Ung Vai Meng was born in Macau where he studied drawing and watercolours with master Kam Cheong Leng.
In 1986 he received a grant from the Cultural Institute of Macau to study painting and engraving at the Oporto
College of Fine Arts. In 1991, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Orient Foundation
and the Cultural Institute of Macau, he studied at AR.CO in Lisbon, completing the Painting Course in 1992.
In 1995 he won the first prize for installation art at the 2nd Macau Biennial Art Exhibition and from then until 1997
he won a total of forty prizes in local and foreign graphic art competitions including Distinction, Gold and Silver
Prizes in the Publishing section and the Gold and Bronze Prizes in the Poster section of the 1st Macau Design
Biennial Exhibition, the Asian Jury’s Prize at the HKDA Design 96 show, and Distinction, Gold Prize in the Poster
section of the 2nd Macau Design Biennial Exhibition. He is a member of the Macau Fine Arts Association and a
founding member of the Macau Friends of Culture Association. Ung Vai Meng is also the Director of the Macau
Museum of Art.
Solo exhibitions:
1984 “Drawings of Lisbon”, Macau Leal Senado (Urban Council)
1985 “Drawings by Ung Vai Meng”, Macau Leal Senado (Urban Council)
1990 “Paintings by Ung Vai Meng”, Portuguese Bookshop, Macau
1992 “Landscapes of the Body”, Macau Mission in Lisbon
1993 “Works by Ung Vai Meng”, Zen Gallery, Oporto
“Entitled”, Casa Gar-den, Macau
1994 “Atelier” Kuarto Gallery, Macau
1995 “Works by Ung Vai Meng”, Gallery of the Macau Government Tourist Office
and Macau Mission, Lisbon
1996 “Beyond Transparency”, Gallery of the Macau Government Tourist Office.