Artist / Chow Chun Fai
Graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Fine Arts
(BA and MFA). In 2012 he ran in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, for the
Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency. Most recently his work
has been featured in the exhibitions: A Mirage of a Shining City (Tang Contemporary
Art Hong Kong 2023); Always After Now (Touch Gallery Hong Kong 2022); Portrait
From Behind (Gallery Exit Hong Kong 2020); Chow Chun Fai (Eli Klein Gallery New
York 2018); Everything Comes With an Expiry Date (Klein Sun Gallery New York 2016); Venice Meeting Point (Venice Biennale 2015); Hong Kong Eye (Saatchi Gallery London 2012), the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool 2012). Chow is a the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Awards, and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Education
2006 M.F.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2003 B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘Always After Future’ Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 ‘A Mirage of a Shining City’, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2022 ‘Always After Now’, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 ‘Portrait From Behind’, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2018 ‘CHOW Chun Fai’, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
2016 ‘CHOW Chun Fai: Everything Comes With an Expiry Date’, Klein Sun
Gallery, New York
2015 ‘CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Nothing to Say’, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 ‘CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Something to Say’, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 ‘Cultural Rights – Artist Running An Election’, the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2010 ‘Reproduction of Reproduction’, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 ‘Not Fine Art’, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 ‘Shanghai Tan - Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai’, Galleria dell'Arco, Shanghai
2008 ‘Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai’, ViennaFair, Vienna
2008 ‘Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai’, China International Gallery Exposition,
Beijing
2008 ‘Paintings, Videos and Photography by CHOW Chun Fai’, Hanart TZ
Gallery, Hong Kong
2005 ‘Significance Form: Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai’, GrottoFineart, Hong
Kong
2004 ‘Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai’, State of Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
2003 ‘Painting, Grass, Ceiling—Paintings by Chow Chun-Fai’, Hong Kong Art
Centre, Hong Kong
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 ‘Venice Meeting Point’, Arsenale Venice
2015 ‘The Past Continuing’, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
2014 ‘All Are Guests - Homecoming’, Hong Kong Museum of Art
2014 ‘Light And Shadows- Caravaggio- The Italian Baroque Master’, Asia Society,
Hong Kong
2014 ‘This Slow‧That Fast: Animamix Biennale’, Run Run Shaw Creative Media
Centre, Hong Kong
2013 ‘Art Basel’, Hong Kong
2012 ‘Hong Kong Eye’, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012 ‘Liverpool Biennial’, Liverpool
2011 ‘Chongqing Biennale for Young Artists’, Chongqing Art Museum, Sichuan
Academy of Fine Arts
2010 ‘Legacy and Creations-Art vs Art’, MOCA, Shanghai
2010 ‘Installation and Sculpture about FungShui’, Wooferten, Hong Kong
2010 ‘Butterfly Effect’, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, China
2009 ‘VIENNAFAIR’, Vienna
2009 ‘Art Brussels’, Traversee Gallery
2009 ‘Second Skin’, Osage Gallery, Singapore
2009 ‘Charming Experience’, Hong Kong Museum of Art
2008 ‘Effetto Stalker#2’, Galleria dell'Arco, Palermo, Italy
2008 ‘Beautiful Journey Beautiful World’, West Kowloon Cultural District,
Hong Kong
2007 ‘The Pivotal Decade: Hong Kong Art’, Manchester UK
2007 ‘China’s Next Wave’, Munich, Germany
2007 ‘Reversing Horizons’, MOCA, Shanghai
2007 ‘Inside Looking Out’, Osage Hong Kong and Osage Beijing
2006 ‘Beyond Foreordination--Contemporary Photography Exhibition’, 798,
Beijing
2005 ‘YCCA - Yong Chinese Contemporary Art’, HangART-7, Austria
2003 ‘Matrix Inside Out: Paintings by AU Hoi Lam & CHOW Chun Fai’,
GrottoFineart, Hong Kong
2003 ‘The Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003’, Hong Kong Museum of Art
2001 ‘Joint Funeral of Chow & Kwan’, 1a space, Hong Kong
Public Collection
21 C Museum, Louisville, KY, United States
Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong
Frank Suss Collection, London, United Kingdom
Hotel Icon, Hong Kong
Harbour City, Hong Kong
Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
HangArt-7, Salzburg, Austria
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Swire Properties, Hong Kong
The Pawn, Hong Kong
Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Switzerland
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia
The Franks-Suss Collection, Australia