Yeung Tong Lung

Yeung Tong Lung was born in 1956 in Fujian, China and moved to Hong Kong in 1973. During the Cultural Revolution he painted declamatory political posters exhorting the public to follow the party line. After immigrating, he worked in a number of commercial art-related jobs including painting tin soldiers, painting backdrops and scenery for film productions and photo shoots, and painting murals. Although he has no formal art training, he began exhibiting in 1984 and held his first solo exhibition in 1986. Since then, he has held multiple joint exhibitions. Yeung began his career as an abstract expressionist but turned to figural painting after the birth of his daughter because he wanted to be able to share his art with her right from the start. He is now known to produce powerful, realistic representations of ordinary people in their daily lives. His paintings have a palpable immediacy as they are based on his own direct experience and incisive observation and deal with the space that human beings occupy both physically and mentally. Yeung captures not only the banality of everyday life but also its quirky, almost surreal moments. Yeung’s paintings have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Beijing, Japan, U.S.A., Switzerland and The Hong Kong Art Museum, The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Geneva, DSL Collection and M+ Museum and some private collectors are among those who have collected his works.

“Painting as a relatively simple and monotonous medium has however reactivated my sense of “seeing”. I try to discover from a messy, crowded and dull environment, then re-present what I find and the imagination that is aroused.”
Yang Tong Lung