PROFILE

Kwan graduated from New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a B.A. degree in painting in 1961. He married Yee Wah Yip, also an artist in 1962. They moved to San Diego, CA in 1963 and made San Diego their hometown since. Kwan did post-graduate studies at San Diego State University in 1968-1969. Kwan, an Academician of the National Academy of Design, also became a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in 1970; member of the American Watercolor Society, NY in 1976; and a member of the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild.

His paintings are Landscape, Portraiture, and Chinese Brush paintings. His art is in the collections of: Sun-Telegram Newspaper, CA; Windsor and Newton, CA; San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, CA; Utah State University, Utah; National Academy Museum, NY; Springville Museum of Art, Utah; PharMingen, San Diego, CA; IBM Corporation, Austin, TX; General Atomics, San Diego, CA; and Hickory Museum of Fine Art, NC.

Kan’s artwork has been featured in books and magazines of: “Landscape” by Gerald Brommer; “Special Focus on California” by John Miller; “Environmental Escape” by Jan Jennings; American Artists and Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary American” by Krantz; Watercolor 1986” by John Manson; “Splash 1” by Greg Albert and Rachel Wolf; “The Art of Kwan Y. Jung and Yee Wah Jung” by Jan Jennings; “Splash 2” by Pachel; Wolf; “The Best of Watercolor 2 Painting Texture” by Betty Schlemn; and “Kwan Jung’s Topographical Watercolor” by Mark E. Lugo. Kwan is also the author of “Chinese Brush Painting, Step by Step”, published by F/W Publications Inc.

Kwan has been listed in Who’s Who in American Art since 1976.