©Hanart TZ Gallery

Event Description:

As we begin the summer season, CUAAHK invites alumni and guests to an exclusive guided tour of Chinese ink artist Bingyi’s recent works at a private residence in Happy Valley, hosted by Hong Kong’s Hanart TZ Gallery, where established and emerging international and Chinese artists have been prominently exhibited for over 40 years. The displayed artworks are Bingyi’s expression of the lifestyle of the literati gathering into the project experience through three distinct levels; First level: Cool Breeze, Second Level: Suspended Garden, and the Third Level: Layered City.

Artist Bingyi’s Bio:

Artist Bingyi is Born in Beijing and educated in the United States, Bingyi received her Ph.D. in art history from Yale University in 2005 where she specialized in the literature and culture of the Han Dynasty. There, she developed her ability to compose texts in various classic formats whether in ancient shijing-style poetry, rhapsodic fu-style verse or ancient guwen-style prose.

Bingyi is perhaps best known for her large-scale ink paintings in which she collaborates, over months or years, with the environmental conditions of a specific site to capture a reality-scaled record of the climatic and topological forces shaping a natural or urban landscape. At the other end of her wide-ranging practice, Bingyi explores the microscopic origins of organic life in intimate, small-format paintings, in which her minute and meticulous brushwork paradoxically reveals a profoundly creative, gestural, and “calligraphically expressive” quality drawn from her daily calligraphy routine. Through her hypnotic, obsessive endurance and execution both painstaking and nuanced, one senses the loving power of nature itself as it crafts animate life from inanimate matter.

In 2026, Bingyi's works are displayed at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center and Harvard Art Museums, and will be shown at the National Museum of Asia in April 2026.

Event Details:

Date: Saturday June 13th, 2026 from 3 to 4 pm.

Location: Hanart Forum, A Private Residence in Happy Valley

Meeting Point: Intersection of Village Road and Fung Fai Terrace, Happy Valley, Hong Kong

Capacity: 15 persons

Price:

• $50 for members;
• $60 for non-members/invited guests;

RSVP:

Please register by contacting Yvette Poon at +852 91726587 directly.

Terms & Conditions:

• As the Hanart Forum is located in a private residence, participants are advised to respect the privacy of other residents and staff of the building by keeping conversations to a minimum when occupying common areas.
• Member pricing is available for current CUAAHK members only. Membership status will be verified by event organizer.
• Members and non-member alumni may come with minors but must pay the non-member ticket price for guest.
• Non-alumni guests are permitted by invitation only; subject to approval by co-organizers Yvette Poon and Henry Woo.
• Light refreshments will be provided by Hanart Gallery.
• No refunds once payment is completed.
• No refunds for no show.
• All proceeds go towards future CUAAHK programming.