Artists
Ko Kassia
Secretary
Kassia Ko graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic’s Department of Industrial Design. She was elected as a MSIAD in 1982, Member of Society of Industrial Artists & Designers, Incorporated by Royal Charter. In 2008 she completed a diploma course of Chinese Painting at The University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education. She completed the Master of Fine Arts program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, conferred in conjunction with the Hong Kong Art School in 2013. Since then, she has been invited by the RMIT University annually to run an artist talk to MFA and BA students on her graduation project 'Ma Wan Landscape: from Distance and Up Close’ for ten years. The thesis has been collected by the library of the University of Hong Kong and Asia Art Archive.
Currently, Ko is the secretary of the Chinese Ink Painting Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Development Council Examiner, member of China Artists Association and China Female Artists’ Painting Association, Committee member of Hong Kong Artists’ Association and is invited as the member of the assessor board of Ink Global 2020. After curated her first solo ink exhibition ‘Imprint’ at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 2014, ‘The Art of Kassia Ko’ in Ink Asia 2017, ‘Before & After’ in Hong Kong 3812 Gallery 2022. Her work also has been featured at many art events in Hong Kong (Art Basal, Ink Asia, Fine Art Asia, Art Central), Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, London, Melbourne, Singapore and St. Petersburg and has been collected by various international organizations, hotels and private collectors.