Douglas Bland /
Reflections /
Mar 10 – Jul 16, 2025 /
Ping Pong Gintonería
129 Second Street
L/G Nam Cheong House
Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
+852 9035 6197
Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm – 10pm
Ping Pong Gintonería is delighted to present Reflections, a retrospective of the late artist Douglas Bland (1923-75). This marks the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in Hong Kong since 1979, offering a rare opportunity to rediscover one of the most innovative yet overlooked figures in Hong Kong’s 20th-century art history.
Bland, a British-born artist who made Hong Kong his home in 1947, was a pioneer in the fusion of Chinese and western art traditions. This exhibition features a collection of his paintings, including works from his important Reflections series, showcasing his relentless pursuit of Asian modernism. It will also highlight rarely seen archival material, including photos of his lost large-scale murals for the Hong Kong Hilton in the early 1960s.
Bland’s work, once celebrated by critics and collectors alike, has largely faded from public view since his untimely death in 1975. However, his legacy as “the most accomplished western painter to work in the Orient since George Chinnery” (Nigel Cameron, South China Morning Post) deserves renewed attention.
