Hung Keung

BIOGRAPHY

1970  Born in Yunnan, China

1992  Diploma (Design), Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

1995  Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1997  Master of Arts (Film & Video), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK

1997-1998  TV producer (On-Air Promotion) TVBS, London, UK

1998-2005  Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, Hong Kong 

2001  Guest Lecturer, The Department of Interactive Media in Designskolen, Kolding School of Design (DSKD), Kolding, Denmark

2001-2002  Visiting scholar, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

2005  Grantee of Asian Cultural Council Award, Hong Kong

2005-2017  Assistant Professor ([BA] Communication Design), Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, Hong Kong 

2006  Visiting artist, University of California Berkeley, USA

2010  Guest Lecturer ([MFA] Critique of Contemporary Arts), Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

2014  PhD, Zurich University of Arts, Switzerland

2015  Visiting Artist & Scholar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

2017-2024  Associate Professor and MA (VAECP) Programme Leader, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2019  Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada

2022  Visiting Artist & Scholar, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii, USA

2023  Collaborative project with Joseph Chan, Airside, Hong Kong

2024  Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2025  Commissioned by Art Museum of Chinese University of Hong Kong to create a cinematic animation A Ballad 0f Martial Arts for the opening of Lo Kwee Seong Pavilion
 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023-2024

• Hung Keung: Digital Media Art Installation, Alisan Fine Arts-Aberdeen Gallery, Hong Kong

2020

• Hung Keung Solo: Digital Media Art & Bodhisattva, Poland (Postponed due to Covid 19)

2019

• Magic Behind the Moon: Mid-Autumn Lantern Carnivals-Interactive Lighting Installation, Hong Kong Cultural Center Piazza, Hong Kong

• The MOMENT: Outdoor Interactive Guard Booth & Digital G-Glass & LED TV Installation Art, Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, Hong Kong

2015

• Catharsis: Real But Not True, AM Space, Hong Kong
• BCSL Project by Hung Keung, ANU School of Art Main Gallery, Canberra, Australia

2014

• Lui Shou Kwan & HUNG Keung, D3E Art Limited, Hong Kong

2013

• Hong Kong in Visible, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• Dao x Microcosmic Play and Appreciation, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, Hong Kong

2012

• Hung Keung: Dao Gives Birth to One, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

2011

• BCSL Works by HUNG Keung, White Box, University of Oregon, Eugen, Oregon, US
• Where to Come From? Where to Go? Video Works by Hung Keung (Retrospective), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Cinema Pacific and JSMA, Eugene, US

2005

• Interactive Works by Hung Keung, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Inner Glow, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

• Themes and Variations, Alisan Fine Arts-New York Gallery, New York, USA
• Nuit Blanche, Love Park, Toronto, Canada
  
• Word Play New York, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA
  
• Word Play, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
• The Glory of Ink Painting: From Lingnan School of Painting to Greater Bay Area Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Inaugural Project, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

• The Essence, ART+TECH Festival, Milan, Italy

2023

• Digital Art Exhibition, Digital Matter, Lingnan University Arts Festival, M+ Tower, Hong Kong
• PMQ deTour Design Festival, PMQ, Hong Kong
• Digital Dialogues: Exploring the Digital Intersection of Art, Culture, and Nature Hung Keung & Colin H Ives He- Education University of Hong Kong x University of Oregon International Collaborative Exhibition, Cultural and Creative Arts Gallery, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• By the People: Creative Chinese Characters, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• The Art of Creative Research, Exhibition and Seminar, Art Gallery of National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2022-2023

• Inaugural Exhibition: No Boundaries: Reinterpreting Palace Museum Culture, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kong

