Ma Kwai Shun graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1976, a M.Phil. in Fine Arts in 1991 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a D.F.A. (Doctor of Fine Arts) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2002. He was Senior Lecturer in the Grantham College of Education / Hong Kong Institution of Education until 2008 and currently is Museum Honorary Adviser of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Assessor and Critic of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

He took part in many solo and group exhibitions including “Dialogue between Water-based Coloured Printmaking and Ink Painting”, “Contemplation of Landscape: Paintings by Ma Kwai Shun”, “Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Ma Kwai Shun”, “Landscape of Eternity: Paintings by Ma Kwai Shun”, “Landscape Improvisation: Paintings and Mono Prints by Ma Kwai Shun”, “water-based Print-Ink Painting-Artworks by Ma Kwai Shun”, “Second Taipei International Modern Ink Painting”, “Hong Kong Water, Ink, Colour-- Exhibition of Chinese Paintings 2009”and “Water & Ink Interpretation: Taipei Invitation Exhibition of Hong Kong Modern Ink Painting” etc. Furthermore, he was awarded “The Prize of Ink Painting” from the “Invited Exhibition of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan: The 9th Chinese National Art Exhibition” in 1999.