Choi, Bouie

born 1987 Hong Kong

Pushing the possibilities of urban imagery, Choi is interested in giving shape to the fleeting impressions of a city through interweaving fragments of memory in her paintings and videos. Her creative process is like searching for light under overcast skies. The landscapes she paints often remind us of humanity’s insignificance through juxtaposing the visible and the invisible, the artificial and the natural, the scattered and the gathered, micro and macro beings; their coexistence reflects the artist's state of mind. If a painting is a manifestation of infinite borrowed space and time, Choi attempts to negotiate the gap between the tangible and the intangible, and to explore indescribable space and time with the light of hope and the power of urban imagery. In recent years, Choi has familiarised herself with wood and explores the definition of freedom with multi-perspective and layered temporalities, imbuing the material with her state of mind through the repetitive processes of preserving, sanding, washing, and sprinkling.

Choi holds a BA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009, and an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 2012. Her recent solo exhibitions include We stay up late to behold the beauty of the stars in Basel in Switzerland; and Crossing the Nights Filling the Lines in Hong Kong, both in 2023; Borrowed Space Borrowed Time in Hong Kong in 2020. She has also participated in various group shows in the UK, Dubai, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA until Jan 2026.

Alisan Fine Arts New York exhibited Choi's works in group exhibition Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices, 2024, and Hybrid Nature, 2025. Alisan Fine Arts has also included her works at the Armory Show, New York in the same year.

BIOGRAPHY
1978 Born in Hong Kong
2009 BA Fine Art, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2012 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of Arts London, London, UK

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023

We stay up late to behold the beauty of the star, PF25, Basel, Switzerland
Crossing the nights Filling the lines, a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi Yuk-kuen, Grotto SKW, Hong Kong

2020

borrowed space borrowed time, a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi Yuk-kuen, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong

2015

The Breathing Room, Choi Yuk-kuen Solo Exhibition, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong

2011

Comfort Terrace: Choi Yuk-kuen Solo Exhibition, Grotto Fine Arts, Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025-2026

Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA

2025

2024

Three Tired Tigers, Jameel Arts Centre, Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai, UAE
Like Water Like Shadow, Sonic-Visual Interplay, HK New Music Ensemble, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA
Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan

2023

Unfinished: The Invisible Condition, Wure Area, Hong Kong
Node to node, 182 Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Where Great Minds Shine: CUHK 60th Anniversary Alumni Arts Exhibition, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong

2021

Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian Int’l Art Exhibition–Hong Kong Return Show, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Arts and Cultural Centre of Fukuoka, Kyushu Geibun-kan, Japan

2019

Mid-term, Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Flower of Words, Eslite, Hong Kong
木每雙生 – 文學視藝的再世紅梅, 1a Space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
The Pulse of Nature: Lung Fu Shan Exhibition, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Together We March Forward: New Asia 70th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Hart Hall, H Queen, Hong Kong
An introduction of Zit-Dim Art Space, Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2017

Drips of Serenity: Bouie Choi & Zaffer Chan, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong

2016, 2022, 2023

Ink Asia, Hong Kong

2014, 2018, 2021-2024

Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2014, 2016, 2017

Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong

2014

Zau Gaai Gaau Ngai Seot, Street show in Kowloon City, Hong Kong

2013

The Spirit of Ink: 12 Hong Kong Artists, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2012

MA show 2012, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Chelsea Salon Series, Round Chapel, Powerscroft Road, London, UK

SELECTED PROJECTS
2024 Commissioned work Messengers from the Wild by Jameel Art Center, Dubai
Commissioned Project Like Water Like Shadow by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong
2019 Commissioned site-specific project Tales of Austin by Luk Hoi Tong Life Assurance, Hong Kong
2017 Participated in Cultural Weaving community writing project, The Mills, Hong Kong