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b. 1996, Hong Kong

A mixed-media artist with a focus on video, using satire and comedy to explore
the art ecosytem, and themes that relate to absurdist life in contemporary capitalist societies,
such as the commodification of things and hyper commercialisation. 
I enjoy using sound and music to create humour through audio and visual discord. 

Education
MFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2024-
(supported by the Clarendon Fund Scholarship)
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 2015 - 2019
  Taideyliopiston  Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Arts), Helsinki, 2017  Sep-Dec
Foundation Diploma, City and Guilds of London Art School, 2014-15

Group Exhibitions
Only A Joke Can Save Us
Current Plans (previously named Present Projects), Hong Kong
14 May - 4 July 2021

• Frogs, Pigeons, and Ernest 
OpenHand OpenSpace (571 Oxford Road), Reading
20-23 August 2020

ONE Project Messe 2020
ONE Project, London
24-26 January 2020

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
South London Gallery
6 December - 23 February 2010
Leeds Art Gallery
14 September - 17 November 2019

Haam4 Seoi2 Goeng1 鹹水薑,Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
15 August - 19 August 2019

Set the Borders on Fire!, Exhibition Laboratory Helsinki - 
24 July - 4 August 2019

Slade BA/BFA Degree show 2019, Slade School of Fine Art -
18-23 August 2019

The Sunset Club, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre -
16-20 August 2018
press release & artist’s statements: https://thesunset.club
HK Artion

Small Press Project 2018 - Sound, Slade Research Centre, London - March 2018

Olio, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London - November 2017

• 4Ward 4What, Taskugalleria, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki - November 2017

The Composition Has Been Reversed, UCL Art Museum, London-
26 Sep - 15 Dec 2017
UCL news

8 Over 8, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong - 8-28 August, 2017
artists video interview

Progress: / , Regress, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London – March 2017

•  Performance piece at Cabaret Voltaire (Guild of Artists), as part of Manifesta 11, Zurich –
June 2016 (mention in the Wall Street Journal, ‘The Craziest Reason to visit Zurich’, 31 Aug 2016)

Metamorphosis, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London – March 2016

Indigo Vastness, UCLH Street Gallery, University College Hospital, London – January 2016

• Foundation Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, London – May 2015

• Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London – March 2015 (shortlisted with exhibition)

Screenings
Mascara Film Club: 04, Mascara Bar, London Oct 2019
Perch Arts: Reality Runs Away, Ringrcross Community Centre, London Nov 2019
GoingAway.tv, hosted by Arebyte Gallery, The Wrong Biennale  Online, Nov 2019


Press and articles
Exhibition: Only A Joke Can Save Us at Present Projects
Vast Magazine, 21 September 2021

Recommended: Only A Joke Can Save Us
Timeout Magazine Hong Kong, 4 June 2021

Critic’s Picks - Only A Joke Can Save Us
Ysabelle Cheung, ArtForum, 13 May 2021

Hong Kong Lowdown: Shows to see in 2021
Tessa Moldan, Ocula Magazine, 5 May 2021

Call it what you like. Art as words, spoken and heard
Amelia Crouch, Corridor 8, 21 November 2019

Bloomberg New Contemporaries review: a vintage year for emerging artists,
Laura Cumming, Guardian, 8 December 2019

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Moving Image Art London Blog
31 December 2019

Bloomberg New Contemporaries review: Buzzing with fresh energy
Evening Standard, 3 January 2020

You wonder if? That is a good point. (In French)
&
Georg Baselitz. A Focus on the 80’s (In French)
SensoProjekt, 13 January 2020
written by Isabelle De Visscher-Lemaître

Art prizes and seventy years of New Contemporaries
Martha Barratt, Burlington Contemporary, 21 February 2020

Residencies
UCL Art Museum Residency, March–June 2017
Impilinna residency, Utö island, Finland, December 2017

Publications
UCL Small Press Project 2018 - Sound, sound piece in a limited edition vinyl, March 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019 Catalogue, New Contemporaries 2019
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