Kassia Ko graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic’s Department of Industrial Design. She was elected as a MSIAD in 1982, Member of
Society of Industrial Artists & Designers, Incorporated by Royal Charter. In 2008 she completed a diploma course of Chinese Painting at The University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education. She completed the Master of Fine Arts program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, conferred in conjunction with the Hong Kong Art School in 2013. Since then, she has been invited by the RMIT University annually to run an artist talk to MFA and BA students on her graduation project 'Ma Wan Landscape: from Distance and Up Close’ for ten years. The thesis has been collected by the library of the University of Hong Kong and Asia Art Archive.
Currently, Ko is the secretary of the Chinese Ink Painting Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Development Council Examiner, member of China Artists Association and China Female Artists’ Painting Association, Committee member of Hong Kong Artists’ Association and is invited as the member of the assessor board of Ink Global 2020. After curated her first solo ink exhibition ‘Imprint’ at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 2014, she curated ‘The Art of Kassia Ko’ in Ink Asia 2017, ‘Before & After’ in Hong Kong 3812 Gallery 2022. Art work ‘Red Series #6’ has been selected in the 14th China National Fine Art Exhibition 2024. Her work also has been featured at many art events in Hong Kong (Art Basal, Ink Asia, Fine Art Asia, Art Central), Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, London, Melbourne, Singapore and St. Petersburg, and has been collected by Dunhuang Academy, various international organizations, hotels and private collectors.
高杏娟 於 80 年代在香港理工學院工業設計畢業，專業設計七年後獲得註册英國皇家設計美術專業資格MSIAD，2008 年完成香港大學專業進修學院的中國繪畫文憑，2013 年獲澳洲墨爾本皇家學院和香港藝術學院聯辦的藝術碩士學位。自 2013 年之後 10 年被邀請為學士生及碩士生主講畢業論文《馬灣: 既遠且近》，論文由香港大學圖書館和亞洲藝術文獻庫收藏。
高氏曾任全球水墨大展 2020 評審委員，現為中國畫學會香港秘書長，香港藝術發展局評審員，中國美術家協會會員，中國女畫家協會會員，香港美協理事，藝育菁英理事和水墨工作坊義務導師。個展有「馬灣：既遠且近」2013、「流. 影」(香港文化中心 2014) 、「高杏娟的藝術」(水墨藝博 2017)、「彼時如光．此後若影」(香港 3812 畫廊 2022)。作品紅色系列.6入選第十四屆中國美展2024，多次參加香港巴塞爾藝術展、水墨藝博、 典亞藝博、 Art Central; 及深圳、廣州、上海、倫敦、墨爾本、星加坡、聖彼得堡等地舉行的聯展。作品被敦煌研究院、海內外多家藝術機構、國際酒店及私人收藏。