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Audio installation, Engraving on plexiglas, Printed sheet music Duration: 18’30”. Installation view at TENT Rotterdam
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Audio installation, Engraving on plexiglas, Printed sheet music Duration: 18’30”. Installation view at TENT Rotterdam
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Live Performance 28'00". During a live performance the original voice recordings are played back in a speaker system while the musician follows the notation as closely as possible in unison or in chord variations.$To perform this uncanny piece of musical score the musician will have to summon all precision from his musical practice, while he will have to put these trained abilities in an invisible power beyond recognisable human control.
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Research material board, stamp station. Installation view at TENT Rotterdam
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Limited Prints Edition as Artist-Publication Box Set Tailor-made box in collaboration with BOOX.SPACE, Haarlem, The Netherlands The certificate of authenticity is silkscreen printed on Simili Japon paper. Edition of 5 with 2 A.P. Signed and Numbered.
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Solo exhibition installation view at SinArts Gallery The Hague
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Detail view at SinArts Gallery, The Hague
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Detail view at SinArts Gallery, The Hague
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Left channel of the duo-channel video work
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Two-channel video in colour, with audio, on loop 12’44” and 13”32
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Two-channel video in colour, with audio, on loop 12’44” and 13”32
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‘There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to’ , TENT, Rotterdam
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Letterpress and polymer photogravure printing on Hahnemühle papers A set of 7 Edition of 5 + 2PP,$ signed, numbered and stamped Paper size : H. 65 x W.$ 50 cm each Display size (folded): 50 x 50 cm each
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Letterpress and polymer photogravure printing on Hahnemühle papers A set of 7 Edition of 5 + 2PP,$ signed, numbered and stamped Paper size : H. 65 x W.$ 50 cm each Display size (folded): 50 x 50 cm each
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Black ink impression rubber stamp Graphic size : H. 7.8 x W. 11.8 cm In 1978, Cha created a rubber-stamp ‘Mot Cache’ for the International Rubber Stamp Design Exhibition, Stempelplaats, in Amsterdam. In 2022, on the occasion of researching and translating Dictee into Nüshu, the artist simultaneously translated the french word and realised an English version of the stamp, which reads ‘hidden word’.
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Installation view at The Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science
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Installation view at The Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science
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Installation view at The Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science
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Research material board, as part of the installation
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Live performance at Museum of Medical Science Hong Kong
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‘There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to’ , TENT, Rotterdam
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As part of Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Contemporary
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As part of Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Contemporary
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As part of Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Contemporary
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Sublimation print on translucent fabric 240 x 150 cm each A set of 2 Two juxtaposed narratives written by two different personal accounts together provide a brief summary of the background story of the protagonist and his publication Jag ritar en dörr på väggen med fingret, at the same time hinting to a diverse understanding and critique that reflect the culture of the two involved nations.
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Polymer letterpress & Lithograph prints 66 x 50 cm each A set of 11 Unique edition
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11 poems written and smuggled from deprivation of liberty, translated into English versions from their original bilingual texts, engraved on 22 press-ready lithographic limestone slabs - !e work captures the impossibilities of clarification, exemplifying the geopolitical power of poetry and translation. In traces of the untranslatable, the text attempts to unveil possible narratives and its implications behind the regime-critical publishing activities and the process of poetry-writing of the protagonist Gui Minhai.
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Audio Installation, Text (site speci"c installation on existing lighting structures) 15’00
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Lecture Performance, 4 channel audio tracks, video projection 40’00” Trust and Confusion, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
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Songs of Ambivalence explores the technology for sound reproduction and addresses the contradictory nature of the human voice and the power of the human voice to defy any conventional categories of truth and falsity, past and present, man and woman.
