A native of Hong Kong, artist Chung (Fanky) Chak makes digital photo collages on a massive scale. The square 40" X 40" prints from his series, "The Boxes," focus on different urban environments, Hong Kong, New York, Tokyo, and Montreal among them, examining visual stereotypes and expectations. By taking thousands of photographs of windows taken around the world and creating a new environment, Chak's intention is to illustrate common stereotypes we have about a community, and let the audience decide whether it is true or not. Each window, now part of a larger collage, loses its geographical reference and becomes only a small part of the whole.

Chung (Fanky) Chak was born in Hong Kong. Since 1989, he has lived in the U.S. in more than ten different places including both big cities and small towns.

Chak earned an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the College of New Jersey. Chak's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. including at Image Gallery, Las Vegas, NV; Murray Gallery, Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, IL; Joseph Gazzuolo Fine Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN; Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY; and the Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO. Internationally, Chak's work has been exhibited at the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, Dimbola Lodge Museum, UK; and the E&J Gallo Gallery, Hong Kong. Chak received a Publication Award through the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and was an artist-in-residence at the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.