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Chak Kwong Daniel LAU (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.Phil., The University of Hong Kong) is Associate Professor and Associate Director (Research) of the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU and Member of the China Calligraphers Association. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at both Peking University and Academic Sinica, Taipei. Before joining HKBU, he taught at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and the University of California (UCSB), where he received the GSA Outstanding Teaching Award Honorable Mention in Humanities and Fine Arts.
Lau pursues research as both a scholar and an artist. He is an art historian specialising in Chinese art, Chinese calligraphy, seal engraving, art and identity in late imperial China and Hong Kong calligraphy, with a particular focus on social and cultural implications of Chinese calligraphy in public venues in Hong Kong, modes of expression and representation in Chinese calligraphy, calligraphic materiality and multimodality. His work has been supported by research grants that include 3 General Research Funds (GRF) from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. He has published more than forty academic articles and exhibition catalogue entries on Chinese art, including contributions to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Proceedings of the Symposium on Artworks by Ming Loyalists in Early Qing Dynasty (Macao Museum of Art, 2018) and Double Beauty: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection I & II (Art Museum, CUHK, 2007 & 2003). Lau is an established artist whose practice encompasses Chinese calligraphy, seal engraving and the large-scale performance of Chinese calligraphy in public spaces. He has held 8 solo exhibitions in the United States, Hong Kong and Macau and participated in numerous influential group exhibitions at local and international museums and galleries. His calligraphy and seal engravings are in public collections, including those of the Art Museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong.
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Education/Academic qualification
MPhil, Chinese Art History, The University of Hong Kong
PhD, History of Art and Architecture, University of California at Santa Barbara
External positions
Visiting Scholar of Academia Sinica (中央研究院)
Visiting Scholar of Peking University (北京大學)
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The Art of Chinese Calligraphy by Han Yunshan 韓雲山書法藝術
12/03/18 → 23/09/19
Project: Digital scholarship project
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Social and Cultural Implications of Chinese Calligraphy in Public Venues in Hong Kong
1/01/18 → 30/06/20
Project: Research project
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"Chinese Calligraphy in Twentieth-Century Hong Kong: Viewing Art from Cultural, Social, and Economic Perspectives"
15/10/10 → 14/09/13
Project: Research project
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Couplet in Oracle Bone Script: A calligraphic work (as a collection of Hong Kong Museum of Art) selected and exhibited at Hong Kong Museum of Art in an exhibition, titled “ City Rhymes: The Melodious Notes of Calligraphy,” organized by Hong Kong Museum of Art, exhibition period: July 2022 - September 2023.
LAU, C. K., Jul 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Ink Dance at Historic Relics (Series 3): Site-specific Performance of Chinese Calligraphy conducted at Ex-Royal Air Force Station (1933-1978), a Grade 1 historic building/ Declared Monument of Hong Kong
LAU, C. K., Aug 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
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Wings of the Dawn Series: A series of calligraphic work (Series I: Site-specific performance of Chinese calligraphy, dimensions variable / Series II: ink on paper, framed, 100cm x 50cm)
Lau, C. K., Apr 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
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劉澤光個展: 從漢魏摩崖碑刻到簡帛墨跡
Lau, C. K., 4 Jun 2022Translated title of the contribution :Lau Chak Kwong Solo Exhibition:: From Cliff Inscriptions and Steles of the Han and Wei Dynasties to Works of Calligraphy in Ink in the Forms of Bamboo and Wooden Slip Inscriptions and Silk Texts Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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草隸讚美感恩聖經經文
Lau, C. K., Feb 2022Translated title of the contribution :Bible Verse on Praise and Thanksgiving in Cursive-clerical Script Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Activities
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“Couplet in Oracle Bone Script,” ink on paper, a pair of hanging scroll was selected (as a collection of Hong Kong Museum of Art) and exhibited at Hong Kong Museum of Art in an exhibition, titled “ City Rhymes: The Melodious Notes of Calligraphy,” (漢字城韻──書法中的詩舞畫樂) (Wbsite: https://hk.art.museum/en_US/web/ma/exhibitionsand-events/city-rhymes-the-melodious-notes-of-calligraphy.html ), organized by Hong Kong Museum of Art
Chak Kwong LAU (Participant)
Jul 2022 → Sept 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Cambria Press (Publisher)
Chak Kwong LAU (Reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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China Calligraphers Association (External organisation)
Chak Kwong LAU (Committee/panel/advisory board member)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board/committee/council
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Arts Advisor (Arts Education) of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (External organisation)
Chak Kwong LAU (Committee/panel/advisory board member)
2017 → 2019Activity: Membership › Membership of board/committee/council
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Member of CDC-HKEAA (One) Committee on Visual Arts (Senior Secondary) established by Curriculum Development Institute and Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority of the Hong Kong SAR Government (External organisation)
Chak Kwong LAU (Committee/panel/advisory board member)
2008 → 2013Activity: Membership › Membership of board/committee/council