in mr. jerry kwan's early life, he used oil painting to be his major medium expression to himself. in the 1970s, he left for the united states for further studies in fine arts and graduate in the columbus college of art and design, ohio, and the syracuse university, new york. he stayed in us around twenty years. and he joined in lots of exhibition that was awarded the national endowment for the arts fellowship in 1995. in 1997, he came back to hong kong. besides of his working on painting, he also became a mentor in polytechnic university, the art school of hong kong arts centre and the chinese university of hong kong.