CV

EDUCATION
Class of ——- 2013
M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts
Graduate School, Duke University

2007
B.A. (Hons) in Creative Media with 1st Class Honours
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
FELLOWSHIP/ GRANT
2022 1a Space – 1st edition of the Mid-Career Artist Exhibition and Publication Series
2021 ARTKOMMUNALKA – International Grant in Visual Art and Literature
2020 Para Site Hong Kong – NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour
2015/16 Asian Cultural Council – Jackie Chan Foundation Fellowship
COLLECTION
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
COMMISSION
2023 M+, Hong Kong
2022 Jumping Frames, Hong Kong
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY
2024 BJÖRKÖ KONSTNOD – BKN, Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
2023 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder – LKV, Trondheim, Norway
2022 Serlachius Residency, Mänttä, Finland
2021 Koganecho Artist In Residency (remote), Yokohama, Japan
ARE – Artist Residencies Enschede, Enschede, Netherlands
[rescheduled due to pandemic] Kolomna Museum Residency, Kolomna, Russia
[rescheduled due to pandemic] TUO TUO’s Kulttuuri Tila & Residency, Joutsa, Finland
2020 Ateljé Stundars, Solf, Finland
2018 Aomori Contemporary Art Centre‘s AIR, Aomori, Japan
Cill Rialaig Residency
, Bolus Head, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2017 Bullock Lane Studio Residency, Cavan Town, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Interface Residency Program, Recess, Co. Galway, Ireland
4th JustMAD’s Residency, Avilés, Spain
2016 Falland II Residency, Oppland, Norway
AiR Tranås, Tranås, Sweden
Asahi AIR, Nagano, Japan
2015 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 
Serlachius Residency, Mänttä, Finland
Listhús í Fjallabyggð, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2014 Reitir, Siglufjörður, Iceland
Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
The Weight of Mountains, Nes Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2013 The Arctic Circle, international territory of Svalbard
Duke Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA
2012 Art & Science at the Moment of Discovery aboard R/V ATLANTIS, Caribbean Sea & Atlantic Ocean
2011 Arteles Residency Program, Haukijarvi, Finland
SCREENINGS
2024 22nd South Taiwan Film Festival, Tainan City, Taiwan
Light Matter Experimental Film and Media Art Festival, Alfred, NY, USA
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
LAYARAMBHA – Indonesia Bertutur, Bali, Indonesia
2023 EXiM – Macau Experimental Video Festival, Macau
2022 Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Jumping Frames International Movement-image Festival, Hong Kong
2020 1st Fifth Wall Festival, The Philippines
2018 NoiseFloor Festival, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
2016 MONO NO AWARE X, New York City, USA
Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Paratissima, Torino, Italy
Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Listasumar á Akureyri / Summer Arts Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
LA SEMAINE FLOUE 2ÈME ÉDITION > VOIR AU TRAVERS, Paris, France
Experiments in Cinema v11.4, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
19th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2015 34th Uppsala Intl. Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
KLEX Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, Malaysia
7th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
EXiM 2015 – Hong Kong Experimental Video Festival in Macao, Macao
15th Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
CHANNELS – The Australian Video Art Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Northern Wave International Film Festival, Grundarfjörður, Iceland
20th Split Film Festival – MFNF, Split, Croatia
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan
17th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Projection Room at The Unstitute, UK
28th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
15th Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, USA
10th FILMIDEO, Newark, New Jersey, USA
artvideoKOELN, Cologne, Germany
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Freiburg Film Forum, Freiburg, Germany
Level Note one two, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Festival Miden Special Screening, Kalamata, Greece
1st Quarantine Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
ProxyACT International Short Film Festival, London, UK
AVI Festival, Netanya, Israel
Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
KARST Artist Film Screenings, Plymouth, UK
Listhús Gallery, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2014 MEMEFEST, Melbourne, Australia
6th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
Reitir, Siglufjörður, Iceland
Fabrica Utopia, Andros Island, Greece
Art Wall, Athens, Greece
16th Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany
27th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Photographic Center Peri, Turku, Finland
The Weight of Mountains Film Festival, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Bíó Paradís, Reykjavík, Iceland
Gśtto House, Saušįrkrókur, Iceland
INVISIBLECITY Magazine Issue 08 HABITAT
2013 Espacio Enter, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canarias, Spain
Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
SIMULTAN Festival, Timisoara, Romania
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Northern Wave International Film Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
LA Film Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Cutting Room at Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, UK
5th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
OK. Video “MUSLIHAT” 6th Indonesia International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
AHOI International Student Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
6th VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
CologneOFF IX 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival, Cologne, Germany
9th Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
4th Walthamstow International Film Festival, London, UK
8th Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Experiments in Cinema Festival v8.53, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
What The Festival, Alfred, New York, USA
8th FILMIDEO, Newark, New Jersey, USA
19th REGENSBURG Short Film Week, Regensburg,Germany
The Indie Fest (Award for Merit), La Jolla, California, USA
2012 VAFA – Video Art For All, Macau
Student Experimental Film Festival, Binghamton, New York, USA
Film in the House of the Word vol. 1, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2011 Video as Writing Machines, WRITING MACHINE COLLECTIVE edition 4, Hong Kong
2010 22nd Edition of AGUILAR DE CAMPOO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Spain
VAFA – Video Art For All Film Festival, Macau
Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia
17th Sguardi Altrove Film Festival (Homage to China section), Milan, Italy
2009 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (special section: LAB, dedicated to experimental cinema), Belgrade, Serbia
16th Sguardi Altrove Film Festival (Sconfinando Digitalia section), Milan, Italy
2006 Mobile Asia Competition 2006 (Selected runner-up), Seoul, Korea
DMB Channel ‘Blue’, Seoul, Korea
EXHIBITIONS
2024 “BOOGIE(wonder)LAND”, SUPERMARKET ART FAIR, Stockholm, Sweden
“Converging Parallels”, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
2023 “life is elsewhere: you know where to find me”, 1aspace, Hong Kong
2022 “Times Flies Over Us But Leaves Its Shadow Behind”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2021 XPO, Enschede, the Netherlands
Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
Asia Gallery, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2020 “Big Wind Blows”, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2018 “M(O)TION”, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
“Incomplete Nature”, Interface Inagh, Inagh Valley, Co. Galway, Ireland
Townhall Arts Space, Cavan City, Co. Cavan, Ireland
2017 “ensemble”, VTARTSALON, Taipei, Taiwan
“JUST RESIDENCE 2017”, Avilés Asturias, Spain
“JustMAD Contemporary Art Fair”, Madrid, Spain
2016 “Asahi AIR Exhibition”, Shinano-omachi, Nagano, Japan
2015 “Winds of Artist in Residence Part II”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
“away”, Mur Nomade, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Oppland Kunsenter, Lillehammer, Norway
Aleksanterin linnan, Mänttä, Finland
“Skammdegishátíð”, Listhús Gallery, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2014 “The Return of Ghosts”, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
salonvideo_SUBmissions” MAGMA Contemporary Medium,  Sf. Gheorghe, Romania
“Eternal Eye” 2014 International Young Photographer Exhibition, Daegu, South Korea
“The First Encounter, The Beginning of ‘Empty’ Friendship” Exhibition, Incheon, South Korea
NONBIENNALE #02, Web Art Center, http://webartcenter.org
2013 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway City, Ireland
Salon Video, Iasi, Romania
“Not A Drop” at 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK
“Überbleibsel [Leftover]” at konnektor, Hannover, Germany
VIDEOLIXO: Garbage & Trash Culture Film & Video Exhibition, Redondela, Spain
“now what #2” at Microscope Gallery/Running Rebel Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fonlad Digital Arts Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
Athens SlingShot2013, Athens, Georgia, USA
“48 Hours in Las Vegas” Exhibition, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2012 Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective Film Salon I, Leamington Spa, UK
STIGMART.10, Italy
iDMAa iDEAS, Miami, Florida, USA
Duke Arts Festival, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2006 “Connected” Exhibition, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Too Art Gallery (Hong Kong Art Center), “Micro-Narratives: invented time & space” Exhibition, Hong Kong
ARTIST TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2014 Guest Lecture, Creative Media Colloquium, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, HK.
2013

