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Tobe KAN 簡喬倩


​BIOGRAPHY
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Tobe KAN
Born in 1984, Hong Kong
 
Tobe KAN was born in 1984 and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art degree co-presented by RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School in 2017. In recent years, she has focused on observing the variety of vegetation that naturally coexists with human beings as she strolls. Her current artistic practice explores themes of liminality and impermanence, examining feelings of insecurity, alienation, and being forgotten. She also delves into concepts of existence, distance, and identity. Her work aims to reveal the uncanny and mysterious feelings of hovering between asleep and awake, dream and reality. She experiments with painting, drawing, and installation. She has exhibited her works in Hong Kong, Dallas USA, Taipei, Seoul, and Cambridge UK, and her works have been included in numerous collections.
 
Her solo exhibitions include 'Stillness in Quietude - A Studio showcase by Tobe Kan' (Robinson College Chapel, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2023) and 'Peck-eyes Ravens' (CL3 Architects, Hong Kong 2018). She participated in solo exhibitions organised by Augustus Gallery include 'Zygomorphic Chromatic' (Dallas, 2023) and 'of war, of love, of time' (Dallas, 2022). Other solo exhibitions organised by Gallery EXIT include 'Liminal Interval' (Hong Kong, 2023), 'The Panacea' (Hong Kong, 2021). Her participation in group exhibitions includes ‘Frieze Seoul 2024’ (Gallery EXIT, Seoul, 2024) 'The Collectors Choice Art Exhibition' (Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2023), 'The Unsung' (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2021), and 'TAKE 1' (Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019), among others. Kan took part in an artist residency program at the Robinson College of University of Cambridge in 2023, and a couple of the paintings she created during the residency are part of the College’s collection.
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​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
Stillness in Quietude - A Studio showcase by Tobe Kan, Robinson College Chapel, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Zygomorphic Chromatic, Peter Augustus Gallery, Dallas
Liminal Interval, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2022
of war, of love, of time, Peter Augustus Gallery, Dallas

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, Hong Kong​


GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2025
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

​2024
Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2024, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
West Bund Art & Design 2024, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
Art Taipei 2024, Asia Art Center, Taipei
Frieze Seoul 2024, Gallery EXIT, Seoul
The Present, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Taipei Dangdai 2024, Gallery EXIT, Taipei
Painted in Hong Kong, Enlighten Gallery, Taipei
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2023
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery EXIT, Shanghai
Collectible Art Fair, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
The Labyrinth of Solitude, Seefood Room, Hong Kong
Botanical Wonders, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Confluence Of Voices, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Dallas Art Fair 2023, Peter Augustus Gallery, Dallas
The Collectors Choice Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023, 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 2022, Peter Augustus Gallery, Dallas
The Sunshine Is Still There, SC Gallery, Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 
2021
+1, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
So I say, “It’s a landscape painting.”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
The Unsung, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
 
2020
Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel, 1a space, Hong Kong
‘In the course of Dancing, from Nightfall to Darkness’, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
 
2019
TAKE 1 • Group Exhibition of Hong Kong Young Artists, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong
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, Hong Kong
PROCESSING : on reading art, Hong Kong Arts Centre

2017
Deep Silence, HKAS Alumni Network exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong
NEXT+, Art Next Expo, PMQ, Hong Kong
HKFOREWORD17, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Artist Residency
2023  
Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
 
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2017
Fresh Trend Art Award, Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition, Hong Kong

​2016 / 2017
Scholarship, Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship, Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
Scholarship, Talent Development, Education Bureau, Hong Kong
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