Artist | Chau Kirsty Hoi Yee
Painting / Drawing
Britain / Hong Kong
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About Chau Kirsty Hoi Yee
Kirsty Hoi-Yee Chau, an artist specializing in ink-on-paper portraiture, is a PhD student at the University of Reading. She uses psychoanalytic theories to research viewing experience, identification and subjectivity of multi-panel portraiture. She received an MA in Drawing (distinction) from Wimbledon College of Art and a BA in Fine Art (distinction) from RMIT University in Australia. She also received psychology training in Hong Kong.
Having started her career in art in 2005, Kirsty mainly focuses on unconventional psychological investigations of the human minds. Her academic training leads her to question the boundaries between sanity and insanity, logicality and illogicality, as well as the beauty and the ugly. Her works often display sumptuous and colorful images of human faces. Her representative works include Passive aggression (2005), Good wife (2009) and We just want to hold our heads upright diptych (2012).
She has given several solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Hong Kong. In 2010, she was selected to participate in the documentary ‘Young Hong Kong Artist Dialogue Project’. Her works have received media attention.
CV
Education
PhD in Fine art 2014 to present
University of Reading
- Master of Arts in Drawing
University of the Arts London 2012-2013
Dissertation: Viewing and Constructing Portraits in Multi-panel Formation I argued that multi-panel formation brings viewers a new expereince in viewing, an dthat there are many unexplored possibilities on the use of this formation.
- Bachelor of Arts in Fine art (with distinction) 2004-2006
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Hong Kong Shue Yan University 2001-2004
Exhibitions (solo)
Humans • INK – Chau Hoi Yee Solo Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club, HK 2011
Select Exhibitions (group)
University of the arts London Postgraduate show, Wimbledon College of Art, UK 2013
MA Drawing Show, The National Gallery, UK 2013
The Eileen Chang Painting Award Exhibition, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 2010
Ai Shen Ti exhibition, K R studio, HK 2010
Blue Lotus Gallery—Joint Exhibition, ‘Sentiments II’, K R studio, HK 2009
RMIT BA Graduate Show, Bao’s gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre, HK 2007
Sentiments, Culture Club, Hong Kong 2007
Momentum, HK Visual Arts Centre, HK 2007
Environmental art project-Tree or not, Hong Kong Kardoorie Farm, HK 2006
Seven, White tube gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK 2005
Awards & Scholarships
Hong Kong Art Prize, Shortlisted 2013
The Eileen Chang Painting Award, Shortlisted 2010
Hong Kong Shue Yan University Scholarship 2002
Hong Kong Shue Yan University Scholarship 2001
Commissions
‘Endless’ Art Exhibition, Chow Sang Sang Jewelry Company---Central Flagship store, Hong Kong 2009
Curating
Transcendence Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, HK 2012
Ai Shen Ti exhibition, K R studio, HK 2010
KR01 exhibition, Fotan Open Studio, K R studio, HK 2008
Momentum, HK Visual Arts Centre, HK 2007
Media Coverage:
Taikungpao (interview, newspaper), Hong Kong 2011
Wenwuipo (review, newspaper), Hong Kong 2011
Young Hong Kong Artist Dialogue (Interview, Video project), Hong Kong 2010
Mingpao Weekly (interview/magazine), Hong Kong 2008
Singtao daily (interview/newspaper), Hong Kong 2008
Wenwuipo (review/newspaper), Hong Kong 2007
AM 730 (review/newspaper), Hong Kong 2009
Inmediahk.net (review/online), Hong Kong 2005
South China Morning Post (review/newspaper), Hong Kong 2005
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