
Fung has worked in art and cultural development for organisations like Disneyland and charities for many years, while also continuing to study and research Western historical and cultural symbols, which he incorporates into his creative work. In 2016, he was invited by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government (Taiwan) to be an artist-in-residence and exhibit his work at the Tainan Art Festival. That same year, he exhibited and did cultural exchange in INSTINC (Singapore) with the support of the Hong Kong Labour and Welfare Bureau. Subsequently, he was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Limited and Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW) to create and exhibit work for public art. He has also exhibited at Workshop52 in the Ming Pao Industrial Building, supported by the Pure Art Foundation.
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，在他少年的時候曾到美國旅遊，深受文化影晌。他出生於基層，經歷回歸英中權力的交接，在難適應文化變遷和家道中落的情況下，他在17歲時得開始跟著裝修師傅工作，然而，這讓他學會一些油漆、木工和組裝的技術，為踏上藝術家的道路鋪設。他深受日、歐、美文化和教會學校背景的影響，並且在少年時期，開始嘗試創作。之後求學於香港藝術學院和Rmit(皇家墨爾本理工大學)，於Rmit取得藝術學士，後曾在意大利Florence Academy of Art(佛羅倫斯美院)短期進修古典油畫。成年後旅居英國、臺灣、美國、加拿大等地方。
他曾為迪士尼樂園和慈善機構，從事美術、藝術發展工作多年，同時，保持學習和研究西方歷史文化中的符號，加以投入創作當中。2016年，他曾獲台灣台南市政府文化局邀請註留創作，於台南藝術節展出，同年在香港政府勞福局資助下，於星加坡INSTINC展出及文化交流。其後，獲香港藝術中心、會德豐地產有限公司和關注婦女性暴力協會，為公共藝術作委任創作和展出，並在Pure Art Foundation資助下，於明報週刊工業大廈的Workshop52展出。
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
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