Chow Chun Fai 周俊輝
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BIOGRAPHY
1980 Born in Hong Kong Currently lives and works in Hong Kong, Chow Chun Fai works mostly with paintings and photo installation. He is best known for his ongoing Painting of Movie series, which appropriate cutscenes with matching subtitles from local New Wave movie classics and contemporary international cinema. The series encapsulate local culture and collective memories with a touch of Chow’s sarcasm and humour. He also paints to depict the Hong Kong urban landscape, observe and respond to the city’s socio-political tensions in present day. Chow’s works often question the transforming localness and cultural identity of Hong Kong. Chow obtained his BA and MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Awards and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. His works have been featured locally and internationally, recent solo presentations include: Always After Now (Touch Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); Portrait From Behind (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2020); CHOW Chun Fai (Eli Klein Gallery, New York, 2018); and Everything Comes With an Expiry Date (Klein Sun Gallery, New York, 2016). Significant group exhibition inclusions such as Venice Meeting Point (Venice Biennale 2015); Hong Kong Eye (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2012); and the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2012), among others. Chow’s works are in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, M+ Museum Sigg Collection (Hong Kong), Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Hangart-7 (Austria), Swire Properties (Hong Kong), Deutsche Bank (Hong Kong), to name a few. Chow is an activist, and the chairperson of Fotanian Artist Village. In 2012, he ran, unsuccessfully, for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency in the Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. HIGHLIGHT 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2020 Portraits from Behind, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Always After Now, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong 2020 Portraits from Behind, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 CHOW Chun Fai, Eli Klein Gallery, New York 2016 CHOW Chun Fai: Everything Comes With an Expiry Date, Klein Sun Gallery, New York 2015 CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Nothing to Say, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Something to Say, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Cultural Rights – Artist Running An Election, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 2010 Reproduction of Reproduction, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2009 Not Fine Art, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2008 Shanghai Tan - Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Galleria dell'Arco, Shanghai Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Vienna Fair, Vienna Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing Paintings, Videos and Photography by CHOW Chun Fai, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2005 Significance Form: Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Grotto Fine art, Hong Kong 2004 Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, State of Arts Gallery, Hong Kong 2003 Painting, Grass, Ceiling—Paintings by Chow Chun-Fai, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2015 Venice Meeting Point, Arsenale Venice The Past Continuing, Hong Kong Heritage Museum 2014 All Are Guests - Homecoming, Hong Kong Museum of Art Light And Shadows- Caravaggio- The Italian Baroque Master, Asia Society, Hong Kong This Slow‧That Fast: Animamix Biennale, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong 2013 Art Basel Hong Kong 2012 Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool 2011 Chongqing Biennale for Young Artists, Chongqing Art Museum/ Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts 2010 Legacy and Creations-Art vs Art, MOCA, Shanghai Installation and Sculpture about FungShui, Wooferten, Hong Kong Butterfly Effect, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, China 2009 VIENNAFAIR, Vienna Art Brussels, Traversee Gallery Second Skin, Osage Gallery, Singapore Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2008 Effetto Stalker#2, Galleria dell'Arco, Palermo, Italy Beautiful Journey Beautiful World, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong 2007 The Pivotal Decade: Hong Kong Art, Manchester UK China’s Next Wave, Munich, Germany Reversing Horizons, MOCA, Shanghai Inside Looking Out, Osage Hong Kong and Osage Beijing 2006 Beyond Foreordination-Contemporary Photography Exhibition, 798, Beijing 2005 YCCA - Yong Chinese Contemporary Art, HangART-7, Austria 2003 Matrix Inside Out: Paintings by AU Hoi Lam & CHOW Chun Fai, Grotto Fine art, Hong Kong The Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2001 Joint Funeral of Chow & Kwan, 1a space, Hong Kong RELATED ARTICLES
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