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Image taken by Andy Li at Negative Space
Chan Ka Kiu (b.1995 Toronto, Canada) is a Hong Kong based artist, graduated in 2021 from City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media (MFA). Chan’s previous exhibitions include solo exhibition with Parasite, “Don’t come so fast, darling” (Art Basel 2019, Hong Kong), and group shows “Very Natural Actions” (TaiKwun, Hong Kong, 2020), and “Tree Fall in the Woods and No One’s There” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018).
Focusing on intangible mundane bizarreries of secular lives, Chan Ka Kiu romanticizes daily scenarios into playful puns and honest confessions. In the equal power of sneers and tears, her practice penetrates through humor leaving its bitter aftertaste. Reflecting on accumulating personal experiences, and pointing to the absurdity and paradoxes hidden within routine, Chan playfully juxtaposes seemingly unrelated scenarios in everyday life, reenacting the commonly missed.
Exhibitions
個展 Solo Exhibition
2021
It’s Always You
K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong
你不是一個窿
You are not alone
RNH Space, Hong Kong
2019
慢慢黎啦，打令
Darling, Don’t Come So Fast
Para/site, Art Basel Hong Kong
聯展 Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
HIGH RES WORLD: GOK DOU LIVE
Asia Society, Art Central, Hong Kong
Meet Me Under the Cherry Tree
Ground Floor, Vancouver
2021
ZE/RO
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Please Mind the Gap
School of Creative Media MFA Graduation Show, Hong Kong