Hilarie HON 韓幸霖
BIOGRAPHY Hilarie HON Born in 1994, Hong Kong Currently based in Hong Kong, Hilarie HON is an emerging visual artist who mainly works with oil painting. Hon paints with a deeply personal approach, which depicts intense, surreally unsettling scenes with bold, contrasting colours and cartoonish characters. The works express her inner perspectives on conflicted social interactions, and evoking the emotions, sense of alienation, and helplessness felt during nightmares. Hon graduated with a BA Visual Arts (Hons) at Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016, and she was awarded the AVA Keeper of Studies Collection Award. She participated in solo and group exhibitions organized by Gallery EXIT in Hong Kong, solos include Sunlight Murmur (2023); Yesterday's Brightness (2020); The Daily Disappearance of the Sun (2018); and BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM (2017); group shows include The world is a show for my chosen eye’s delight (2021); Shek-O Sublime (2019) and Art Shenzhen 2017. Other recent group exhibition participations include 31 Women Artist Hong Kong I (10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong, 2022); Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021 (Satoko Oe Contemporary, Japan, 2021); In Search of Absence (Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, 2021); Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves with (MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, 2019); Art 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (2018); and 9x9 (1a space, Hong Kong, 2017). The artist currently lives and works in Hong Kong. HIGHLIGHT 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021 Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021 In the search of absence, Korea Cultural Center in Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong The world is a show for my chosen eye's delight, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2020 Yesterday Brightness, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Shek-O Sublime, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong 2018 ART021, Gallery Exit, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, China The Daily Disappearance of the Sun, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2017 Art Shenzhen 2017, Gallery Exit, Shenzhen, China BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2016 Szelit CHEUNG, Hilarie HON, Ashlee IP Wai Ting, Him LO, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Yesterday Brightness, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 The Daily Disappearance of the Sun, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2017 BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 31 Women Artist Hong Kong I, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong 2021 Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021 In the search of absence, Korea Cultural Center in Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong The world is a show for my chosen eye's delight, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves with, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Shek-O Sublime, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong 2018 ART021, Gallery Exit, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, China HASHTAG, Ping Pong, Hong Kong 2017 Art Shenzhen 2017, Gallery Exit, Shenzhen, China 9x9, 1a Space, Hong Kong 2016 SHIFT: AVA 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong HKForeword 16, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Szelit CHEUNG, Hilarie HON, Ashlee IP Wai Ting, Him LO, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong AVA BA GRAD SHOW 2016, Graduation Exhibition, Kai Tak Campus, HKBU ”Ngaan”, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, HKBU 2015 In the Name of Drawing, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University HONOURS AND AWARDS 2016 AVA Keeper of Studies Collection Award, Academy of Visual Arts 2013 Swire University Scholarship RELATED ARTICLES
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