Johnson Su-Sing Chow

Professor Johnson Su-Sing Chow was born into a family of scholars and artists in Suzhou, China, where he studied poetry and calligraphy under the tutelage of his father and uncle from an early age.

He graduated from the Suzhou Fine Arts College and studied painting from several renowned artists of the Wu School. He moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong between 1962 and 1971. Professor Chow lived in California between 1971 and 1981. During this time, he served as curator of Chinese art at the Asian Pacific Art Museum and taught Chinese painting at the University of California, Los Angeles.


He has made his home in Vancouver since 1981. He taught at the University of British Columbia and is the founding President of the Chinese Canadian Artists Federation in Vancouver. He has received over 150 major art awards and honors over the years. A selection of his calligraphy has been carved on a stone tablet and included in the Contemporary Scholars Forest of Steles in Henan Province, China.
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