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Melbourne, East and West Art Gallery, Cloud is Mountian, March 2006, No. 4.

Melbourne, East and West Art Gallery, Cloud is Mountian, March 2006.

Ji Wye To (born 1956 in Hong Kong) has showcased his work across regions including Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Canada, and Australia. His artworks are part of several prominent collections, such as the Shanghai Art Museum, the French Cultural Association in Hong Kong, the Macau Municipal Council, the University of Sydney, the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia, and the Chinese Cultural Centre of Vancouver. In 1988, he launched Furnace Newsletter, a publication that fostered critical discourse in Hong Kong's art scene. The following year, he initiated Art Action, a collective effort that brought together artists from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora in North America to promote contemporary Chinese art on a broader scale.

Between 1986 and 1989, Ji studied art and philosophy at Hong Kong Buddhist College (Buddhist Luen Yan Institute), shaping a distinctive philosophical and cultural viewpoint. His practice is heavily informed by Chan (Zen) Buddhism, phenomenology, and the idea of emptiness. These influences guide his approach to creating art that emphasizes the power of absence, expresses vastness within constraints, and leads viewers through a transformation from tangible forms to abstraction-offering an introspective and spiritually enriching visual experience.