Lampo Leong

Lampo Leong, PhD from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and MFA from California College of the Arts, is a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of the Centre for Digital Arts in the Dept of Arts and Design at the University of Macau, a Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA and a Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong has served as judge or curator for over 80 art and design competitions and exhibitions and delivered over 300 lectures at esteemed institutions such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley and China Academy of Art. Leong’s work has been featured in Christie’s and worldwide in more than 70 solo exhibits and over 470 juried or curated group exhibitions at international and national levels. He has received over 130 awards, including Red Dot Award: Best of the Best in Germany, Gold Medal at American Good Design, and Silver Award in MUSE Design Awards. Leong’s works are housed in more than ten museum collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. His public art and design commissions include paintings for Columbia City Hall and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco city park. Leong’s achievements have been documented in over 1100 reviews and publications in magazines, art books, and on TV internationally, including the front cover of New Art International in New York, Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London, and Art Frontier in the USA.