Frog King Kwok
Frog King Kwok
Kwok Mang Ho, also known as Frog King, is a first-generation performance artist in Hong Kong. His work encompasses performance art, happening, installation, collage, ink art, sculpture and more. He incorporates ink painting as both action and material into multimedia participatory practices.
Kwok received training in ink painting and calligraphy from Lui Shou Kwan, a master of the New Ink Painting movement, and spent 15 years in New York during his early artistic career. He has exhibited and performed in over 4,000 exhibitions and events worldwide and represented Hong Kong at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. He was also awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Emeritus Fellowship in 1998 and the Yomoma Arts Group Award for Best Community Arts Services by City Hall New York in 1987. His works are collected by international institutions and documented in the Kwok Mangho Frog King Archive of Asia Art Archive.
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