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(I Draw A Door On The Wall With My Finger)
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Rolling Stone (Happy Sisyphus)
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Photogravure printing on Arches artist papers Edition of 3 + 1 AP, signed and numbered Paper size : 27 x 36 cm Image size : 12 x 8 cm
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Websites
personal website
www.szelokserene.comSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2019 - 2021MA Artistic Research Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
exhibitions
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2025The Utopia of Rules Singapore Art Week 2025 Singapore, Singapore Group
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2025(TBA) Kunsthal Mechelen Mechelen, Belgium Group
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2024Bad Romance: Affective Body with its misapprehension and rumours Waley Art Centre Taipei, Taiwan Group
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2024BOOKED : Hong Kong Art Book Fair Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2024Cantando Bajito: Incantations Ford Foundation Gallery New York, United States Group
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2024ricatives, Mute and Fugue - A Prelude puntWG Amsterdam Solo
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2023Sounds Like Print Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2023Sound Forms 2023 Co-Presented by Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong & Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duo
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2023MMCA Residency Changdong Report 2023 : My Name Is MMCA changdong Seoul, Democratic People's Republic of Korea Group
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2023What Kinds Of Times Are These, When To Talk About Trees Is Almost A Crime SinArts Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands Solo
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2022La Quinta Stagione - II Edizione Genova, Italy Group
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2022There Is No Party So Noisy As The One That You Are Not Invited To TENT Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2022Post-Human Narratives : In The Name of Scientific Witchery exhibition organised by Para Site, at Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2022CreAct ‒ The Limits of the Artist Book Huis van het Boek Den Haag, Netherlands Group
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2021Non-academic lecture: Silverfish - Parasitic Guest/Host by Serene Hui Para Site Hong Kong, Hong Kong Solo
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2021Songs of Ambivalence - Lecture Performance by Serene Hui Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong Solo
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2021Rooftop Studio & Archive Project Para Site Hong Kong, Hong Kong Solo
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2021Post-Human Narratives - The Co-existing Land Cattle Depot Artist Village Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2021Post-Human Narratives - We, The Searchers v.2.0 online, Hong Kong posthumannarratives.com/exhibition/archive/serene Solo
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2021Non Native Native Fair online, Netherlands Group
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2021Trust & Confusion Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Curators: Xue Tan, Raimundas Malašauskas Group
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2021Sun Kissed // Fog Off Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives Den Haag, Netherlands Group
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2021This Year There Were Very Few Fireworks (Silent Fire/Works Rhapsody De Aanschouw Rotterdam Curated by Mimi Von Moos Solo
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2021Rooftop Studio & Archive Project Para Site Hong Kong, Hong Kong Solo
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2020We, The Searchers Page Not Found Den Haag, Netherlands Solo presentation at Page Not Found as part of the programme The Ongoing Conversation #7 by Gallery 1646 Solo
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20203331 Art Fair Tokyo 3331 Arts Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan Group
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2020A Simple Fizz Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives Den Haag, Netherlands Group
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2019FOLKLORE Bedroom (Independent Artspace) Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2018Words Unsaid, Then Forgotten 3331 Arts Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan Solo
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2018A Song A Zine, dotdotdot Zine launch Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2018Nearly There Arts 3331 Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan Group
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2018無何有之香 - 文學x視藝展覽 (Exhibition of literature x visual arts) Hong Kong House of Literature Hong Kong, Hong Kong Commission work by Hong Kong House of Literature, in collaboration with poet Chan Fai-Kin. Group
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2018WHY PRINT : Biennial Printmaking Exhibition curated by Marble Print Clay Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2017Everyday is just another day - Exhibition of HUI Serene Sze Lok Venice Art Projects Venice, Italy Solo
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2017Time, Space & Architecture Cityscapes Foundation Amsterdam, Hong Kong Group
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2017Travelling between Time and Matter G126 Rotterdam, Netherlands Duo
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2017Hold Your Breath, Feel the Time Stichting Kaus Australis Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2017The Factory 2017 The Factory, Djúpaviík Djúpaviík, Iceland Group
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2017Dimension Convertor - Exhibition by Serene Hui and Bobby Yu 100 ft. PARK Hong Kong , Hong Kong Duo
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2017Here is Zine, Here is Hong Kong PMQ Hong Kong, Hong Kong Group
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2016The White Night Laboratory Listhus Artspace Olafsfjordur, Iceland Solo
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2016Waiting for the Polar Express ‒ HUI Sze Lok Serene Solo Exhibition PMQ Hong Kong, Hong Kong Solo
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2016Lights in the Old Phone Booths Kaffi Klara Olafsfjordur, Iceland Solo
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2016THE PLAYROOM : Works by Ng Shuk Yin & Hui Sze Lok Serene PMQ Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duo
International exchanges/Residencies
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2024Frans Masereel Centrum Kasterlee, Belgium
