KWAN Sheung Chi 關尚智
BIOGRAPHY
1980 Born in Hong Kong 2003 BA in Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Currently works and lives in Hong Kong HIGHLIGHT 2013 “But is it Art? “Iknow but I don’t know.”, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2009 No matter. Try again. Fail again., Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Back to Basics, Oi!, Hong Kong 2017 Blue is the New Black, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong 2015 Well, you can have what's left of mine., Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan 2014 The 21st Century Undead Coterie of Contemporary Art, Para Site, Hong Kong 2013 Video Art Program: A window to the World, Hiroshima MOCA, Japan 2012 100 things, a little retrospective, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Collected Works, Yuka Tsuruno, Tokyo, Japan 2011 New Media Section, Art Taipei 2011, Taiwan 2009 No matter. Try again. Fail again., Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2006 I (still) like the way it is, Executive Centre, Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong She's Out of Town, art-lease.com ltd, Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong 2004 Works of Kwan Sheung Chi, Breakthrough Youth Village Gallery, Hong Kong 2002 A Retrospective of Kwan Sheung Chi, Experimental Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre Kwan Sheung Chi Touring Series Exhibitions, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre; Para/Site Art Space; Fringe Club; Grotto Fine Art Ltd; Para/Site Central; Hanart TZ Gallery; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Videotage; Artists Commune; Hong Kong Heritage Museum GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 20 Artists: Global Positioning, Public Art Fund, New York City, Chicago, and Boston, USA 2021 RHE ーShape of Water, Edouard Malingue Gallery/ EMG HK Tin Wan Studio, Hong Kong Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong 2019 In Younger Days, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Healthier, Simpler, Wiser, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai, China Dreams, illusions, phantom flowers presented by Edouard Malingue Gallery x Elephant West, London, UK Close, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2018 The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta’, Times Art Centre Berlin, Germany Dismantling the Scaffold, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong 2017 Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States 2016 Connect 4, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong Deck Voyage, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey Social Fabric: New Work by Mariana Hahn and Kwan Sheung Chi, MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong Intimate Curiosity - Invitation to Japanese Collectors of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Next Destination HK, Sotheby's Gallery, Hong Kong 2015 Familiar Otherness: Art Across Northeast Asia, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong I submit to the wisdom of the body, Silverlens, Makati City, Philippines Globale: Global Control and Censorship, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Iset Hotel, Yekaterinburg, Russia Clamour Can Melt Gold, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong Happy Together, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA after/image, Studio 52, Hong Kong Essential Matters, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey A Hundred Years of Shame – Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations, Para Site, Hong Kong The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer – Creator, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, Kochi, India Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2014 Kuandu Biennale – Recognition System, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Man’s Future Fund, Discover Asia, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan Golden Heights Estate, Para Site, Hong Kong 2013 “But is it Art? “Iknow but I don’t know.”, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong HUGO BOSS ASIA ART AWARD, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China BiennaleOnline 2013 Hong Kong Eye, ArtistTree, Hong Kong 2012 Philosopher’s (knock-off) Stone: Turning Gold into Plastic, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), Videotage, Hong Kong Kashiwa City Jack, Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Diasuke Miyatsu Collection, Kashiwa City, Japan Similarities and Differences, Asian Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, ArtShow Busan BEXCO, Korea Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong HONG KONG DIARY, Young video art from Hong Kong, 25 Bilder/Sekunde, Mannheim, Germany Gelassenheit: Letting It Be, 2P Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Running on the Sidelines, Hong Kong New Media Art Exhibition, Soka Art Center Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Wearable Exhibition: Bring Art Everywhere, Fotan, Hong Kong 2011 Homemade video from Hong Kong, CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea, ARAD, Szczecin, Poland; National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia; Arad Art Museum, Romania Except why not just come right out and say it:, Collectors House, Heerlen, The Netherlands 2010 Siu Sai Gual Bananale, Woofer Ten, Hong Kong Videozone V, The 5th International Video Biennial in Israel, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Homemade