Chihoi 智海
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BIOGRAPHY
1977 Born in Hong Kong 1999 BA in Food and Nutritional Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Currently lives and works in Taiwan Chihoi (b.1977, Hong Kong) graduated at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences. Since 1996, the self-taught artist begins to release comics, illustration and writing in local press media. His comics appear in various international anthologies. Major comic albums include the collaborative exhibition Hijacking - Comic Hong Kong Literature (2007), The Train (2007) etc and participated exhibitions include solo exhibition “A Very Long Walk” (Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Taipei, 2019), “The Library and the Reading Room” (Mangasick, Taipei, 2018), “Permanent Transition” (CL3 Architects Ltd, Hong Kong, 2016), “New Dust” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2014) and group exhibition “The world is a show for my chosen eye's delight“ (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021), “Holiday Dance” (Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo, 2017) and “Tell a Rock to Relax” (We Make It Studio, Berlin, 2015). Chihoi currently lives and works in Taiwan. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Time Effaces Time, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan 2020 Panorama Reflection of the Tortoise and the Hare – Duo Exhibition by Chihoi & Son Ni, JXJ Gallery, Taiwan 2019 Library & 6F Basement, ACO Art Space, Hong Kong A Very Long Walk, Gallery Exit, Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Taipei, Taiwan 2018 The Library and The Reading Room, Mangasick, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Permanent Transition, CL3 Architects Ltd., Hong Kong 2014 Chihoi: New Dust, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2012 Behind the view-Duo Exhibition of Lulu Ngie and Chihoi, Cafe Showroom / Off-site 2010 “Unknown Emotion” Fumetto Comix Festival, Luzern, Switzerland 2008 碎片 Chop Chop Painting Pieces, Mushroom Booday Shop, Taipei 2007 Hochaaa! Chihoi's Comic, 10-Year Retrospective !, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hulahoop, and JP Jonsthan Shop. Hong Kong 2002 Reminiscence of Solitude, Club 64, Hong Kong 1999 The Summer, Eureka Bookshop, Hong Kong SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 One Escape at a Time, 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea Taiwan Scenery and its Tail, The Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong The world is a show for my chosen eye's delight, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2020 Castles in the Air, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 nos: boostore, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan 2017 To Each His Zone, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Holiday Dance, Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo, Japan 2015 Tell a Rock to Relax, We Make It Studio, Berlin, Germany after / image, Studio 52, Hong Kong 2014 4D Comics-Invitational Exhibition of Department of Fine Arts, Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Leung Ping Kwan (1949-2013), A Retrospectve, Hong Kong Central Library and Fringe Club, Hong Kong. And Huashan 1914, Taipei, Taiwan. 2013 Manchu, Nanjing Academy of Arts, Nanjing, China Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2012 Painting On and On: 2. Automatic Banana, SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong 2011 Octopus – Nine Contemporary Artists from Hong Kong, Hanina Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel There Are Trees Above, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Chernobyl 25th Anniversary Exhibition-Think Twice: A Nuclear Hong Kong ?, Greenpeace, Pier 8 Central 2010 Legacy and Creations-Art vs Art ", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai 2009 Lustfully Yours, Hulahoop, Hong Kong The Last Match, Survival Kit Project, Baltanakts, Riga, Lutvia Friendship, Small Press Expo 09, Gallery K1, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Textualizing Hong Kong, 11th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy Beautiful Journey, Beautiful World, Art Container Project West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Chine (s), Festival BD à Bastia, Centre Culturale Una Volta, Corsica, France China Comics Now, London College of Communication, London, UK Sinfonia – Chihoi and Hok Tak Yeung, BilBolBul Festival, Bologna, Italy 2007 Poetry and Comics, Taipei Poetry Festival, NTUE Nanhai Gallery, Taipei Autobibliophiles – Artists who make or use books, Studio Bibliotheque, Fo Tan, Hong Kong Remembering Hong Kong, Time Square, Hong Kong Comix Magneto – Singapore Version, Substation, Singapore Comix World Expo (Exposition universelle de la bande dessinée) – # 1 Seul dans la foule, International