Artist Presentation, Filmmaker-in-residency, Duke Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA.

Conference Presentation, Poetics and Politics of Documentary Film, Research Symposium at Aalto University, ELO Helsinki Film School, Finland.

2012 Conference Panel Discussion, “The Arts & IDEAS”, fast forward 2012: Intl Digital Media & Arts 10th Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, USA.

Conference Presentation, “The queer life choices of the normal heterosexuals: the 2011 inauguration MFAEDA class at Duke University” Queer Paradigms IV international Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2010 Guest Speaker, Class on Love, Sex and Marriage in China, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2009 Lecture and Artist Talk, “Dialogues on the Intersection of Art & Scholarship (II): an introduction to new research methodologies”, Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan.

Guest Speaker, Social Work Forum, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Artist Forum, “Best before 11 Aug 2009 while my 24-years-old is still in progress…”, EXPERIMENTA, Hong Kong.

Conference Presentation, “Life Inventions – Art, Scholarship and Sex”, The 2nd Intl. Conference on Sexualities in China, Beijing, China.

Panel, “Gender Studies and Public Policy in China and Europe”, China-Europa Forum: Paris, France.

Guest Speaker, “Dialogues on the Intersection of Art & Scholarship”, Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

Exhibit, “Reflections on love, sex and marriage: An intergenerational dialogue”, IASSCS VII Conference: Contested Innocence – Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space, Hanoi, Vietnam.

2008 Conference Presentation, “Women at mid-life: The strategies of pleasure of an oddly invisible group”, Kartini Asia Network, Young Asian Women Leadership Forum, Bali, Indonesia. .
ART TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Jan 2012 – May 2013 Duke University – Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Department of Arts of Moving Image; Department of Visual & Media Studies; Department of Theater Studies
– Teaching Assistant
Mar 2010 – Apr 2011 City University of Hong Kong – The School of Creative Media
– Research Assistant
Jan 2008 – Feb 2010 University of Hong Kong – Department of Social Work and Social Administration Department
– Executive Producer, Videographer, Editor in Documentary Productions, Research Assistant
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