Pisen Hong 洪丕森

Artist Statement

The learned Westernness and inherited Chineseness are two embraced sides of my life like a symbol of Taichi in which the two are not separate entities but are densely inter-dependent, inter-woven and inter-changeable. Having experienced cross-cultural shock, pain and hope, my works are the reflections and records of the searching of a cross-cultural artistic identity; the introspecting of an inter-cultural insight, investigation and contemplation; the fusion of Chinese and Australian painting, aesthetic and philosophical thinking; and the pursuing of a difficult pleasure – to rediscover/ find myself, the meaning of visual art, and to build a bridge through which Chinese and Australian painting may influence and benefit each other.

3. EXHIBITION, RESEARCH, PUBLICATION AND AWARDS

a. Solo Exhibitions

— Protea Art Center Melbourne; June 2019

— Eureka Centre Melbourne; Dec. 2019 – Jan. 2019

— Melbourne International Fine Arts Gallery (Collins St.); August 2011

— Banks Art Gallery, Lands field, Australia; Feb – Mar 2008

— Singchuang City Culture and Arts Center, Taiwan; Apr – May 2007

— Suzhou City Art Gallery, Suzhou, China; January 2005

— East and West Art Gallery, Kew, Australia; Mar – Apr 2003

— Wang Yachen Art Gallery, Shanghai, China; January 2003

— The Golen Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Australia; July 2001

— The Golden Dragon Museum. Bendigo, Australia; Mar – Apr 1999

— Phillis Palmer Gallery. La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia; August, 1998

— Ulrich Stalph Studio. Melbourne. October, 1989

— Suzhou Museum Mural, Suzhou; 1984

 b. Duet Exhibition

— Xue Qiying & Hong Pisen Oil Painting Exhibition, Jingcheng art Centre, Suzhou, China; October 2018

— Pisen Hong & Jie Shen Art show — the Utzon Room, Opera House, Sydney; March 2017

— Iranian & Chinese Interfaith Art Exhibition, Geelong, Australia; June 2010

— Pimo & Pisen HONG Brother Show, Huang Binghong Art Gallery, Jinhua, China; Dec 2003 –Jan 2004

— Pimo & Pisen HONG Brother Show. Q&W Gallery. New York, USA.

  Dec 1999 – Jan 2000

— Pisen Hong & Christine Chung Exhibition, Art Sans Frontiers International Art Exhibitions,  Melbourne; September,1999

 c. Group Exhibition

   Works exhibited and published in Australia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Philippine, Malaysia, French, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, USA, Mexico, Brazil, etc. over a hundred times. Include:

   The 8 Masters Exhibition at Australia-China Economic Trade & Investment Expo (ACETIE)2019;

   The 14^th Australia-China Trade Expo (ACTE) 2019;

   Masters Invitation Exhibition, Melbourne; 2017

   The First Australian Art Exhibition; Melbourne, Sydney, 2016; Tour exhibition in China; 2017

   Victorian Artists Society Exhibitions; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003;

   2002; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998; 1997; 1996; 1995; 1994;

   La Trobe University Post-graduate Art Exhibition; 1999;

   Australian Chinese Artists Association Exhibition，National Gallery of Victoria（NGV）, Melbourne；1999

   1998 Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS) Conference & Exhibition; 1998

   The 9th Mornington Spring Festival of Drawing (Biennial)，Mornington, Australia; Nov 1989 – Jan 1990

   Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition (Li Shutong Birth 130 anniversary), Pinghushi, China; 2010

   The Third National Landscape Exhibition, Beijing; 2003 

   Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Painting Asia Tour Exhibition 1984 – 1998

   Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Painting Europe Tour Exhibition 1984 – 1998

d. Collected by public galleries and privates

such as Q & W Art Gallery, New York, USA;   

 Qianyexian Municipal Museum，Japan；

Golden Museum, Bendigo, Australia; CBRE Melbourne;  

 Pacific Group, Australia; Kensington Wine, Australia;

 Yanhuang Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Shanghai Municipal International Cultural Exchange

 Commission; Huang Binhong Art Gallery, Jinhua, China; Taohuawu Art Centre, Suzhou, China; etc.

 f. Awards/Prizes in paintings and Calligraphy more than 11 times:

 Gold Award – International Contest & Masterwork Exhibition of Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, Shanghai; 2019

 Gold Award – Shanghai International Masters Exhibition of Painting, Calligraphy & Phytography; 2016;

Gold Award – Shanghai International Masters Exhibition of Painting, Calligraphy & Phytography; 2014;

 Gold Award – The 6 th International Calligraphy Exhibition (Japan, Korea, Brazil, China); 2006

 Silver Award – China – Korea painting & Calligraphy Exhibition; 2002

 Gold Award – The Fifth China, Japan, Korea International Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition; 2001

 Award – Millennium International Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition of Dragon culture; Guilin, China; 2000

 Excellence Award – Beijing – Suzhou Teachers Art Exhibition; Beijing, Suzhou; 1986

 Excellence Award – Suzhou Art Teachers Exhibition; Suzhou; 1985

 Excellence Award – Suzhou Art Teachers Exhibition; 1984

 Excellent Art Work Award – Anhui Provincial Excellent Creative Art Work Award (New Year painting); 1979

4. RESEARCH

  Research on Chinese/ Western art, literature and culture, articles published on Chinese newspapers and magazine.

5. PUBLICATIONS

— Pisen Hong 2009 Bridging Chinese & Australian Painting Lambert Academic Publishing Koln Germany

— Pisen Hong 2003 Selection of Pisen Hong’s Paintings – Australia-Impression & Expression (洪丕森绘画选 – 澳大利亚风情系列); Hong Kong Time Publishing Co. Hong Kong

— Pisen Hong 1994 East Meets West: An Active Cross-cultural Art Learning Model; INTERACTA (Journal of the art craft teachers Association [A.C.T.A] Victoria Australia Vol. 1 Melbourne

 6. REVIEWS

— THE AGE 16 Jan 1990 John McLagan An artist’s perspective aids design

— SBS TV Broadcast 18 Jan 1990 East meets West – Chinese artist Pisen Hong— Annmaree Bellman 2002 An artist of the first rank – Pisen Hong in POSTSCRIPT (The Calligraphy Society of Victoria Inc.) February – March 2002.

— Karen Ward 2001 Exquisite tale – Perspectives on Pisen Hong Weekender July 21. Bendigo.

—Peter Hodge 2001 Hong’s difficult pleasure The Paper July 27 – August 9, 2001. P3.