Ho Sin Tung

Ho Sin Tung (Chinese: 何倩彤; born 1986) is a visual artist who lives and works in Hong Kong.

Background

Ho was born in Hong Kong, and grew up in Tai Po before moving further north near Lok Ma Chau.^[1] Ho began her artistic training at the age of three when she attended workshops in the studio of Hong Kong painter Gaylord Chan (陳餘生). She graduated with a BFA from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008.^[1] Ho participated in SeMA Mediacity Biennale Seoul (2014) and the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), and received Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2012^[2] – Award for Young Artist and Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012.

Ho’s work is multidisciplinary and cross-media. She uses a variety of texts and materials and weaves impressions of varied objects, stories, movies, as well as personal memories and imaginations into various forms of representations. She may use pencil, graphite and watercolour as art media in combination with found and ready-made images such as stickers, maps, charts, and rubber-stamps to create artwork.^[3] She also creates video art and process-led projects that interpret and extend different narrative frameworks. The cinema is frequent referenced in her work, and literature and film culture are also sources of inspiration.^[3][4][5]

Ho is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong and Chambers Fine Art in New York and Beijing.

Artist residencies

• Living in Creative Fongshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Oct 2016)^[6]
• Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, Vermont, US (Oct – Nov 2013)^[6]
• SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (Jul – Sep 2013)^[6]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2017 – Maybe They Will Die For Us Tomorrow, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
• 2017 – Surfaced, Chambers Fine Art, New York, US^[7][8]
• 2016 – Dusty Landscape, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China^[9]
• 2015 – Icarus Shrugged, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2013 – The Void of Course Monday, Para Site, Art Basel Hong Kong^[10]
• 2012 – Hong Kong Inter-vivos Film Festival, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2011 – You Are Running A Business Called None of My Business, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• 2011 – Folie à deux, Experimenta, Hong Kong
• 2010 – Don’t shoot the messenger, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected group exhibitions

• 2019 – Shek O-Sublime, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
• 2018 – The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany
• 2018 – How To See [What Isn’t There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
• 2018 – Wan Chai Grammatica: Past, Present, Future Tense, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• 2018 – Women in Art: Hong Kong, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2017 – CUHK Fine Arts Department 60th Anniversary Feature Exhibition, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
• 2017 – Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
• 2016 – Living in Creative Fongshan, C9-15 Dayi Area, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 2016 – Animamix Biennale: Space in Mind, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
• 2016 – The (non) Existing Memory of Hong Kong in Literary Text, Comix Home Base, Hong Kong
• 2016 – Next Destination: Hong Kong, Exhibition of William Lim’s Living Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2015 – The Human Body: Measure and Norms, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2015 – A Journey of Innovation, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• 2015 – Polyphony III – Ecological Survey of Chinese Art – Pearl River Delta, Hall 3 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
• 2015 – Here Is Where We Meet, Duddell’s, Hong Kong
• 2015 – After/Image, Studio 52, Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong
• 2015 – Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists' Exhibition, SOHO189 Art Lane / Level 18, Hong Kong
• 2014 – SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
• 2014 – The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 2014 – Animamix Biennale 2013–14: This Slow.That Fast, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 2013 – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• 2013 – Framed: Ai Wei Wei and Hong Kong Artists, Duddell's, Hong Kong
• 2013 – HETEROTOPIA, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
• 2013 – The Floating Eternity, Para Site, Hong Kong
• 2013 – Drawing: Expression and Limit, Hall 2 of Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
• 2013 – The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 – Hong Kong Eye, ArtisTree, Hong Kong
• 2012 – The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• 2012 – Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
• 2012 – The 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
• 2012 – The Repository of Coherent Babbles, Southsite, Hong Kong
• 2012 – CAFAM.FUTURE, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
• 2012 – 'Traits, Ox Warehouse 2nd floor showroom, Macau
• 2012 – Market Force, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
• 2012 – The 17th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong
• 2011 – Octopus, Hanina Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2011 – Urban Utopia: if and only if, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
• 2011 – Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards 2010 Tour Exhibition, Hong Kong / Beijing / Shanghai / Taipei / Paris / Singapore / London
• 2010 – You’re Here, I’m Not., Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
• 2010 – Drawing Out Conversations: Taipei, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2010 – Shifting Topography, Hanart Square, Hong Kong
• 2010 – The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• 2010 – Labium, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
• 2009 – A place changes when we look, agnes b's Librairie Galerie, Hong Kong
• 2009 – Fresh, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
• 2009 – Drawing Out Conversations: Hong Kong Leg, Studio Bibliothèque, Fotan Artists Open Studios 2009, Fotan, Hong Kong
• 2008 – Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected awards

• 2015 – Finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Sovereign Art Foundation
• 2013 – Finalist of Lu Xun Culture Award - Award for Best Artwork, Soho.com and Lu Xun Culture Foundation
• 2012 – Hong Kong Arts Development Award 2012 - Award for Young Artist, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
• 2012 – Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art
• 2010 – Finalist of Societe Generale Chinese Art Awards 2010, Societe Generale
• 2009 – Finalist of Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Museum of Art
• 2008 – Hui Yeung Sing Fine Arts Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2007 – Cheung's Fine Arts Awards, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2006 – Gaylord Chan Painting Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2006 – Lui Lup-fun Creative Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong

References

1. "何倩彤：莫不靜好". Little Post. 23 February 2016.
2. "Hong Kong Art Development Awards – Awardee List 2012".
3. "Ho Sin Tung". Blindspot Gallery. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
4. 梁嘉麗 (6 March 2018). "小說主角為誰而死？ 藝術家何倩彤為文學角色繪製立體隧道書". MP Weekly.
5. "何倩彤 細看他人不願細看的". Ming Pao. 23 March 2016.
6. "English". 何倩彤 Ho Sin Tung. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
7. "Surfaced Ho Sin Tung New York". Chambers Fine Art.
8. Wong, Mimi. "Surfaced: Ho Sin Tung". ArtAsiaPacific.
9. "Dusty Landscape: Ho Sintung Beijing". Chambers Fine Art.
10. "The Void of Course Monday". Para Site.