2022

• Digital Art Fair, Asia Standard Tower, Hong Kong
• Fringe Club 40 Years Exhibition – Calling for Memories & Artworks, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
• Macau Experimental Video Festival (EXiM), Former Municipal Cattle Stable, Macau
• New Rhythm of Line: Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Art, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong 
• 2022 Asia Art Dialogue – China and South Korea Establish Diplomatic Relations 30th Anniversary Special Projects: China15+Korea15: Nature and the Human, Busan, South Korea; Xiamen, China
• ARTique @Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Hall 1, Hong Kong
• Remaking History | ACC@Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Hall 1, Hong Kong
• 32nd Macau Arts Festival: Wild Imagination: Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau from 2000 to 2022, Macau Museum of Art, Macau
• See Words, _________, Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong

2021

• Connecting the Dots, Online Exhibition
• New Vision Arts Festival 2021, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
• InnoCarnival 2021, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong
• SPARK 2021, British Council, UK & HK: Online Exhibition
• POP ROCK An Exhibition About Rocks, Alisan Fine Arts-Central Gallery, Hong Kong
• Nature Therapy, Wan Chai Pierside HarbourChill, Hong Kong
• Video Ensemble [2]021: A Room with A View from Isolation, Online; PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, Hong Kong
• Hkstp Experience Centre Art Tech Project Debut Man-Made: The Convergence of Chinese Culture And Modern Technology, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong
• 7th edition of the Short Movie Club Film Festival “NEFILTRAVANAE KINO”, Cultural Centre Lo-Fi, Minsk, Belarus

2020-2021

• Wild Imagination - Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau from 2000 to 2020, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2020

• 5th Tengyun Summit 2020 – Fluid Boundaries, Tencent Beijing headquarter, Beijing, China
• 2nd Hong Kong Library Festival (LibFest), Online; Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong
• ReNew Vision, Online; Hong Kong
• Crossing Border Border Crossing, The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• Drawing as the Core, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist  University, Hong Kong
• Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau Digital Creative Design Exhibition, Online Exhibition
• disCONNECT wall of fame, London and Hong Kong, London, UK
• another day, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
• 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland

2019

• Alumni Art Exhibition of Fine Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Experience • Hong Kong Experiment, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• 2019 China International Digital Art Exhibition: China Digital Art “Belt and Road” Tour Exhibition, China; Italy; Kyrgyzstan
• Satellite Screen Silent Animation Loops, Denver, US
• Art West Lake: The 2nd International Ink and Wash Fair – INK RESTART, Hangzhou Peace International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hangzhou, China
• Art Basel 2019: Videotage Media Art Collection — Centripetal, Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong

2018

• InnoCarnival 2018, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong
• ink+ a thought, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• Alumni Art Exhibition of Fine Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2018, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Imaginary Difference: Beijing; Hong Kong; Macau: Ink & New Media@2018, Huang Art Museum Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
• Love Long: Robert Indiana and Asia, Asia Society Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Hanzi Exhibition, PMQ, Hong Kong
• Screaming Books, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
• Art West Lake 2nd Ink International Art Fair, Hangzhou, China
• Hong Kong Fine Print, HART Hall at H Queen’s, Hong Kong

2017

• Art as Cultural Observatory”, Feature Exhibition Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Larger Outdoor Immersive & multi-media Interactive Installation & Performance, TST Harbour, Hong Kong
• Luminous Shadows, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
• Lumieres Hong Kong 2017, Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong
• Becoming, No. 8 No. N2 Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
• Crossing Border ︳Border Crossing, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
• Experimental & Immersive Digital Animation Art Creation, Ko Shan Theatre, Hong Kong
• Igniting Art, Fuelling Creativity Project: Sparkle! Temperature of Communication, Oi!, Hong Kong
• Alumni Art Exhibition 2017 celebrating – The 60th Anniversary of the Fine Arts Department & The 35th Anniversary of the Alumni Association of Fine Arts Department, Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong

2016

• Futuristic Ink, Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong
• ITÄ-AASIAN VIDEOIKKUNA / East Asian Video Frames – Shades of Urbanization, Pori Art Museum, Finland
• INK REMIX: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia

