Artist / Hector Chan
Born in Hong Kong in 1991, Hector Chan Wai-Kit he finished his MA in Fine Arts in University of Arts London – Chelsea College of Arts in 2018, graduated from BA in Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2015; and studied in Fine Arts Academy of Bologna during study exchange in 2014.
Chan has been curating and participating in exhibitions of Hong Kong and London, some of his artworks are privately collected. Chan also works for art and cultural education, and has been a special lecturer in Chelsea College of Arts. He is currently living and working in Hong KongChan’s practice explores how the creative process of pictures, paintings and drawings could capture the fluency, rapidness and quantity of dynamic images, and hence catch up and assemble the desire of seeing and memory.
Dynamic of gesture smoothens and extends the ways of seeing, it strikes into the eyes and summons the torrent of images in mind instantly, which brings an image more than an image. Sometimes it penetrates time at a moment, summoning the next moment of the movement; and sometimes it penetrates the memory, connecting similar scenes together. Dynamic is a fluent extendibility for images which summons our desire to see across the present image. Furthermore, it is not only an extended desire, but also a symptom of desire itself for the rapidness and quantity of seeing in the image-flooding era.
For Chan, painting is an action responding to the desire of seeing. He sometimes condenses painting’s content to extend the capacity of painting body and catch up the quantity of images; sometimes construct the range of association by collective words and drawings; sometimes he disperses complexity into multiple paintings and drawings to improve fluency of painting process and catch up the freshness of desire.
Education
2018 MA in Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London (UAL)
2015 BA (Honors) Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
2014 Study Exchange (Erasmus), Fine Arts Academy of Bologna, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Flow and Hover, ACO 6/F Art Space, Fu Tak BuildingHong Kong
2021 Homeland, Mist Gallery, HK
2017 Martial Rhythm in a Second, Second Street Mall, Hong Kong
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 New Page, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Mark-Making, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 Contemporary Romatics, Young Club Gallery, Art Next Gallery, HK
2022 Half the Sky; The Sky is the Limit, SHOUT Contemporary, HK
2021 Drawer-Jam, 1999 Art Space, HK
2021 Art(Work) From Home, Contemporary by Angela Li, HK
2020“If Van Gogh…”, Form Society, 186 Tai Nam Street, HK
2019 New Art Now, AVA Gallery, Kai Tak Campus, HK
2018 Karen Tronel London, UK
2018 Drake’s Rejects, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
2018 Chelsea Summer Show 2018, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2018 “If Van Gogh…”, MAFA Chelsea Gallery, London, UK
2018 “& AnOther Angle” Group Show, Maxilla Space, London, UK
2018 “Narrative Wave” International Public Art Fiesta, Narrative Movements
2018 MA Fine Art Interim Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2018 “4 Scopes” Joint Exhibition, MAFA Chelsea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018 MA Fine Art Open Studios, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2017 "murmur", Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 "OOOOO", Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
Curatorship
2021 Drawer-Jam / 1999 Art Space, HK
2020 “If Van Gogh…”/ Form Society, 186 Tai Nam Street, Hong Kong
2018 “If Van Gogh…” / MAFA Chelsea Gallery, London, UK
2018 4 Scopes” Joint Exhibition / MAFA Chelsea Gallery, London, UK
2017 "murmur" / Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 "OOOOO" / Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong