Artist / Ho Sin Tung
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)