Tobe KAN 簡喬倩
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BIOGRAPHY Born in Hong Kong 2017 BAFA from RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School Currently lives and works in Hong Kong. Tobe Kan is a Hong Kong based visual artist who specializes in painting, while she also experiments with mixed-media drawing, installation and poetry. Received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School in 2017, Kan based her artistic practice on psychoanalysis and personal experiences of her own mental state, and of those around her, exploring human conditions such as personal loss, insecurity, depression, sense of isolation and fear of being forgotten. Her works often take an expressionist approach, with the use of dark colours and bold lines. Kan was the recipient of the Fresh Trend Art Award of the Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition in 2017. Her solo shows organised by Gallery EXIT in Hong Kong include Liminal Interval (2023); Panacea (2021) and duo exhibition This Bitter Earth (2019); other selected solos include of war, of love, of time (Peter Augustus Gallery, USA, 2022) and Peck-eyes Ravens (CL3 Architects Limited, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2018. Group exhibition participations include Gravity (Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2022); Intersect Aspen (Peter Augustus Gallery, USA, 2022); The Sunshine Is Still There (SC Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); The Unsung (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021); In the course of Dancing, from Nightfall to Darkness (Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 2020); By the Window (1a space, Hong Kong, 2019); and An on-going balance of insecurity (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018). Kan’s works have been acquired into numerous private collections. HIGHLIGHT 2023 Liminal Interval, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021 Panacea, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 This Bitter Earth, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 An on-going balance of insecurity, GALLERY EXIT, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Liminal Interval, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2022 of war, of love, of time, Peter Augustus Gallery, USA 2021 Panacea, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 This Bitter Earth, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 Peck-eyes Ravens, CL3 Architects Limited, Hong Kong Arts Centre GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong In Wonderland, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong Sweeping Vistas, JPS Gallery, Hong Kong 2022 Gravity, Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong Intersect Aspen, Peter Augustus Gallery, USA The Sunshine Is Still There, SC Gallery, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2021 +1, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong So I say, “It’s a landscape painting.”, The Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre The Unsung, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong 2020 Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel, 1a space, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre In the course of Dancing, from Nightfall to Darkness, The Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre 2019 TAKE 1 • Group Exhibition of Hong Kong Young Artists, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery By the Window, 1a space, Hong Kong 2018 An on-going balance of insecurity, GALLERY EXIT, Hong Kong Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre PROCESSING : on reading art, School Gallery (HKAS), Hong Kong Arts Centre 2017 Deep Silence, HKAS Alumni Network exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong NEXT+, Art Next Expo, PMQ Central, Hong Kong HKFOREWORD17, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong HONOURS AND AWARDS 2017 Fresh Trend Art Award, Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition 2016 Scholarship, Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship, Hong Kong Art School Scholarship, Talent Development, Education Bureau, Hong Kong RELATED ARTICLES
Artomity, September, 2021
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