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2024Casino Display - Space for Artistic Research, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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2024AirWG Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2023National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea Seoul, Republic of Korea MMCA International Artist/Researcher Residency Program
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2022Zurich University of the Arts Zurich, Switzerland Performative Interventions, Research Academy 2022
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2021Para Site Hong Kong Hong Kong Rooftop Studio & Archive Project
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2021Nida Art Colony Nida, Lithuania
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20183331 Arts Chiyoda/Akiba Tamabi 21, Tokyo, JP Tokyo, Japan
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2017Stichting Kaus Australis Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2016Listhus Artspace Olafsfjordur, Iceland
Commissions
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2023Psyche/ Sleepy Transformation Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong Sound Forms 2023
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2021Rehearsal for Disaster (series) : The Explosion, The Siren Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Trust & Confusion, curated by Xue Tan and Raimundas Malašauskas. www.trusting.hk finished
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2018The Chamber (Installation work) Hong Kong House of Literature Hong Kong, Hong Kong finished
Sales/Works in collections
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2024Print Edition Frans Masereel Centrum België
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2023KB Nationale Bibliotheek Nederland
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2023Huis van het boek Nederland
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2023Print Edition Private Collection Nederland
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2022Print Edition Private Collection Hongkong
Publications
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2024Correspondence Book Independent publishing Serene Hui & Simo Tse Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2023Siren - as part of Scold, Gossip and Siren Book Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong Artist publication and music score book
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2022Today’s Archive is (Not) Tomorrow’s History Catalog Para Site Serene Hui Hong Kong
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2021May We Live In Interesting Times - The Politics and Poetics of Ambivalence Book Serene Hui Den Haag, Netherlands szelokserene.com/May-We-Live-In-Interesting-Times Independent publishing; Artist Book; Text in English; 1st Edition of 30, 2nd Edition of 25; 140 pages
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2021The Invisibilsts Catalog Master Artistic Research, KABK Den Haag, Netherlands Guest curator: Delphine Bedel. This collective publication is a set of 10 A2 posters.
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2020We, The Searchers Catalog Serene Hui Den Haag, Netherlands Independent publishing; Artist Book; 36 pages; full 4c on matt paper; Staple bound; 11 x 14 cm; Edition of 20
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2020WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE MARKS OF ERASURE ON A SOCIETY IN CRISIS? Amsterdam Alternative Serene Hui Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Alternative Issue #030 : May - June 2020,
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2018A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ME AND MY GHOST / WORDS UNSAID, THEN FORGOTTEN Book Serene Hui / The Ghost Hong Kong, Hong Kong Independent publishing; Artist Book; Text in English & Chinese; Letterpress printing on all texts; Indigo Print; Printed by : Small Tune Press (HK)
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2017Hello, Darkness my old friend Book Serene Hui Hong Kong, Hong Kong Independent publishing; Artist Book; Printed by : Studio Ink'chacha; Hand-stitched and bound
reviews
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2022Up and Coming : Serene Hui Sze Lok Magazine City Magazine Hong Kong
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2022Up Close : Serene Hui Sze Lok Magazine Art Asia Pacific Hong Kong
Awards and grants
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2024Artist Project Grant (Kunstenaar Project) Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2024Cultural Exchange Grant (2024 Spring) Hong Kong Art Development Council Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2024Cultural Exchange Grant (2024 Winter) Hong Kong Art Development Council Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2023Cultural Exchange Grant (2023 Winter) Hong Kong Art Development Council Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2023SPOT Individual Exhibition Grant (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands
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2023Artist Grant Basic Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands Netherlands
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2022Pro Invest Grant (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands
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2021Fonds kwadraat Netherlands
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2018Cultural Exchange Fund Hong Kong Art Development Council Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2017Arts Development Fund Home Affairs Bureau Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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2017Professor Mayching Kao Fine Arts Fund - Artist-in-residence Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Secondary art-related activities
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2022 - --Performative & Experiential Translation : Meaning-Making through Language, Art and Media Conference, King’s College London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council - Guest Artist/ Public Presentation
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2022 - --CLE 2022: DWELLING Symposium, Cultural Literacy Everywhere and University College Dublin - Guest Artist/ Workshop
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2021 - --After Hope Symposium, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco - Guest Speaker/ Panel Discussion
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2018 - 2019Happy Hippo Studio (Curator & Founder)
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2018 - 2018Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Jockey Club Arts Education Programme - In Dialogue with Sculptures (Guest Artist Tutor)
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2017 - 2019Galerie Perrotin (Assistant to Director | Gallery Assistant, Sales & Artist Liaison)