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Dr. CHAN Kwun Nam, Phil

Associate Curator (Painting & Calligraphy)
Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Fellowship Project

Dr. Chan Kwun Nam (Phil) spent seven months (January – August 2019) at the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey, U.S.A. where he studied the colophons and inscriptions in the Song and Yuan painting and calligraphy collections, as well as Ming and Qing letters. He also assisted in exhibition projects and received curatorial training at the museum.

Biography

Dr. Chan Kwun Nam (Phil) received his Ph.D. from the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is currently an Associate Curator (Painting and Calligraphy) in the Art Museum, CUHK, with a research interest in Ming, Qing and Modern Chinese calligraphy and paintings, in particular the relationship between Chinese poems and paintings, and the history of connoisseurship and collections. His recent research focuses on Chinese letters, Lanting artifacts and works of Dong Qichang in the collection of the Art Museum, CUHK.

Recent Development and Achievement

    • Principal Investigator, “Studies of Chinese Letters in the Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum & Art Museum, CUHK”, Princeton University Art Museum & Art Museum, CUHK, 2019 to present.
    • Co-investigator, “Hong Kong Impressions”, Art Museum, CUHK, 2019-2020.
    • Co-investigator, “Studies of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum”, Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.
    • Principal Investigator, ” Dong Qichang in the Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK”, Art Museum, CUHK, 2017 to present.
    • Principal Investigator, ” Sincere Brush: Works of Ting Yin-yung Courtesy of His Students and Friends in the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK “, Art Museum, CUHK, 2017-2019.
    • Principal Investigator, ” Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering and Its Related Artifacts in the Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK”, Art Museum, CUHK, 2016 to present.
    • Co-investigator, “The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting”, sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. Art Museum, CUHK, 2015-2019.

Selected Publication(s)

Dissertations

Books and Catalogues

  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (forthcoming). Minghua quanji [Entries]. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (Ed.). (2018). Sincere Brush: Works of Ting Yin-yung Courtesy of His Students and Friends in the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK. Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (Ed.). (2018). Legacy of the Heavenly Breeze: The Art of Gao Qifeng, Chao Shao-an & Au Ho-nien. Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Tong, K. T., & Chan, K. N. (Phil). (Eds.). (2017). A Field in Bloom: Highlights of Chinese Arts to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK. Hong Kong: Art Museum & Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Mok, H., & Chan, K. N. (Phil). (Eds.). (2017). Enduring Presence: The Art of Professor Jao Tsung-i in the Collection of the Department of Fine Arts and Art Museum, CUHK. Hong Kong: Art Museum & Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (Ed.). (2016). Erudition in Ink: The Calligraphy of Sheung Chung-ho. Hong Kong: Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Articles

  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). Three of Five: The Collecting History of the “Three Letters” by Mi Fu in the Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. RECORD, 2020 (79-80), 68 – 88. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2020). The Artistic Life of Wong Po-yeh and His Paintings in the Theme of Hong Kong. ICS Bulletin, 2020(4), 1-9.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2019). Colophon by Wang Wenzhi on Ke Jiusi’s Shangjing Palace Poems. Shu yu Hua, 2019(9), 43-47.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2019). Transcending Ancient-Modern and East-West: The Art of Ting Yin-yung from His Works of Class Demonstration. Artists, 2019(3), 31-38.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2019). Modelling on Spirit over Form: Chinese Paintings on the Bei Shan Tang Collection. (C. Y. Ip, Trans.) In Mok, H. (Ed.), The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting, Supplementary Catalogue, 27-32. Hong Kong: Art Museum and Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2018, November). The Art and Feeling of Mr Ting Yin-yung. Ming Pao Monthly, 635, 65-72.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2017). Bei Shan Tang and Its Collection of Chinese Calligraphy. Shu yu Hua, 2017(1), 32-37.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2016). Paintings by Wang Gong in the Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK. Orientations, 2016(11), 56-63.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2016). Pledging Allegiance to Wang Xizhi: Wang Wenzhi’s Copying of Ancient Calligraphies. (T. Liem, Trans.) In H. Mok (Ed.), Double Beauty III: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection, 52-61. Hong Kong: Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of HongKong.
  • Chan, K. N. (Phil). (2015). Lanting Preface, Version collected by the Wang’s Family of Zhongshan (No.4). Shufa Congkan, 2015(6), 50-57.
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