Ivy MA King Chu 馬琼珠
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BIOGRAPHY
1973 Born in Hong Kong 2001 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) 2002 MA Feminist Theory and Practice in Visual Art University of Leeds, UK Currently lives and works in Hong Kong Ivy Ma King Chu (b. 1973) received her MA Degree of Feminist Theory and Practice in Visual Art at University of Leeds in UK in 2002 and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2001. Cultivating an aesthetic characterized by quietness and stillness, MA’s work becomes a philosophical reflection on nature and history. Looking, collecting, drawing and thinking, she works her way through history to find what we might call "the human thread" running through everything. The objects she collects, the images she selects, and the occasional photographs and videos she produces all strike a similar chord, one that is at once uncanny, disturbing and beautiful. Participated exhibitions include “As Time Folds” As Time Folds” (Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong, 2018), “Last Year” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2015), group exhibition “The Space Between the Words Are Almost Infinite“ (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2020), “By the Window” (1a Space, Hong Kong, 2018), “Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry“ (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2018), “Hong Kon Art Biennial Exhibition” (Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 2006), “Curiosities” (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2005). MA currently lives and works in Hong Kong. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 As Time Folds, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong 2015 Last Year, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2014 Someone, Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio, Hong Kong 2012 Numbers Standing Still, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2011 Gazes, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme V: Still Lifes and Waves – Works by Ivy Ma, Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong 2010 Hardly Entered, Already Gone, YY9 Gallery, Hong Kong 2009 Untitled (Deer Running), Hidamari Art (window space), Gifu, Japan 2007 Perhaps Solitude, Fotan Studio Open Day 2007, Fotan, Hong Kong 2001 Nothing At All, The Art School Learning Centre Galleries, Hong Kong SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 The Space Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 By The Windows, 1a Space, Hong Kong Social Transformation, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong The Crossing, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong What Has Been, Will Be Lost Until We Find It, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 2017 Ink Asia Art Fair 2017, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Deep Silence - Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network Exhibition 2017, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong (An)other-Half: Being a Wife/Mother and the Practices of the Self, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong Art Travellers Exhibition Series I : Decoding Exotic Lands, Art Promotion Office, Hong Kong 2016 Islands' Narrative: Literature X Visual Art, 1a space, Hong Kong as the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Collaboration Art Project , 1a space, Hong Kong Art Basel HK 2016, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2015 Ceramics Show by Non-ceramics Artists, 1a space, Hong Kong 2013 Art Basel HK 2013, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Painting On and On: Intertextuality, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2012 Running on the Sidelines - Hong Kong New Media Art Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 2011 Rediscover Photography, China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2011, China 2010 Exhibiting Experiments. Experimenting Exhibitions, Wrong Place, JCCAC, Hong Kong City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography, Hong Kong Heritage Museum In Details, agnèsb.'s LIBRAIRE GALERIE, Hong Kong 2009 Imaging Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central Library / Edge Gallery 2008 Women's Work, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong Art Container Project, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong 2007 October Contemporary 2007, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong A Separate Domain, Hui Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2006 Between the Observer and the Observed, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China Second Skin, 3 Boxes, Hong Kong Media Art Show, Vasl International Artists' Collective, Pakistan Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art Stained, the eclipsed pattern, Uma-g Gallery, Hong Kong 2005 Curiosities, Para/Site, Hong Kong 2004 Dream Garden, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong 2003 Meat, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong 2002 Articulation, University of Leeds, UK 2001 Wo-Man, Female Artists Installation, Old Ladies House, Macau Girls' Thing, Fringe Club, Hong Kong HONOURS AND AWARDS 2012 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award, Young Artists Award, Hong Kong Museum of Art 2007 Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council 2001-2002 Hong Kong Arts Development Council – FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship ART RESIDENCY 2008 Location One, New York City, USA The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2007 The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence, Kökar, Åland PUBLICATION 2012 Ivy Ma: This Room is not Still, Gallery EXIT |