Notable books, articles & exhibition catalogs Covering Bai Ji Kong and His Work

"Intense in his search for a new synthesis, [Kong Bai Ji] says that he seeks 'to combine ancient tradition with contemporary feeling.' Kong values honesty and expression of feeling in creation, and he has been open-minded and experimental in his work..."

-Joan Lebold Cohen, a well-known authority on Chinese contemporary painting who is credited with bringing a generation of Chinese artists to the attention of a wide public in the United States

The New Chinese Painting - 1949-1986, Harry N. Abrams, NY, USA, 1987

"Kong Baiji uses painted paper to enhance surface effects; his paintings often suggest the weathered fresco of a Buddhist monastery."

-American scholar Philip Gould, a widely recognized expert on, and collector of, contemporary Chinese paintings

From his introduction to the guide for the 1987 exhibition "Artists From China - New Expressions" at the Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery