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Chihoi  智海

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 “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.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
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
 
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HONOURS AND AWARDS
2011
Désirée and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council
 

PUBLICATIONS
Comic Albums
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
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
Comics in土製香港, Joint Publishing (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, Jul 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
"Year of Change", collected in Sai Comics No.5, Sai Comics, Nov 2008
種米吧!, in漫漫食, 凌速姊妹(集團)有限公司, Hong Kong, Aug 2008
"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.
狗類, in漫畫家的欲望, Hong Kong Arts Centre / Artopia,2006
橫豎憂愁,疏離, in香港春卷, Dala Pub, Taiwan, 2006
"Food for Cat", collected in Ma Petite Cuisine, Emile a une Vache, France, 2005
"Children Land", collected in Chez Jérôme Comix #74, France, 2003
"The Low (Side B)", in回到「教育」本身──教育體制以外的教育行動, 街角, 2002
Oral Love, collected in Yummy Dragon #1 - The Amazing Oral Stories, Chihoi, 2002
"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.
一對夫婦, in港島線, 黎達達榮著, 一本堂, 2001
"Contemplation", collected in Stereoscomic Special SPX, Stereoscomic, France, 2001
"The End of October", collected in Mécanique Urbaine #3, Les Ateliers du Vent, France, 2000
"The Sleep", collected in Yummy Dragon # 0, Chihoi, 2000
"Contemplation", collected in Stereoscomic #2, Stereoscomic, France, 2000
"20", collected in Comix 2000, L'Association, France, 2000
"The Low", collected in Cockroach #4, Igcool.com.inc., 2000
"The Two", collected in Cockroach #3, Homework Production & Commercial Radio Productions Ltd., 1999
"The End, Beautiful Friend", collected in Cockroach #2, Homework Production & Commercial Radio Productions Ltd., 1998
勿當奴, in各位同志晚安漫畫集, Zuni Icosahedron, 1998

Columns 
花花世界(Comics), The Sun, Feb 2008 / Now 
夜長夢多(Comics), Sing Pao, Sep-Dec 2007
Comic in Muse magazine, Aug 2007-2009
漫畫騎劫文學(Comics collaborate with江康泉), Fleurs des Lettres, Sep 2006 - Oct 2007
漫畫生活(Comics), Ming Pao Weekly, Apr 2006 / Now
星期日漫畫 (Comics collaborate with江康泉), Ming Pao, Sep 2005 - Jun 2006
法國漫畫多o野睇(Comics Review), Ming Pao, May-Aug 2005
交叉感染(Comics collaborate with謝曉虹), Artslink, Jan-Dec 2005

Illustration & Text
會飛的手──秀陶詩選 (Illustration), written by秀陶, Dark Eyes Ltd., Taipei, Jan 2016
可以居──白沙澳鄉 (Illustration), Edited by Ki Wong, KaiTak Campus, Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Hong Kong, 2015
Hop Inn (Mural), Hong Kong, Jan 2015/Sep 2011/Nov 2010
夢華錄 (Illustration), written by Dung Kai Cheung, Linking Publishing, Taipei, Jun 2011                         
炭燒的城(Illustration), written by 洛楓, 文化工房, Hong Kong, Jan 2011
雷聲與蟬鳴(Illustration), written by Leung Ping-kwan, 文化工房, Hong Kong, Oct 2009
更美好年代──手製文具創作筆記(Illustration), written by Benedict Leung, Sunrise Thunder Storm / Kubrick,2007
連續下雨兩星期後的香港春天 (Illustration), in i-城志, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2005
邊城聲光 (Illustration), in低保真, written by陳滅, 麥穗, 2004
弓在馬桶上的憶述者(Illustration), written by 袁兆昌, 廿九几 / 陳湘記, 2003
室 (fiction), in Danny Boy─香港文學小說選2, 香港文學, 2003
西行 (fiction, Illustration),in Simple Love, 麥穗 / Creato, 2002
病忘書 (Illustration), 潘國靈著, 指南針, 2001

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