BIOGRAPHY
Details
CHAO Harn Kae was born in Malaysia. He graduated from Malaysia Institute of Art, Major in Fine Art - Oil Painting in 1997. He has resided and worked in Hong Kong since 2004.
He has been participating in an art exhibition in, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, China and Macau. Chao shows great enthusiasm in sculpturing clay as a major media. He also does bronze sculptures and painting. Some of his artworks are collected by the Hong Kong Art Museum, gallery, artists and individual collectors.
"His works reveal humanistic emotions. Through the delicate changes during his art creation, he releases his inmost feelings and emotions. He keeps his vision for his art creation to safeguard the essence and charm of his works while axing it clean; to hold it's naive and not to take away its vitality."
Awards
Collection of The Sixth Blennale of Ceramic Art In Western Cheng Du
CHENG DU, CHINA - 2019
Shi Wan Bei Young Competition Exhibition-Emerging Award
CHINA - 2019
Guangdong Youth Ceramic Art Skills Competition –Excellent Award
CHINA - 2017
Finalist, Art Next Expo, PMQ Central
HONG KONG- 2017
Selected, Competition by Hong Kong Museum of Tea Ware
HONG KONG - 2016
Finalist, New Art Wave Expo
MACAU - 2025
COLLECTION
Collected by Hong Kong Museum of Art
PUBLICATIONS &
APPEARANCES
Kuang, Chu. The Dark Book: Into the Mysterious Mind of the Artists (London: CYPY Press, 2017), 154-159.
Chao, Harnkae. CHAO's Ceramic Sculpture (Kuala Lumpur: Lostgens Contemporary Artspace, 2016).