Lo Kai-yin, SBS
Polymath Kai-Yin Lo is a designer of jewellery, ceramics and objets d’art, cultural historian and editor of five books, and a curator and organiser of events. Melding the cultural heritages of East and West, and interpreting them in contemporary forms, she presents art, design and culture in a historical context with events ranging from the landmark exhibition of artist Wu Guanzhong at the British Museum in 1992 to the Hong Kong official design exhibition at Shanghai Expo in 2010 and her own first art and design exhibition at the Asia Society in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2013. Lo studied European history at Cambridge and Harvard and started out in public relations at the Mandarin Hotel before moving to New York where she sold her first jewellery to Cartier on Fifth Avenue. She is a visiting professor at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and a lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and in 2007 was named the World’s Leading Chinese Designer by the Hong Kong Design Centre.
