Yim Sui Fong
Yim Sui Fong is a multi-disciplinary artist, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of the artist-run organisation Rooftop Institute and a member of the Hong Kong artists’ collective, L sub. Yim Sui Fong’s artistic practice focuses on the actiontable aspects behind image creation, pursuing questions such as how we re-read history and how we could connect communities through artistic action. She often uses methods of visual documentation to intervene in real-life texts; through anecdotes, she reveals relationships between people, objects and geography which are overlooked by history. By combining interviews and reference documents, she creates semi-fictional and semi-realistic audio-visual narratives through videos and installations. In the process, revealing realities through illusions. Her works are inspired by three recurrent themes: performativity, images and the study of sounds. She explores various forms of uneasiness people face in society and examines the relationship between individuality and collectivity. Through artistic action and workshops, she provides a platform to connect collective consciousness, while refracting the perplexity and imagination of social phenomena.
She was recently awarded the WMA Masters Award 2017/18 and finalist of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2017. Her book project ‘The man who attends to the times’, commissioned by Oi!, Hong Kong (2018). Recent exhibition includes: ‘Artists’ Film International’, Whitechapel Gallery (2019), ‘Hic Sunt Leons’, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China (2019), ‘The Wall 2019’, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong (2019), ‘Talkover/Handover 2.0’, 1 a Space, Hong Kong (2017), ‘Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan’, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2016), L sub is the selected artist group to present in Hong Kong House at Echigo-Tsumari in Japan in 2020.
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嚴瑞芳，跨媒介藝術家，畢業於香港中文大學藝術碩士。她是藝術家營運的非牟利機構天台塾聯合創辦人，以及藝術家組織 L sub 的成員。嚴瑞芳的藝術實踐，著力於影像創作背後的行動性，包括如何重讀歷史、如何透過藝術行動聯結社群。她經常以一種視覺記錄的方式去介入現實文本，從逸聞、軼事去揭示歷史所未及的人、物質與地域的關係。結合訪問及文獻參考，以影像和錄像裝置創作半虛構半真實的視聽敘事體，以虛幻揭示現實。她的作品又啟發自對聲音、影像和展演的研究，成為作品中的關鍵聯想元素；她探討人於社會各種不安的情況，並思考個體與集體性的關係，從而透過藝術行動或工作坊，提供連結眾人感知的平台和折射對社會現象的疑惑和想像。
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Education
2011 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2006 Degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Awards
2018 WMA Masters Award 2017/18, WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong
2017 Finalist of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2017, Justice Centre Hong Kong
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Solo Exhibitions / Project
2019 A Room of Resistance, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2018 The man who attends to the times, project supported by Oi!, Hong Kong
2016 Everything seems the hint when you get lost, Muriwai Earthskin Residency, Auckland, New Zealand
2011 a story about collecting stories, Cheng Ming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2005 Wandering Channel, Bridge Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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Selected Group Exhibition / Art Project
2021 Otherworlds: non/digital realities, Gillman Barracks, Singapore Art Week, Singapore link
2020 Hong Kong House at Echigo-Tsumari, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan link
2020 Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona Art Gallery, Sweden link
2020 Crossing Border Festival, JCCAC 3/F 4/F common space, Hong Kong
2019 The Situation of Learning, Our Gallery, Hong Kong link
2019 Momentary Glimpses: An Anthology on Contentedness, publication project by Folium, edited by JJ Chan
2019 Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom link
2019 Only Connect Osaka, Creative Center Osaka link
2019 The Wall, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
2019 hic sunt leones, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
2019 Gallery Week Beijing 2019 “Emerging Artist Series”, Beijing 798 Art Centre, China link
2019 hic sunt leones, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China link
2019 River Without Buoys 1979, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China link
2018 WMA Masters Award 2017/18- Transition, Gallery of Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong link
2018 Artists’ Film International Part III 2018, organized by Whitechapel Gallery, screening at Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden link
2018 coming soon, curated by Lara van Meeteren and Bart Wissink, Bangkok Biennial, Thailand link
2017 Talkover/Handover 2.0, 1 a Space, Hong Kong
2017 Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize Exhibition 2017, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 CUHK Fine Arts Department 60th Anniversary Feature Exhibition, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
2017 Koki Tanaka’s Precarious Tasks #9: 24hrs Gathering (Timeline), Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
2017 Decongestants for West-Kowloonization: On Fire, Conceptual Art Actions and Documentation Exhibition, C&G Apartment, Hong Kong
2017 Here, Casphalt, Hong Kong
2016 Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2015 HACK, Before・After, Oil Street Art Space , Hong Kong
2015 Jiang Ling – An Artistic and Humanistic Practice with On-site Interpretation and Regeneration, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Wuhan, China
2015 what unimaginable forms, Comix Home Base, Hong Kong
2014 Tales from the Taiping Era, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China (L+: Pak Sheung Chuen + Yim Sui Fong)
2014 Disappearing Photography Tour (L+: Pak Sheung Chuen, Wo Man Yee, Lee Soen Long and Yim Sui Fong)
-Hong Kong New Territories session: September 9, 2014 (Organizer: Hong Kong Commercial Radio Project)
-Japan -Fukushima session: September 9, 2014 (Organizer: Arafudo Art Annual 2014)
-Taiwan Taipei sessions: December 26, December 17, December 20, 2014
(exhibition: “Here is where we meet – an exhibition on participatory art”, organizer: Museum of Contemporary Art,Taipei)
2011 Reincarnating II – The Future Teller, Wan Chai Visual Archive, Hong Kong
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Award / Grant
2019 HKADC Delegation in Venice Biennale 2019, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2018 WMA Masters Award 2017/18, WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong link
2018 Emerging Artists Scheme, Hong Kong Art Development Council link
2017 Finalist of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2017, Justice Centre Hong Kong link
2016 HKADC Delegation in Gwangju Biennale 2016, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2016 Grantee, Prof. Maiching Kao Fine Arts Fund
2016 Muriwai Earthskin Creative Residency Scholarship
2006-2007 Philippe Charriol Foundation Biennial Art Competition Finalist
2006 PASCA Fellowship, Annie Wong Art Foundation
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Residency / Exchange
2016 Muriwai Earthskin Residency, New Zealand link
2006 PASCA, Pont Aven, France link
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Curated show
2018-2019 Our Everyday, Our Border, co-curated with Law Yuk-mui and Frank Vigneron, presented by Rooftop Institute,
organized by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong link
2016 Neptune Terrance, co-curated with Inti Guerrero, Neptune, Chai Wan, Hong Kong link
2014 First But Not Least– a joint exhibition showcases the first piece of work defined by the selected contemporary Chinese artists,
Kong Contemporary Art Agency(KCAA), Beijing, China
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Guest Lectures, Artist’s Talk, Jury, Event
2020 The Man Who Attends to the Times: A Performative Reading by Yim Sui Fong, organized by Emily Verla Bovino
2019 Invited artist for teacher retreat camp, organized by Asia Art Archive link
2019 Jury of WMA Open 2019, organized by WYNG Foundation
2019 Jury of Vitamin Award, jointly organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Fine Arts Department,
Academy of Visual Art Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Art School
2019 Guest Speaker, WMA-Open, Transition, WYNG Foundation
2019 Guest Speaker, A Socially Engaged Art Proposal, organised by Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong
2018 Guest Speaker, Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018, organised by Green Papaya Art Projects and 98B COLLABoratory, Philippines link
2018 Jury of WMA Open Photo Contest 2018, organized by WYNG Foundation link
2018 Guest Speaker, Art After Hour : : "Our Everyday - Our Borders” Artists’ Talk, organised by Tai Kwun Contemporary link
2018 Guest Speaker, Listen Up?! thematic symposium : Grouping & Forming Party, organised by 1a space, Hong Kong, link
2018 Guest Speaker, Performance = action x art ?, organized by The Art of CUHK, Hong Kong link
2018 Guest Speaker, Hok Hok Zaap, The Chinese Foundation Secondary School
2018 Guest Speaker, From [Vanishing] to [Creation] : A Dialogue about Urban Transition, public programme organized by WYNG Foundation
2017 Guest Speaker, Talkover/Handover 2.0 Roundtable discussion, 1a space link
2015 Guest Speaker, Fresh Trend Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, organized by Hong Kong Art Network, Hong Kong
2014 Artist’s talk, Art in Action, organized by Meridian Space, Beijing, China
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Publication
2019 Momentary Glimpses: An Anthology on Contentedness, publication project by Folium, edited by JJ Chan
2018 The man who attends to the times, supported by Oi!
2009 Planning and Research, Made in Shek Kip Mei, exhibition and research catalogue, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2005-2009, 2015-now a contributor for the feature column at local newspaper Sunday Ming Pao.
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Collection
Private collection, Allen & Overy