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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

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