Visual Arts

Born in 1959 in a coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s foremost artists working in the medium of watercolour. Richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and watercolourist extraordinaire. Over the last two decades he has developed an impressive body of work depicting the stories of the rural people, culture and landscape of countless places in Asia and beyond in his signature realist style.

Presenting a range of Chang Fee Ming’s older and more recent works, this Christie’s Private Sales exhibition demonstrates the artist’s ability to present the seemingly familiar yet foreign cultures around us in a new light, reinforcing the importance of cultural understanding. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

The exhibition brings together more than 70 individual artworks, including over a dozen recent large-format watercolour paintings; a broad selection of iconic older works; and rare drawings, sketches and mail art from the artist’s personal collection that spans his extensive travels.