Biography :
Hui Wai-Keung was born in Hong Kong. He received his MFA from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, and studied in Hong Kong Art School. Hui has exhibited locally and abroad, and he has participated in artist-in-residency programs that are held in Europe and Asia. Over the past few years, Hui Wai-Keung has been working on game and algorithmic art, indulged in the visual possibilities in hyperspace; now he is doing research on the topics of virtual, possibility, contingency, time, future and history. Hui is now living in Taiwan, pursuing his PhD in Art Creation and Theory at the Tainan National University of the Arts.
( Contact : adam@huiwaikeung.org )
Resume :
Solo Exhibition :
2017 "Anywhere Out Of The World", Goethe-Gallery & Black Box Studio, Hong Kong
2013 “Emerging Artist Award – Solo Exhibition of Hui Wai Keung”, Sin Pin Pier - Absolutely Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 “Plastron – another side”, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
2007 “Toyology”, White Tube, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Award :
2017 Best Local Work in Media Arts Category, The 22nd ifva Awards, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions :
2022 “CONFIRMED | REGAINED”, Visual Arts Building, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
2020 "Peer to Peer: UK/HK", online festival, Hong Kong and UK
2019 "PLAY.GROUND II: video game art from Hong Kong", VGA Gallery, Chicago, USA
2018 "Algorithmic ART: Shuffling Space and Time", Hong Kong City Hall, Central, Hong Kong
2018 "TIAMAT", 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2018 "ifva Carnival – The City is the Cinema", Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
2018 "Ignoring Literature", PRÉCÉDÉE artspace, Hong Kong
2017 "PLAY.GROUND: video game art from Hong Kong", Tokyo Arts and Space hongo (Tokyo Wonder Site), Toyko, Japan
2017 "We <3 Machinima!", "Next Level - Festival for Games 2017", Black Box im Filmmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 “The 22nd ifva Awards”, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2016 "GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY", "XXI Triennale International Exhibition. 21st Century. Design after Design", the Contemporary Hall Gallery, IULM University, Milan, Italy
2014 “HUI, Wai Keung and HAO, Lap Yan Benjamin's Joint Exhibition”, Front \ SiDE gallery, Hong Kong
2013 “MaD@Freespace Fest Collaborative Programmes: Construction in Progress”, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong
2012 Breathing pop-up art space, Turku, Finland
2010 “65th”, Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2009 “ART & DEMOCRACY IV”, Gallery H, New York City, USA
2009 “Art in Busan 2009 : Inter-City”, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2009 “Feng Yu Piao Yao Ai Guo Shi”, Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2008 “Life . Play”, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2008 “Athens Video Art Festival 08”, “Technopolis”, Athens, Greece
2007 “Kwun Tong Artist Studios Open Day”, artist studios in Kwun Tong industrial area, Hong Kong
2006 “Artiple – An Artist Product Project”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2006 “Outsourcing Project”, Too Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 “International Festival of Electronic Art 404″, Juan B. Castagnino Art Museum and CEC, Rosario, Argentina
2004 “Emomentless”, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Curating :
2018 "TIAMAT", 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2016 “Black Bile”, 100ft. PARK Gallery, Hong Kong
Artist in Residency :
2022 Makodaay Artist Village, Hualien, Taiwan
2020 QUAD Gallery, Derby (Virtual Residency), UK
2013 Openspace Bae, Busan, South Korea
2012 Sumu A.i.R, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
2011 ARCUS Project, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan
2011 Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Education :
2004 Graduated in MFA in Media Design and Technology (Full-Time), School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
2005 Graduated in Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture) (Part-Time Evening), Hong Kong Art School