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Chow Chun Fai  周俊輝

BIOGRAPHY
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CHOW Chun Fai
Born in 1980, Hong Kong

Currently lives and works in Hong Kong, Chow Chun Fai works mostly with paintings and photo installation. He is best known for his ongoing Painting of Movie series, which appropriate cutscenes with matching subtitles from local New Wave movie classics and contemporary international cinema. The series encapsulate local culture and collective memories with a touch of Chow’s sarcasm and humour. He also paints to depict the Hong Kong urban landscape, observe and respond to the city’s socio-political tensions in present day. Chow’s works often question the transforming localness and cultural identity of Hong Kong.
 
Chow obtained his BA and MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Awards and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. His works have been featured locally and internationally, recent solo presentations include: Always After Now (Touch Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); Portrait From Behind (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2020); CHOW Chun Fai (Eli Klein Gallery, New York, 2018); and Everything Comes With an Expiry Date (Klein Sun Gallery, New York, 2016). Significant group exhibition inclusions such as Venice Meeting Point (Venice Biennale 2015); Hong Kong Eye (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2012); and the Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2012), among others. Chow’s works are in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, M+ Museum Sigg Collection (Hong Kong), Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Hangart-7 (Austria), Swire Properties (Hong Kong), Deutsche Bank (Hong Kong), to name a few.
 
Chow is an activist, and the chairperson of Fotanian Artist Village. In 2012, he ran, unsuccessfully, for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency in the Hong Kong Legislative Council Election.

HIGHLIGHT
2023
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2022
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2021
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2020
Portraits from Behind, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2019
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 
Map of Amnesia, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong 

2023 
Interview the Interviewer, SC Gallery, Hong Kong 

2022
Always After Now, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong

2020
Portraits from Behind, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2018
CHOW Chun Fai, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
 
2016
CHOW Chun Fai: Everything Comes With an Expiry Date, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
 
2015
CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Nothing to Say, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2013
CHOW Chun Fai: I Have Something to Say, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Cultural Rights – Artist Running An Election, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
 
2010
Reproduction of Reproduction, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2009
Not Fine Art, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2008
Shanghai Tan - Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Galleria dell'Arco, Shanghai
Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Vienna Fair, Vienna
Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing
Paintings, Videos and Photography by CHOW Chun Fai, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2005
Significance Form: Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, Grotto Fine art, Hong Kong
 
2004
Paintings by CHOW Chun Fai, State of Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2003
Painting, Grass, Ceiling—Paintings by Chow Chun-Fai, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2022
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2021
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2019
Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2015
Venice Meeting Point, Arsenale Venice
The Past Continuing, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
 
2014
All Are Guests - Homecoming, Hong Kong Museum of Art
Light And Shadows- Caravaggio- The Italian Baroque Master, Asia Society, Hong Kong
This Slow‧That Fast: Animamix Biennale, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
 
2013
Art Basel Hong Kong
 
2012
Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
 
2011
Chongqing Biennale for Young Artists, Chongqing Art Museum/ Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
 
2010
Legacy and Creations-Art vs Art, MOCA, Shanghai
Installation and Sculpture about FungShui, Wooferten, Hong Kong
Butterfly Effect, He Xiang Ning Art Museum, China
 
2009
VIENNAFAIR, Vienna
Art Brussels, Traversee Gallery
Second Skin, Osage Gallery, Singapore
Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art
 
2008
Effetto Stalker#2, Galleria dell'Arco, Palermo, Italy
Beautiful Journey Beautiful World, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
 
2007
The Pivotal Decade: Hong Kong Art, Manchester UK
China’s Next Wave, Munich, Germany
Reversing Horizons, MOCA, Shanghai
Inside Looking Out, Osage Hong Kong and Osage Beijing
 
2006
Beyond Foreordination-Contemporary Photography Exhibition, 798, Beijing
 
2005
YCCA - Yong Chinese Contemporary Art, HangART-7, Austria
 
2003
Matrix Inside Out: Paintings by AU Hoi Lam & CHOW Chun Fai, Grotto Fine art, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003, Hong Kong Museum of Art
 
2001
Joint Funeral of Chow & Kwan, 1a space, Hong Kong
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