2015

• “Ink + 3D & New Media” Ink Asia 2015, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• National Arts Education Programme – Arts and Design Series 2015: Poster Exhibition on The Book of Changes: Qian, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
• Generate! 2015, Tübingen, Germany
• A Legacy of Ink: Lui Shou-kwan 40 Years On, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
• INK REMIX: Contemporary art from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong Exhibition, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• China 8, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
• Ink As a Contemporary Art Practice, Formosa Art Show 2015, Taiwan

2014

• Conforming to Vicinity – A Cross-Strait Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project, Macau Museum of Art, Macau; Pingtung Art Museum, Taiwan; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen;　University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Our World: Now and Then, Gruenwald Press, Hong Kong
• Remaster vs Appropriating the Classics: VT Artsalon & am space Exchange Exhibition, am space, Hong Kong
• Interactive Jam with “Interactive Animation Exhibition of Creative Chinese Writing Exhibition”, 10 Day Fest, Jockey Club Social Innovation Series, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2013

• Hermit’s Springs: Calligraphy, Landscape Painting and Garden-making, West Lake Expo Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Young Artist Project: Video Festival Loop, Seoul, South Korea
• “Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards” exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• Collaborative Printmaking, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
• Now and Then: Contemporary Ink vs Antiquities, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
• Subjective Objects, HAJI Gallery, Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue” Exhibition Series V: The Origin of Dao: New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• Move on Asia – Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

2012

• Ancient Contemporary Installation Project, Fine Art Asia 2012, Hong Kong
• Four Symbols · Eight Faces, iPRECIATION Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• HONG KONG invisible, Schoeni Main Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• Intersections – Selected Asian Cultural Council Fellows, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2011

• Jakarta Biennale, MAXIMUM CITY, Indonesia
• Legacy and Creations – Art vs Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

2010

• Time Unfrozen – From Liu Kuo-Sung to New Media Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
• Legacy and Creations – Art vs Art, Shanghai World Expo 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (SH MoCA), Shanghai, China
• Ursula Bickle Videolounge, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Hong Kong International Art Fair 2010 (ARTHK 10), Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• ‘This is Hong Kong’, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts / 102 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
• Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• The 3rd Small Island Arts District Art Festival, Guangzhou, China
• The 7th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen: Com(ic)media on Line, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
• Lui Chun Kwong. You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun Hei Osage, Hong Kong
• <64 Incidents>, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

SELECTED AWARDS

2022  Gold Medal, The 13th International Innovation and Invention Competition, Taiwan

2021  Gold Medal; Best 10 Invention Designs Award, International Invention Innovation Competition, Canada

2020  Gold Medal, International Innovation and Invention Competition, Taiwan

2019-2020  Specific Student Empowerment Work Scheme, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2019  Honorable Mentions, Canada Shorts: Canadian and International Short Film Festival, Canada

2018  Excellence Award (Digital Media), HKDA Global Design Awards, Hong Kong

2013  Selected Work, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

2011  Secretary for Home Affairs Commendation Scheme Award (Person with Outstanding 

2010  Achievement Award, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

2008  Merit Recognition, Design for Asia Award, Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong

2007  Award for Outstanding Young Artist (Film and Media Arts), Hong Kong Arts

2006  Best of Code Award; Special Mention, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong

2005  Desiree and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, USA & Hong Kong

2002  President’s Award (Outstanding Performance & Achievements in Research and Scholarly Activities), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2001  Prize of Excellent, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

1998  Gold Award, Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong

1997  Special Award (Video); Distinguished Award; Best Selected Works, Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards, Hong Kong

1995  Alfred SU HO Memorial Prize, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1994  Mr. YS Hui Arts Collection Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1993  Most Promising Artist Award, Philippe Charriol Foundation Modern Arts Competition, Hong Kong

SELECTED COLLECTIONS