Bong keum, Cindy Rhee 李 鳯 金
b. 1 9 5 3 (Korea)
Renowned artist Cindy Rhee grew up in Korea, where she learned from respected painter Hoon Kwak while getting her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Western Painting at the Hong Ik Fine Arts University. From the early days of her career she was confident in her unique abilities and style, and recalls how she resisted the efforts of her other professors who were trying in vain to confine her work within the minimalist monochrome painting styles which were so prevalent in the Korean art work at that time.
Now, an experienced artist with decades of experience, Rhee has gone on to sell her works all across the globe, and is best known for her large figurative paintings on canvas, in both oil and acrylic. Her paintings tend to broadly follow a style of realism, concentrating on the human face and figure. “I love to paint people—I call myself a figurative artist,” Rhee says. “Specifically I love to paint faces because the face can tell you so many different emotions and it’s in the face you can see how each individual has lived their lives.”
Born 1953, graduated from Hong IK Fine Art Univ. South Korea with a bachelor of fine arts degree
1978 Moved to Hong Kong
1996 Established Cindy's Art Studio in Sheung Wan
1997 Exhibition 'Figure in composition' at Fringe club
1997 Art Center group show at Hong Kong art Center
1998 Artist Abroad exhibition, 'For Art's sake' at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
1999 Chinese oil painting association group exhibition at City Hall
2000 Group show at Exchange Square
2013 Solo show at Cindy's art studio at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
2014 Asia Contemporary Art show at Conrad hotel
2015 Solo show 'Souless portraits' at Cindy's Art Studio
2017 Solo show 'Continuum at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
2019 Miami Aqua Art fair in the USA
2019 Solo show, 'Continuum 2' at The Hive Spring (Wong Chuk Hang)
2019 Guest artist, 'Reflection' at Exchange Square
2020 'Perception' at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

Babies are completely innocent, pure balls of soft skin with life in them, their wonderful expressions are dependent and putity just like a blank canvas. Cindy wanted to capture these putity and innocence with her new collection “New Beginnings”
![]() JoyOil on Canvas 55 x 50cm (2021) | ![]() AmyAcrylic on Canvas 50 x 50cm (2021) | ![]() Emily's BoyAcrylic on Canvas 50 x 50cm (2021) | ![]() Sun HatAcrylic on Canvas 50 x 50cm (2021) |
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![]() LucasOil on Canvas 55 x 50cm (2021) | ![]() Red StarAcrylic on Canvas 50 x 50cm (2021) | ![]() MoonAcrylic on Canvas 50 x 50cm (2021) |