Donna Chu Kit Yee

Biography

Donna Chu Kit Yee was born in Hong Kong in 1967, the third of four siblings. She attended Sir James Gray Government Primary School and Belilios Public School. After graduation, she competed in the 1989 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and won the runner-up title, then joined TVB for two years before leaving to pursue a freelance film career. She began stepping away from the entertainment industry in 2000 to focus on her art and charitable activities. She studied Lingnan School ink painting and oil painting at City University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education, as well as meticulous flower-and-bird painting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's same school, and apprenticed under several ink painters including Wong Wo Yee. She is known for painting traditional flowers in Western oil colours. Her works have been exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, were selected for the Global Ink Painting Exhibition in 2017 and 2018, and are held in collections at the Ningbo Art Museum, Prince Gong's Mansion in Beijing, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Singapore, and the Korean Cultural Research Art Museum. In 2017 she returned to host the programme "Business Opportunities" on Fantastic TV, and in 2018 she appeared on TVB's "Classic 50" to showcase her singing. In 2021 her paintings were selected among the top 500 of the Global Ink Painting Exhibition 2021. She is a member of the Hong Kong Artists Association.