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Artist / Ho Sin Tung

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Ho Sin Tung was born and currently living in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department in Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. Ho imagines and participates in the world through researching it. She regards research as a method to lost oneself steadily. Navigating through the texts and materials, Ho encounters punctum that haunts her. Those could not be named thus transformed into works. This is a way to live with it. Ho has a penfriend who describes her as such: "Ho Sin Tung regards the dead as the living. Objects, events, knowledge gain the status of the living in her world. They have their own face and so dignified that they cannot be categorized."

 

Apart from drawing, installation and video, Ho also regards writing as one of her essential practice. Her translations, reviews and fictions are published in various medias and literal magazines. She is one of the co-founder of alternative space POWWOW - it is a base for cultural practitioners from all fields to exercise, play, mingle, and learn to care for both their body and mind. It seeks to bring various artistic communities together through sports (especially martial arts) and fun, and to become an agglomerating point for creative spirits to collide in informal yet structured frameworks. Without emphasising on the production or exhibition aspects of art, it will be a playground for creativity to ferment and take shape without being driven by ‘objectives’ or directed by the capitalistic impulses of productivity and efficiency.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020     

Swampland, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

2017     

Maybe They Will Die For Us Tomorrow, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong

             

Surfaced, Chambers Fine Art, New York

2016     

Dusty Landscape, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing

2015     

Icarus Shrugged, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

2012     

Hong Kong Inter-vivos Film Festival, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

2011     

Folie à deux, Experimenta, Hong Kong

2010     

Don’t shoot the messenger, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 

Mark-Making, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong

2022

Post-Human Narratives: In the Name of Scientific Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong

The Sunshine is still here, SC Gallery, Hong Kong

31 Women Artists – Hong Kong, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

TBC, 480.0, Hong Kong

2021

Curtain, Para Site, Hong Kong

Post-Human Narratives: Co-Existing Land, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong

2020

Post-Human Narratives, Online Exhibition

Tongueless, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong

The Space Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong

2019     

Yummy Gummy, Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong

What is it that makes today’s LIFE so different?, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing

The Pulse of Nature - Lung Fu Shan, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong

Shek O-Sublime, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2018     

The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center, Berlin

How To See [What Isn’t There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany

Wan Chai Grammatica: Past, Present, Future Tense, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

Women in Art: Hong Kong, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2017     

Ambiguously Yours : Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong​

2016     

Animamix Biennale:  Space in Mind, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China

The (non) Existing Memory of Hong Kong in Literary Text, Comix Home Base, Hong Kong

Next Destination: Hong Kong, Exhibition of William Lim’s Living Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong

2015     

The Human Body: Measure and Norms, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong

Polyphony III - Ecological Survey of Chinese Art - Pearl River Delta, Hall 3 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 

Here Is Where We Meet, Duddell’s, Hong Kong

After/Image, Studio 52, Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong

2014    

SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea 

The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Animamix Biennale 2013-14: This Slow .That Fast, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2013    

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 

HETEROTOPIA, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea

The Floating Eternity, Para Site, Hong Kong

Drawing: Expression and Limit, Hall 2 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 

2012    

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 

Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

The 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 

The Repository of Coherent Babbles, Southsite, Hong Kong

CAFAM . FUTURE, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China

2011    

Octopus, Hanina Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Urban Utopia: if and only if, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong

2010   

Drawing Out Conversations: Taipei, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Shifting Topography, Hanart Square, Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 

Awards

2019  

Finalist of Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year”, ART021 and Porsche

2015  

Finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Sovereign Art Foundation

2013  

Finalist of Lu Xun Culture Award - Award for Best Artwork, Soho.com and Lu Xun Culture Foundation 

2012  

Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2012 - Award for Young Artist, Hong Kong Arts Development Council

2012  

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art

2010  

Finalist of Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards 2010, Societe Generale

2009  

Finalist of Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art 

2008  

Hui Yeung Sing Fine Arts Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2007  

Cheung's Fine Arts Awards, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2006  

Gaylord Chan Painting Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2006  

Lui Lup-fun Creative Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong


 

Artist-in-Residency

2016    Living in Creative Fongshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Oct)

2013    Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, Vermont, USA (Oct - Nov)

2013    SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (July - Sept) 

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