video from Hong Kong, Experimenta! Mostra De Videos, HSESC Campinas, Brazil Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple, ART HK 10, Hong Kong Specific Gravity, Location One, New York, United States of America The Pavilion of Realism, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China A Guide to Job Loss, Inheritance Projects, Shenzhen, China 2009 One Degree of Separation, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom Dwelling, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 6644 Fix it, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong No Show Miu, White Tube, Hong Kong Arts Centre Infant Phenomenon, White Tube, Hong Kong Arts Centre 2008 Looking for Antonio Mak, Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue Exhibition Series III, Hong Kong Museum of Art Inside Looking Out, Osage.Singapore, Singapore HK Unveiled - Contemporary Art in the SAR, Atting House, Hong Kong Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists who reclaim space, Artist Commune, Hong Kong ReForm, Mixed-media Exhibition, The Economist & Fringe Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong Everyday Anomalies, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom Sun of Beach, Wong Wai Wheel Artspace, Hong Kong Fotanian: Fotan Artists Open Studios 2008, Studio 615, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2007 Have You Eaten Yet? – 2007 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Time After Time, Basement, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong Outlook.Shenzhen, COCO Park, Shenzhen, China Reversing Horizons, Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China Back to the Basic, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong Inside Looking Out, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong; Osage Beijing, Beijing, China Strangers, Japanese & Hong Kong Artists Exchange Project, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan Primitive Contemporary, Asian Video Art Exhibition Series 8, Artists Commune, Hong Kong Variances in Singular, Too Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre Fotanian: Open Studio 2007, Studio 615, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2006 aWay, Group Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Artists, 1a space, Hong Kong Asian Traffic, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong Fotanian: Open Studio 2006, Studio 615, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2005 Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005, Hong Kong Museum of Art Irreality, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 2005 Hong Kong Artists' Biennial: Moonstruck, Club 64, Hong Kong MoleskineArt.com proj: exhibition, city'super, Times Square, Hong Kong 2004 Fotanian 2004, Studio 615, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong Summer Show 2004, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong 2003 Art Supermarket 2003, A Fundraising Event for Para/Site Art Space, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong Fotanian 2003, Studio 615, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong Being Idle, Shanghai Street Visual Artspace, Hong Kong Graduation: Moving Forward, Looking Backward, Graduation Exhibition of the Fine Arts Department, Art Museum, CUHK The Annual Exhibitions of the Fine Arts Department, the Art of CUHK 2003, Fine Arts Department, CUHK Young Artist Catering Programme, Exhibition & Workshop, CNEC, Hong Kong Lau Wing Sang Secondary School, Hong Kong 2002 Art Supermarket 2002, A Fundraising Event for Para/Site Art Space, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong Philippe Charriol Foundation 17th Annual Art Competition Finalists Exhibition, Time Square, Hong Kong; Macao Museum of Art, Macao Young Artists' Exhibition, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre Five Individuals, Cross University Student Exhibition, The Art School Learning Centre Gallery, Hong Kong 2001 Joint Exhibition of Kwan Sheung-chi & Li Chiu-wan, Foyer Gallery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, CUHK Million Road Installation Show, CUHK Art Festival 2001, Central Campus, CUHK Joint Funeral of Chow & Kwan, Expectation to Expectation, 1a space, Hong Kong The Annual Exhibitions of the Fine Arts Department, the Art of CUHK 2001, Fine Arts Department, CUHK Flat As Sample, Department of Fine Arts, CUHK 2000 Blue is Blue: A Contemporary Art Interpretation Exhibition, City Festival 2001, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong The Annual Exhibitions of the Fine Arts Department, the Art of CUHK 2000, Fine Arts Department, CUHK HONOURS AND AWARDS 2014 Jury Award “Huayu Youth Award”, Art Sanya, China 2013 Winner of “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART”, HUGO BOSS and Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai 2011 Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) of Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2011 2009 Starr Foundation Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, New York, Unite States of America 2003 Hui's Fine Arts Award, the Art of CUHK 2003, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2001 Cheung's Fine Arts Award, the Art of CUHK 2001, The Chinese University of Hong Kong COLLECTION Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Turkey Burger Collection, Hong Kong DSL Collection, France Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco M+, Hong Kong White Rabbit Collection, Australia Private Collections |