Johnson Chang is a curator and dealer of contemporary Chinese art. He is a co-founder of the Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong and a guest professor of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. The New York Times described him as "a force in contemporary Chinese art since the 1980s",and Sotheby's described him as "the godfather of contemporary Chinese art".
Linda Lai Chiu-han (黎肖嫻),also known as Linda Chiu-han Lai,is a Hong Kong-based academic,artist,curator and art historian working at the intersections of experimental video art,interactive media and cultural history. Lai was Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong;she retired on 1 July 2023. She is the founder and artistic director of the Writing Machine Collective and runs a self-funded art space called Floating Projects and works as an independent curator of moving image.
M+ is an art museum located in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong. It exhibits twentieth and twenty-first century art encompassing visual art,design and architecture,and moving image. It opened on 12 November 2021.
Almond CHU is a Hong Kong-based artist and photographer,known for his black and white photographs and large format conceptual color images.
Doris Wong Wai Yin,is a Hong Kong born artist,working with various types of media such as paintings,sculpture,collages,installations,videos and photography. Through her works,she explores her internal conflicts,raising and answering questions about her journey of motherhood,fears,and struggle with self-doubt.
Claire Hsu is the co-founder and the former executive director of Asia Art Archive (AAA),an independent non-profit organisation founded in 2000 to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in Asia. In September 2021,Hsu stepped down as executive director of AAA after twenty-one years. She acts as the co-chair of AAA's board of directors.
Lam Tung Pang is a Hong Kong artist,and one of the founders of the Fotanian art movement in Hong Kong. He lives and works in London and Hong Kong. His work focuses on themes such as collective memory and humanity.
Ha Bik Chuen,also known as Xia Biquan was a Hong Kong painter,sculptor,photographer and craftsman. Born in Xinhui,Guangdong Province of China,he moved to Hong Kong in 1957,and began to study sculpture. He joined the Chinese Contemporary Artists' Guild in 1960. He is also a member of Hong Kong Visual Arts Society,Hong Kong Graphic Society and Hong Kong Sculptors Association.
Para Site is an independent,non-profit art space based in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1996 by artists Patrick Lee,Leung Chi-wo,Phoebe Man Ching-ying,Sara Wong Chi-hang,Leung Mee-ping,Tsang Tak-ping and Lisa Cheung. It produces exhibitions,public programmes,residencies,conferences and educational initiatives that aim to develop a critical understanding of local and international contemporary art.
Mok Hing Ling is a Chinese modern ink painting artist. The alterations of nature are a major theme in Mok's works. Her technique employs a brush-like sponge as the portrayal tool to get certain natural results.
Nilima Sheikh is a visual artist based in Baroda,India.
Samson Young is a Hong Kong artist,working primarily in the mediums of sound performance and installations.
Ivy Ma is a Hong Kong visual artist specializing in mixed media works. Her works were featured in the Hong Kong Art Biennial in 2005 and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards in 2012. She was the winner of the Young Artist Award category of the 2012 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards. She was one of the fifteen artists included in the online Artshare exhibition entitled Resistance dedicated to Hong Kong artists,curated by art writer Caroline Ha Thuc. Recipients of the FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council,she participated in various artist-in-residence programs and international artist workshops in Bangladesh,Finland,Åland,and the USA from 2005 to 2009. Her works are in the collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and is part of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Complex Art Acquisition Project commissioned by the Hong Kong Legislative Council Commission.
Spring Workshop was a nonprofit arts organization based in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2018. It was founded as a cross-disciplinary residency program and exhibition space. In 2016,Spring received the Prudential Eye Award for Best Asian Contemporary Art Organization.
Out of Context is a self-organized art exhibition in Hong Kong that took place from 9 to 10 October 1987 at a now-demolished Eu family mansion on 15 Kennedy Road. Co-curated by Christine Loh,Hugh Chiverton and Lianne Hackett,and presented in association with the Hong Kong Arts Centre,the exhibition displayed works by twenty-one artists,artist groups and practitioners,ranging from painting,sculpture,photography to installation,performance and video art. Out of Context provides a glimpse of the contemporary arts scene in Hong Kong during the '80s,filling in a period in Hong Kong art history that is often not widely documented and circulated. In addition,taking place three years after the signing of the Sino–British Joint Declaration,a historical moment for Hong Kong,some of the works expressed concerns towards the 1997 Handover from a cultural perspective.
Jaffa Lam is a Chinese visual artist. She is known for her mixed-media sculptures and site-specific works that inquire into Hong Kong culture and history. Lam often uses recycled materials such as found fabric or wood from construction sites. She began focusing on community engagement and socially responsible art at the time of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003. And since then,she has created many community-driven projects in Hong Kong and abroad. In 2006,she received the Asian Cultural Council's Desiree and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship. Her works have been acquired by public institutions,including Hong Kong Museum of Art,Hong Kong Heritage Museum,and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lam is also known as an educator. She is currently Academic Head at the Hong Kong Art School.
The visual art of Hong Kong,or Hong Kong art,refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with Hong Kong throughout its history and towards the present. The history of Hong Kong art is closely related to the broader history of Chinese art,alongside the art of Taiwan and Macau. Hong Kong art may include pottery and rock art from Hong Kong's prehistoric periods;calligraphy,Chinese ink painting,and pottery from its time under Imperial China;paintings from the New Ink Painting Movement and avant-garde art emerging during Hong Kong's colonial period;and the contemporary art practices in post-handover Hong Kong today.
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu is a Mongolian artist. As a "contemporary master of Mongol Zurag",she incorporates traditional patterns and Buddhist motifs in her paintings and draws on experiences of Mongolian women and the everyday lives of post-nomadic Mongolia.
Thảo Nguyên Phan is a Vietnamese visual multimedia artist whose practice encompasses painting,filmmaking,and installation. She currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City and has exhibited widely in Vietnam and abroad. Drawing inspiration from both official and unofficial histories,Phan references her country's turbulent past while observing ambiguous issues in social convention,history,and tradition. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam and abroad,at many public institutions,including the Factory Contemporary Art Centre,Ho Chi Minh City;Nha San Collective,Hanoi;Rockbund Art Museum,Shanghai;Times Art Center in Berlin,Timișoara;and the Mistake Room,Los Angeles.
Videotage is a Hong Kong-based non-profit art organisation dedicated to nurturing emerging media artists and the development of the local new media art community.
