LAMPO LEONG
Painter / Macau
ABOUT
Lampo Leong, PhD, is an internationally-acclaimed painter, calligrapher, photographer, new media artist and designer who received his PhD in Art Theory and Practice from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, his MFA in painting with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts, and his BFA in ink painting from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong is currently a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor and Director of Centre for Arts and Design at the University of Macau. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a former Art Department Chair, Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and has been named the Weiner Distinguished Professor at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. Leong has presented over 200 lectures across the US and Asia at international conferences and institutions such as Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, UC Davis, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, College Art Association 92nd Annual Conference, Yeongwol Museum International Forum in Korea, Sichuan University, Wuhan University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai University, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, and Tainan National University of the Arts. Leong has served as curator and judge for more than 20 art exhibitions, grants, and public art competitions, for example, the Best of America national juried exhibition, the 47th Annual Juried Exhibition by the Sumi-E Society of America, San Francisco Arts Commission and Missouri Arts Council.
HONOR
Leong's work has been featured in international contemporary art auctions such as Christie’s, Ravenel, Poly, etc., and in art expos and museums/galleries worldwide through 70 solo and over 350 national/international juried/curated group exhibitions, including Salon des Beaux Arts 2019 at the Carrousel de Louvre in Paris, The Art of Writing in Germany, Question at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, the International Contemporary Masters III at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Shining Stars: 4 Cultural Visionaries of Contemporary Painting at the Pacific Heritage Museum in San Francisco, Language Non Language at the Ethan Cohen Fine Art in New York, Art Asia 2019 at COEX in Seoul in South Korea, Singapore Contemporary Art Show, Art Taipei, the Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Art of China, the 7th, 11th and 13th National Fine Arts Exhibition in China, Re-Ink: Contemporary Ink Painting 2000-2012 at Today Art Museum in Beijing, The First Nanjing International Art Festival, AS-Helix: The Integration of Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the National Museum of China in Beijing, The Third Shenzhen International Photography Exhibition, Macao’s Proposed Artworks for the 54th Venice Biennale at the Museu de Arte de Macau, Art Central and Ink Global 2017 in Hong Kong. Leong has received over 70 awards and extensive recognition, including a Gold Award at the Creative Quarterly international art competition in New York and A’Design Award in Italy. Additionally, Leong has collaborated with composers and choreographers on video animations and multimedia performances, which have premiered in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kauffman Center for Performing Arts in Kansas City, Skaneateles Festival in New York, Musicacoustica-Beijing and Tanghu Museum of Art in China.
Leong’s works can be found in more than 10 museum and hundreds of notable corporate and private collections, including the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Macao Art Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Written Art Foundation in Germany, and The Tokyo Westin, as well as public art commissions for the Columbia City Hall and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco public park. In addition, Leong has published several monographs of his art, more than 50 essays on formalist study and art education, and currently publishing a book of theoretical research - New Aesthetic Perspective: The Visual Forces of Ω Curve.
Leong’s art and achievements have been documented in hundreds of reviews, publications and citations in newspapers, magazines, art books, websites, and on television internationally, including the front cover of New Art International in New York and the Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London. Leong is a recipient of the Faculty-Alumni Award by the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007 and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown proclaimed November 19, 1999 to be Lampo Leong Day.