Comic Festival of Angoulême, France 2006 The Inner, Outer Sphere – Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Exhibition, KX Gallery, Hamburg, Germany District Borders, Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong Hong Kong Springrolllll – Past Continuous Tense, Fumetto Comix Festival, Luzern, Switzerland Comix Homebase – Comix Magneto, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2005 40075 km Comics, L'Employé du Moi, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium Three thousand-layer pudding, 1a Space, Hong Kong 2004 Portable Paysage, Ox Warehouse, Macau Comics and Poetry, East Bank Bookshop, Hong Kong 2000 Windows of Hong Kong, Fumetto Comix Festival, Luzern, Switzerland 1999 Cell C: Technicolor Comix Series, Z +, Hong Kong HONOURS AND AWARDS 2011 Désirée and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council PUBLICATIONS Comic Albums The Book Fight, mini kuš / Biedriba Grafiskie stasti, Latvia, 2020 圖書館，我和我聖人，nos:books，台灣 Fa Fa World 8: Home Signal, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Jul 2016. Fa Fa World 7: Taste of Rain, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Jul 2015. Fa Fa World 6: Bite to love, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Jul 2014. The Library, Conundrum Press, Canada, May 2013 Fa Fa World 5: How to write this word, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Jul 2013 Détournements – La Littérature de Hong Kong en Bande Désinnée , with Kongkee, translated by Camille Loivier, Atrabile, Swiss, May 2012. (French version of Hijacking - Hong Kong Comic Literature) Fa Fa World 4: Give Daddy a Kiss, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Jun 2012 Fa Fa World 3: My Teacher is a Cat, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Apr 2011 Fa Fa World 2: Longer Summer, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, May 2010 Le Train, Atrabile, Swiss, Apr 2010 (French version of The Train) Fa Fa World, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, May 2009. Simplified Chinese version: BBT Books, Apr 2011, Beijing A L'Horizon, Atrabile, Swiss, Oct 2008 (French version of selected short stories) Il Treno, translated by Giovanna Puppin, Canicola, Italy, Mar 2008 (Italian version of The Train) Hijacking - Hong Kong Comic Literature, co-author: Kongkee, Joint Publishing (HK), Hong Kong, Dec 2007 The Train, co-author Hung Hung, Dark Eyes Ltd, Taipei, 2007 Still Life, Wheatear Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, 2003. Re-edition Mar 2011 Piece of Mind, Igcool.com.inc. Hong Kong, Jul 2000 The Writer and Her Story, Chihoi, Hong Kong, 1999. Re-edition published by Kubrick & 29s, Jul 2007 The Writer, Chihoi, Hong Kong, 1997 Books Long Long Road – 25 Years of Independent Comics in Hong Kong, co-edited with Craig Au Yeung, Joint Publishing (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2006. Simplified Chinese version: Joint Publishing (Beijing), Jul 2007 Limited Edition Books and Zines The Emperor’s New Clothes, Nieves, Switzerland, 2018 Dream Books ii, nos:books, Taiwan, 2017 Good Afternoon, Hong Kong! (slide-viewer), nos:books, Taiwan, 2017 Dream Books, nos:books, Taiwan, Nov 2013 Comics in Anthologies "Table-tennis", in Super Towers, edited and printed by Vincent Fritz, Germany, Mar 2017. "Tram", in Comics Dialogue, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Hong Kong / Belgium, Sep 2016. "Fumetto Winners", in Fumetto Art Book, Fumetto Festival Luzern, Switzerland, Apr 2016. “Library” and “Borrowed Books”, in 敍事癖8, Beijing, China, Aug 2014. “Der Zug”, in Strapazin No.113, Swizterland, Dec 2013 "Hong Kong '83", in Strapazin No.112, Switzerland, Sep 2013 "Two Trees", collected in 2wBox Set W, B.ü.l.b. Comix, Swizterland, Nov 2010 "I'm with my Saint", collected in Lustfully Yours, hulahoop gallery, Hong Kong, Nov 2009. Italian version in Canicola 8, Canicola, Italy, 2009. Chinese version in Special Comix No.4, China, Nov 2010 "Stars", collected in Strapazin No.95, Strapazin, Strapazin, Jun 2009. Chinese version in Special Comix No.3, 2009. "Cartes Postales de Hong Kong", collected in Chine - Regards Croisés, Casterman, France, Mar 2009 "Mare" (Sea), collected in Canicola 4, Canicola, Bologna, Italy, 2006. French version "La Mer", collected in Bile Noire 16, Geneva, Swiss, Jan 2007. Norwegian version "Havet", in Forresten No.23, Oslo, Norway, Mar 2009. "The Whisper", collected in Stereoscomic #4, Stereoscomic, France, 2002. / English version "Whisper", collected in Spoutnik #3, Spoutnik, Canada, 2002. / Korean version in Sai Comics Vol.2, Sai Comics, Korea, 2006. / German version "Geflüster", in Strapazin No.86, Strapazin, Swizterland, Mar 2007. "20", collected in Comix 2000, L'Association, France, 2000 Columns 漫畫騎劫文學(Comics collaborate with江康泉), Fleurs des Lettres, Sep 2006 - Oct 2007 法國漫畫多o野睇(Comics Review), Ming Pao, May-Aug 2005 |