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From the Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery website: 1951: Born in Guangdong, China but raised in Hong Kong 1977: Moved to New York 1986-Present (2006): Living between New York and Taiwan "Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951, Guangdong, China) was born in a poor village in Guangdong and benefited from no more than primary school education before moving to New Jersey in the US with his family in 1977. Shortly thereafter his life was changed, he claims, when he discovered a hand-scroll by the 11th century calligrapher Mi Fu at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It convinced him that he had to look at the entire spatial field when he worked and give less emphasis to the formal coherence of the individual ideographic units. While symbolic forms in Fung's work are often whimsical or even erotic, the artist is serious about expanding the possibility of calligraphy into new areas. A major retrospective of the artist’s works was held in 1999 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and he has recently been Artist in Residence at Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK. He is one of the most important members of the new generation of modernist artists committed to revitalizing the calligraphic vocabulary and making it relevant to the modern world. He now lives in Beijing."