Kong Kai Ming is a well-known local artist who was born in 1932 in Hong Kong. He has spent has whole life in painting and in 1995, he was made an honorary research fellow by the David C Lam Institute for East-West Studies. In the same year, he was appointed a consultant of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In 2006, Kong was conferred the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in recognition of his five decades of contribution to art. The Award for Arts Achievement 2007 presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council marks Kong’s success.

Mr. Kong is best known for his sketches of Hong Kong street scenes. In more than 1,000 works, he recorded the historical transformation and rapid development of Hong Kong with a 5B pencil. Many albums of Kong’s art works are in the collections of institutions such as the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Baptist University. One of these albums, Paintings of Hong Kong Historic Landmarks, earned the commendation of the former Governor Hong Kong David Wilson and the former British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, and is now kept in the libraries of both Government House and 10 Downing Street. Another album, Landmarks of Hong Kong, was recognized by Mr. Yim Shui Yuen, Museum Advisor of Capital Museum in Beijing and Former Chief Curator of Hong Kong Heritage Museum, as “a group of poems that sing praises to the realistic life of Hong Kong.”