Ink Rhapsody: The Art of the Lingnan Masters in Hong Kong

Opening summer 2025, this collaboration between the KIA and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco consists of Chinese paintings in two sections. The first section explores the art of Yang Shanshen and his teacher Gao Jianfu to showcase the traditions and innovations of the Lingnan school, a renowned regional artist group that had a profound impact in the history of modern China. The second section shows the subjects and styles of other Lingnan artists in Canton in a broad perspective and highlights the artistic development in Hong Kong as a major base for the development of Chinese national painting in the twentieth century when various trends and thoughts interacted in this metropolitan city. The aim of this exhibition is to promote the understanding of the history and characteristics of southern traditions of Chinese ink art through a refined selection of paintings from the Joy and Timothy Light Collection.