Luk, Andrew

1988
New Jersey , USA
Andrew Luk (b. 1988, New Jersey, USA) is a Hong Kong artist who received their BFA from New England School of Art and Design, and MFA for sculpture at Yale School of Art.

As a sculpture and installation artist, h
e works across a range of media examining the intricacies of the human experience, based on his fascination with history, as well as the myths and histories associated with civilization-building, mythologies, and ideologies. Investigating the creases between binaries such as culture and nature, human and non-human, and the personal and the collaborative, Luk’s sculptures and installations explore utopian desires of perfection and their dystopian repercussions. Although the works are diverse, the practice is united through an exploration of ideological superstructures and their systems of expression—delicately tracing connections across disciplines, speculating on potential futures, and revealing expressions of beauty, preservation, and entropy.

Currently, his work involves the deep dive into Thale Cress – a radiation-sensitive plant studied by space agencies – that represents extraterrestrial colonization. Materials such as Martian Regolith Simulant (a type of soil analogue that were used by scientists to grow food on mars), liquified carbon (Chinese calligraphy ink), and pages from science fiction stories (Ted Chiang’s Tower of Babylon, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains) all transform into his inquiry into history, ethics, and metaphysical limits. 


His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Next Act, Asia Society, Hong Kong, 2020-2021; Very Natural Actions, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2019; Serious Games, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2019; Appropriate Responses for Featherless Bipeds with Broad Flat Nails, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, 2018; A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One’s There, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018; Practice, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, 2017; and At Wits’ End, Kula Bazaar Asian Cultural Council, Gwangju, Korea, 2016.

In 2025, Post-Natural Oasis at Alisan Fine Arts New York marked the gallery's first collaboration with the artist.

BIOGRAPHY

1988   Born in New Jersey, USA
2010  
Bachelor of Arts, European History, Suffolk University, Boston, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, USA

2017 Artist Residency, WING Platform, Hong Kong 

Artist Residency, de Sarthe, Hong Kong

2019   Artist Residency, Future Cities, CFCCA x Videotage, Manchester, UK 
2021   
Artist in Residence, Delfina Foundation, London, UK 

2022   Artist Residency, Leave Your Body, Videotage, Hong Kong

Artist Residency, Vital Capacities, Videoclub, Bristol, UK
2025   Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2025

  • (h)ours, Yale Sculpture MFA Thesis Presentation, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA

2022

  • Haunted, Salvaged, K11 Musea, Hong Kong

2021

  • Ready\Set\Fulfill, Andrew Luk in collaboration with Samuel Swope, de Sarthe, Hong Kong

2020

  • Shifting Landscapes, de Sarthe, Hong Kong

2018

  • Appropriate Responses for Featherless Bipeds With Broad Flat Nails, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2017

  • Practice, de Sarthe, Hong Kong

2015

  • No Fixed Abode, Videotage, Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

2024

  • Second Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
  • The Giant’s Foot Scrubber, Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2023

  • Why do i always fall out of bed at night?, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
  • G/F, HART Haus, Hong Kong
  • Play & Loop V, Blindspot, Hong Kong

2022

  • A Collection in Two Acts, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
  • ZODIAC, Boogie Woogie Photography, Hong Kong
  • New beginnings, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong

2021

  • Encounters, Art Basel, Hong Kong

2020-2021

  • Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong, Asia Society, Hong Kong

2020

  • A’fair, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
  • Museum of Half Truths, 1a Space, Hong Kong 
  • Contemporary Show Off, de Sarthe, Hong Kong

2019

  • Very Natural Actions, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong 
  • Serious Games, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China 
  • Scaffolds of Meaning, Mine Project Gallery, Hong Kong

2018

  • A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One's There, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
  • Offline Browser: 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 
  • Beckoning the Mutation, Club Pro Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA 
  • Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong

2017

  • The Preservationists, Duddell’s, Hong Kong 
  • White Cell, WING Platform, Hong Kong 
  • Autosave: Redoubt, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
  • The Garden, chi Art Space, Hong Kong 
  • Debris Constellation, Neptune, Hong Kong 
  • LIGHT & SPACE, 10 Design Architect Studio, Hong Kong

2016

  • →, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong 
  • At Wit’s End, Kula-Bazaar Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea 
  • The Imaginary Order, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong

2015

  • The Magnet Palace, Clockenflap, Hong Kong 
  • Change Seed: Contemporary art from HK & Beyond, Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA 
  • ART MONEY, XXX Gallery, Hong Kong

2011

  • Cavity Lab, 100 Condor St, Boston, USA

2010

  • Springboard 2, The Adams Gallery, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, USA
  • Fine Arts Senior Thesis Show, NESAD, Boston, USA

SELECTED AWARDS

2014   Emerging Artist Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
2016   
Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA 
Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation, Shenyang, China 
M+, Hong Kong

K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong

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