Ivy MA King Chu 馬琼珠
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BIOGRAPHY Ivy Ma King Chu Born in 1973, Hong Kong Ivy MA King Chu received her MA in 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. She was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2007 and received the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards, Young Artist Award in 2012. 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. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Bird of Shape' (The 10th Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, 2024), 'Ascending and Descending' (Galerie J/, Paris, 2024), 'Poems, days, death' (Lumenvisum, Hong Kong, 2020), 'As Time Folds' (Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong, 2018), and 'Last Year' (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2015). Recent group exhibitions include 'Crossing' (gdm, Hong Kong, 2025), 'Alternative Time: Traversing through Mobility' (Mooroom, Hong Kong), 'So and So Private Collection' (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2018), 'Ferry' (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018), 'Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition' (Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 2006), and 'Curiosities' (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2005). Ma's works are part of the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. HIGHLIGHT 2020 The Space Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2018 The Crossing, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2016 Art Basel HK 2016, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2015 Last Year, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2012 Numbers Standing Still, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2011 Gazes, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 Bird of Shape, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen Ascending and Descending, Galerie J/, Paris 2021 Think Of Wind, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong 2020 Poems, days, death, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong 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 2007 Perhaps Solitude, Fotan Studio Open Day 2007, Hong Kong 2001 Nothing At All, The Art School Learning Centre Galleries, Hong Kong GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 Crossing, gdm, Hong Kong 2024 Alternative Time: Traversing through Mobility, Mooroom, Hong Kong Bird of Shape - A Non-Solo of Ivy Ma, in association with Carol Chow, Man Mei To, and June Wong, Tangent Projects, Barcelona Closer Together, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2023 Closer Together, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Flower·Mother – A Conversation Exhibition between Ivy Ma and Stephen Lam, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong 2022 Under·Line, Tangent Projects, Barcelona Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania When Will I See You Again?, SC Gallery, Hong Kong 31 Women Artists – Hong Kong, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Under·Line, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim 2021 Residual Heat, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong Future of the Past, Contemporary By Angela Li, Hong Kong 2020 Drawing as the Core, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong The spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2019 By the Window, 1a space, Hong Kong 2018 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 2017, 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 Hong Kong 2016, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2015 Ceramics Show by Non-ceramics Artists, 1a space, Hong Kong 2013 Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Painting On and On: Intertextuality, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2012 Running on the Sidelines - Hong Kong New Media Art Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taip 2011 Rediscover Photography, China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2011, Pingyao 2010 Exhibiting Experiments. Experimenting Exhibitions, Wrong Place, JCCAC, Hong Kong City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong 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, Hong Kong 2006 Between the Observer and the Observed, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou Second Skin, 3 Boxes, Hong Kong Media Art Show, Vasl International Artists' Collective, Pakistan Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 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, Leeds 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, Hong Kong 2007 Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong 2001-2002 Hong Kong Arts Development Council – FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship, Hong Kong ART RESIDENCY 2008 Location One, New York City, USA The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2007 The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence, Kökar, Åland PUBLICATION 2012 Ivy Ma: This Room is not Still, Gallery EXIT RELATED ARTICLES
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