Renowned scenographer and singing bowl artist based in Hong Kong, Tsang Man-Tung has designed over 200 works, received numerous local and international awards including Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up & Image Design, and Award for Best Artist (Theatre) (2007/08) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. In 2009, Tsang received Huang He Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council which allows him to visit Yale University School of Drama as a special research fellow in 2010. He […]
John Tain is Head of Research at Asia Art Archive. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Art Review Asia and elsewhere, and he is an editor for Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series. Previously, he was a curator at the Getty Research Institute, where he curated an exhibition for Pacific Standard Time. In 2018, he co-curated Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicagoas part of Art Design Chicago initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Leung Mee Ping, born in Hong Kong. She received her BFA from L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France, MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA and PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Religious & Cultural Studies Department). Currently, she is Professor and Director of Centre for Research and Development in Visual Arts at The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. She believes creativity originates from the daily culture which provides a […]
Professor Lui Tai-Lok is the Vice President (Research and Development), Chair Professor of Hong Kong Studies, Director of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies and Director of the Centre for Greater China Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. Professor Lui has widely researched and published in topics including class analysis, economic sociology, urban sociology and Hong Kong society. He also actively contributes to the Hong Kong community by serving on various committees in governmental and professional bodies as […]
Dr Vivian Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Her work on film studies and heritage studies has been published in academic journals and collected volumes including Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas and International Journal of Heritage Studies. She is the author of Hong Kong Cinema since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination and The Other […]
Pun Ngai is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD from SOAS, University of London. She was honored as the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for her first book Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005), which has been translated into French and Chinese. Her co-authored book, Dying for iPhone: Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020) has also been translated into German, French, Italian, […]
Hon Lai Chu is the author of the short story collections Darkness under the Sun and Homecoming, and novels such as Body Seam, Empty Face, Lost Caves, The Border of Centrifugation, Body-sewing, Grey Flower, Kite Family, The Water Pipe Forest, Silent Creature and Hard Copies. Her novel Kite Family was one of the 2008’s Books of the Year by China Times in Taiwan, selected as Top 10 Chinese Novels World-wide for the year 2008 and 2009 respectively, and won the […]
Anthony Aziz (b. Massachusetts) Sammy Cucher (b. Lima, Peru) Aziz + Cucher have been a collaborative team since 1991, after meeting as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. They are now members of the Fine Arts faculty at Parsons School of Design (New York) and based in Brooklyn. Their interdisciplinary work is project-based and idea-driven, with outcomes ranging from video and photography to printmaking, digital animation, sculpture and large-scale jacquard tapestries. The images, objects and installations they produce […]
Benny Leung initiated studio-m as an independent design studio that specialises in creative consultation, visual branding, typography design, art direction and graphic design. He has won a number of design awards, including iF Design Award, One Show Design Awards, The ADC Awards, New York TDC Awards, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, HKDA Global Design Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards. His work was also selected in Asia Graphic Design Triennale in Korea, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Golden Bee Moscow Global […]
Morgan Wong’s artistic practice unfolds his contemplation on time. Transcending a personal perceptual approach, his concerns are expanded to aspects like social-political issues or scientific notions in temporality. His selected solo exhibitions include: Time Isn’t Our Border (Goethe Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2019), Our Feet Are Always Younger than Our Heads (Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, 2018), Mean Time (Centre A, Vancouver, 2016), The Dashes; The Laughter; The Reservoirs (Asia Art Center Taipei II, Taipei, 2016), Filing Down a […]