Early life

Sun-chang Lo is a Chinese American photographer, artist, architect. Born in Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, China, and has lived and studied in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States.

Following graduation from the Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

, New York City, in 1972, he was a recipient of the Japanese Monbukagakusho Scholarship

Monbukagakusho Scholarship

is a prestigious scholarship offered by the Monbu-kagaku-shō.To date, some 65,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government Scholarship program established in 1954...

 from 1974 to 1976. While studying under Professor Kazuo Shinohara at the Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tokyo Institute of Technology

The Tokyo Institute of Technology is a public research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology. Tokyo Tech enrolled 4,850 undergaraduates and 5006 graduate students for 2009-2010...

, analysis and synthesis of the theories and histories of Chinese and Japanese architecture landed him two consecutive awards in the 1975 and 1976 Japan Architect International Residential Competitions.

Architecture, Design & Photography

From 1977 to 1979, while participating in the Lukang Landmark Preservation Project, he taught architecture and design at Tunghai University

Tunghai University

Tunghai University was founded by Methodist missionaries in 1955 as a comprehensive university. It is a top-ranked private school and a leading institution in Taiwan. Moreover, Tunghai University was founded as the first private university making it the second oldest university in Taiwan, which...

, Taiwan. Back in his New York City home base, he and his wife/partner, Jean, pursued a multi-discipline design practice ranging from architecture, interior, fashion and graphic design, to photography, surveying and model making.

From 1993 to 2008 he taught art and architecture, design, drawing and photography at the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

"Despite Sun-chang's stylistic consistency, the artistic content of his photography holds inexhaustible possibilities awaiting endless explorations. With each scrutiny, one is always able to discover previously undetected profundities... Vague semblance is the phenomenon of the impalpable and the incommensurable, and is an incarnation of 'Tao

Tao

Dao or Tao is a Chinese word meaning 'way', 'path', 'route', or sometimes more loosely, 'doctrine' or 'principle'...

.' Sun-chang's latest work is at the threshold of 'Tao

Tao

Dao or Tao is a Chinese word meaning 'way', 'path', 'route', or sometimes more loosely, 'doctrine' or 'principle'...

.'"

Pao-teh Han Director Museum of World Religions

Museum of World Religions

The Museum of World Religions is a museum in Yonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.The museum was founded by Venerable Hsin Tao , a Buddhist monk, and set up through the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation...

Currently

In 2008, Sun-chang Lo was referenced in The Hong Kong Art Archive.
He is presently a freelance architect/artist/photographer living in New York city

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

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Books

• Hong Kong: A Micro Vision/Photographs Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 124 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-03-6
• Hong Kong: A Macro Vision/Drawings Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 120 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-12-5
• Metropolis: A Prime Vision/Photographs Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 136 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-21-4
• Metropolis: An Omni Vision/Drawings Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 104 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-24-9
• Pilgrimage : A Naked Vision/Photographs Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 132 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-27-3
• 16 Lessons in Lines: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Illustrated. 250 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-08-7
• Mindscape: An Epic Vision/Photographs Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 132 pages. The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8038-44-3
• Sun-chang Lo’s Metropolis Sun-chang Lo Illustrated. 72 pages. Cultural & Recreational Services of the Civic & Municipal Affairs Bureau, Macau

Solo

• Mindscape: An Epic Vision/Photographs by Sun-chang Lo
• Creek Art, Shanghai, 2008.
• Sun-chang Lo's Metropolis
• The Taipa Houses Museum, Macau, 2004.
• Nudes and Naked Calligraphy/Works by Jean and Sun-chang Lo
• The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2003.
• Metropolis: A Prime Vision/Photographs by Sun-chang Lo
• Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 2001.
• Metropolis: A Prime Vision/Photographs by Sun-chang Lo
• Edward Carter Gallery, New York, 2001.
• Metropolis: Fotografias e Desenhos de Sun-chang Lo
• Galeria da Livraria Portuguesa, Instituto Português do Oriente, Macau, 2001.
• Photography by Sun-chang Lo
• Art Sites Gallery, Greenport, New York, 2000.
• Hong Kong: A Macro Vision/Drawings by Sun-chang Lo
• The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 1997.
• Hong Kong: A Micro Vision/Photographs by Sun-chang Lo
• Princeton University, 1996.
• Hong Kong: A Micro Vision/Photographs by Sun-chang Lo
• The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 1995.

Group

• Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
• Central, Hong Kong, 2008.
• Lianzhou International Photo Festival
• Lianzhou, Guangdong, China, 2007.
• Lishui International Photo Festival
• Lishui, Zhejiang, China, 2007.
• 16 Lessons in Lines
• The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 1999.
• Five Contemporary Chinese Photographers
• The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong, 1997

External links

• Artist's website