Kong Chun-nga, Kitty

born 1994 Hong Kong

lives in Hong Kong

Born in Hong Kong, Kong Chun Nga, Kitty is an artist whose practice is informed by literature, poetry, and visual storytelling. Working primarily with acrylic and coloured pencil, she develops her paintings through an intuitive process of collage, combining her own photographs with found imagery to build layered visual narratives. At times, her paintings emerge directly from her own poetry, while literature, cinema, music, and art history continually shape her visual language, resulting in paintings that unfold with a dreamlike, surreal logic.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art in 2017 from RMIT University (in partnership with Hong Kong Art School). She completed a Master of Arts in Literary Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she received the Academic Excellence Award and was named to the Dean's List.

Alongside her painting practice, she also writes poetry, which has been published in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine. She has created commissioned works for Bleak House Books, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Her solo exhibitions include Bird Watching Snowflakes (Hong Kong, 2026). She has participated in group exhibitions including KunstRAI 2026 (Amsterdam, 2026), Spirit in Flux (Alisan Atelier, Hong Kong, 2025), and @N1MALX: Non-Human Life (Bonhams, Hong Kong, 2025), among others. Her works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, and the Netherlands. In 2017, she participated in artist residency programmes in Spain and Finland. Her works are held in the collections of Bleak House Books and private collectors.

BIOGRAPHY

1994 Born in Hong Kong
2017 BAFA, RMIT University (co-presented with Hong Kong Art School)
2020 MA in English (Literary Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2021 Curatorial, “It's a Landscape Painting, I said”, Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

2023 Guest Seminar, “A Painter in a Landscape”, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

2024 Guest Seminar, “Read, Write, See”, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

2025 Guest Seminar, “Brush and Pen: The Dual Voice of the Artist”, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

Present Lives and works in Hong Kong

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

We Have Arrived, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong

2016

Parallel Space, a collaborative project The Art Journey, by HKAS and Youth Square, Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

KunstRAI 2026, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2025-2026

Spirit in Flux, Alisan Atelier, Hong Kong

2025

Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong
@N1MALX: Non-Human Life, Bonhams, Hong Kong
Still a-Life, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
This is not Klara and the Orange Cat, Youth Square, Hong Kong

2024

Klara and the Orange Cat, The Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

2023

The Collectible Art Fair, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Her Stories Unveiled: Art Charity Exhibition, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
In Wonderland, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong

2022

Carnival of Animals - Xi Xi's Animal Poems, Yrellag Gallery, Hong Kong
A Collection in Two Acts, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong

2021

+1, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
It's a Landscape Painting, I said, Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong

2020

Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel, Hong Kong
A Place in Time, Fringe Club, Hong Kong

2019

By the Window, 1a space, Hong Kong
Book Arts of Kyoto, Artbooks Yamazaki, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Processing: on reading art, The Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
A Tribute to Yasi: Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2017

Collective Exhibition, Espai B Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Reverie, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Exhibition 2017, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Micro-implantation, Nagist Group, Kong Art Space, Hong Kong

2016

The No-body Discourse, Nagist Group, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
Asia Contemporary Art Show (Spring Edition), Hong Kong

SELECTED ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2017 Hannacc, Barcelona, Spain

Vanha Paukku Artist Residency, Lapua, Finland

SELECTED AWARDS

2020 MA in English (Literary Studies) Academic Excellence Award, CUHK, Hong Kong

MA in English (Literary Studies) Dean’s List, CUHK, Hong Kong

2018 First Prize, Peanuts Cover Art contest, Bleak House Books, Hong Kong

2017 Reaching Out Award, Education Bureau, HKSAR, Hong Kong

2015 Rome Art Program Scholarship, Rome, Italy

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Bleak House Books, Hong Kong