John Slosar 史樂山

John Slosar grew up in Ohio, USA, and currently resides in Hong Kong. He holds economics degrees from Columbia University in the United States and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom; he joined the Swire Group in 1980 and successively served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swire Pacific, Swire Properties, Cathay Pacific Airways and HAECO. Slosar works exclusively with self-written digital graphics software. This allows him to create, reshape and colour complex shapes with exactitude.

 

For most of his 46 years in Hong Kong, he absorbed the city's unmatched energy, creativity and dynamism—an immersive sensory experience that would later shape his art. Slosar's work taps into the "visual pattern matrix"—the innate human capacity, developed from infancy, to recognise shapes and colours before understanding narratives. Slosar believes that shape and colour alone can trigger immediate emotional responses. His goal is to arrange geometric forms and palettes to produce positive feelings, bypassing conscious explanation.

 

Influenced by Victor Vasarely, Henri Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein and ancient Egyptian wall paintings, Slosar found his breakthrough on a long flight: contemplating Vasarely's Orion-Or (1962–64)—420 hand-painted squares—he realised a digital approach could achieve far more with precision. This led directly to his series "Imaginary Flowers", which will be exhibited for the first time at 3812 Gallery London, marking John Slosar's first solo exhibition in his artistic career.