BIO

Kire was juried into the North Park Gallery exhibition in Victoria upon graduation. Then the relocation diverted him into an art education career for 20 years in Hong Kong. During that time, he experimented with calligraphy, both Chinese and Western, and the various disciplines of designs, installation art among many other art forms.

He ended his teaching days and moved back to Canada for good in 2010. It was a time of change and so his Art followed. A few transformations during that time affirmed his mastery in line manipulation.

In 2014, his art steadily sunk into the psychology aspect of art. Using Automatic Drawing as a foundation discipline, his presentations swayed back and forth from abstractions to expressionism.

In 2018, he began to decipher figures from the haystack of swift automatic lines. The message from the psyche is a genuine outpour because no alterations were made in the creative process.

Kire is now residing in Edmonton. He received the 150 in 150 award in the visual arts category in 2017 and an Art Grant from the CCA in 2022. His works have been sold to private collectors in the U.S., Canada, England and Hong Kong over the years.

Art Vancouver 2023 was his last endeavor.