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KWAN Sheung Chi was born in 1980, Hong Kong. In 1999 he entered the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2000 he was named the “King of Hong Kong New Artist”.

In 2002 "Kwan Sheung Chi Touring Series Exhibitions, Hong Kong" was exhibited and toured in 10 major exhibition venues in Hong Kong.

Within the same year, the Hong Kong Art Centre presented "A Retrospective of Kwan Sheung Chi". In 2003 he graduated with third honor bachelor degree from the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the same year, he set up a studio in Fotan, and organized the “Fotanian: Open Studio 2007”.

From 2004 he became a nine-to-fiver in Central. In 2005 he helped his mother, Tsang Yin-hung, to create her first artwork, "Teapoy". The piece was included in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005, as a selected entry.

His artworks haven’t been widely exhibited around the world. On 1st January 2008, he determined not to sell any of his artworks for 3 years. In February 2009, he co-founded the web-based arts TV channel, Hong Kong Arts Discovery Channel (HKADC).

He is also a founding member of local art groups, hkPARTg (Political Art Group) and Woofer Ten, which both focus on experimental practicing of art in relation to local politics, social issues and communities.

He has been awarded the Starr Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to take part in an international residency program in New York, USA.