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Silas Fong
Born in 1985, Hong Kong
Assistant Professor at the Department of Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Seoul/Anseong, Korea, since 2017
Lives and works in Hong Kong and Seoul
Education
2022-Present DFA Candidate in Media Art, Graduate School of Communication and Arts, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2013-2015 Media and Fine Art, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
2010-2012 Master of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2007-2008 Student Exchange Programme, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005-2008 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Upcoming Exhibition)
Gallery Chosun, Seoul
2023 SAD Kitchen: Oi! Guide — A Comfort Food Journey
Oi!, Hong Kong
2021 SAD Kitchen
Art Space Sonahmoo, Anseong, Korea
2021 SAD Info Days 2021
Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2020 SAD School of Artists Development
Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2019 SAD Info Days
PS333, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2018 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Videotage, Hong Kong
2016 There is No Time
Hong-ti Art Center, Busan, Korea
2016 Piccoloministr. 316
Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Hong Kong
2015 Flat D, 6/F, Aldrich Garden
Case – Project Room of Photography, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
2012 Sitcom
Observation Society, Guangzhou
2011 Memory Disorder
Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2008 Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong
Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
2024 No Place Like Home (Upcoming)
ARKO Art Center, Seoul
2023 Under the Surface
Horrangasy Creative Studio, Gwangju, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
Horrangasy, Gwangju, Korea
The Journey Through Art Sociology Leads to Art Philosophy: Artists’ Anthology
Seoul National University Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2022 Art Naha International Art Exhibition
Various venues in Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Artist of Tomorrow
Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
Unpack
Kote, Seoul, Korea
Pre- Post Cheonan
Ligak Museum of Art, Cheonan, Korea
2021 BOOKED #4: Hong Kong Art Book Fair
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Show Con – Osan Museum of Art Container Exhibition
Outdoor Space of Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Korea
Softfocus International Exchange Programme Exhibition
Space Ubermensch, Busan, Korea; 523KunstDoc, Busan, Korea; softfocus.space, Online
BOOKED: 2021 Art Book Pop-Ups
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2020 The 10th Yeosu International Art Festival
Yeosu EXPO Exhibition Hall, Yeosu City, Korea
20th Seoul International New Media Festival
Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea
Turbulent Area
Korean Cultural Center, Hong Kong
Cheongju Art Studio 14th Preview Exhibition
Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
Castles in the Air
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Booked: Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Hong Kong Art Book Fair
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2019 AVA.I.Label – In Search of AVA Identity
Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Communication and Visual Arts Building, HKBU
King Sejong and Music: Chihwapyeong
Presidential Archives, Sejong City, Korea
Make: Experiments in Art Making
Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul
Exit Strategies
H Queen’s, Hong Kong
Booked: Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Hong Kong Art Book Fair
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2018 Once A God: The Myth of Future Refugees: Taehwa Eco-River Art Festival
Taehwa River Park, Ulsan
The Day the Gods Stop Laughing
Duddell’s, Hong Kong
Housewarming
Better Than Company, Seoul
2017 Changsaengjeon
Jangsangpo Shinjin Inn, Ulsan
Up Close Yet Unfamiliar
AMC Lab, Seoul
Mark CHUNG, Silas FONG, Nicole WONG
Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
Folding/Unfolding: Mobile Photography Exhibition
HKBU AVA Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong
Me: Millennials
K11, Hong Kong
Through the Lens
chi K11 Art Space, Hong Kong
2016 Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition (Touring Exhibition)
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (RMCA), Guangzhou
POST PiXEL.: Animamix Biennale 2016
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
Black Bile
100 ft. PARK, Hong Kong
2015 Hazy Winter
Canton Gallery, Guangzhou
Both Sides Now 2 – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times?
chi K11 art space, Hong Kong; Ray Art Center, Shanghai
15 Invitations | a short history of the art book bag (and the things that go in them)
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
The Shifting Territory
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Rundgang
Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
after/image
Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong
The 20th ifva Awards – Media Art Category Finalist Exhibition
Pao Galleries Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2014 DIY Future – New Media Arts Exhibition
Hong Kong City Hall
alle berichten darüber – documentary photography
Case – Projektraum der Fotografie, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
Looking at the Big Sky
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 Cynetart International Festival for Computer Based Art
Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2013
Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong
HARD WARE SOFT CORE
team titanic, Berlin
OPEN STUDIOS
GlogauAIR, Berlin
inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 – “MicroCities”
The NARS Foundation, Long Island City, New York
Hong Kong Eye
ArtisTree, Hong Kong; Clipper Lounge, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
Sky++, Digital Community Arts Exhibition
Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004–2013
City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Move on Asia Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012
Media Museum, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012 Hong Kong Eye – Contemporary Hong Kong Art
Saatchi Gallery, London
Move on Asia 2012
Alternative Space Loop, Seoul
Inventing Dreams
Weeds Studio, Hong Kong
Running on the Sidelines – Hong Kong New Media Art Exhibition
Soka Art Center, Taipei
AVA x JCTIC
CVA Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2011 Detour 2011: Use-less
Former Police Married Quarter, Central, Hong Kong
Video Art For All – International Video Art Festival 2011
Orient Foundation, Paraca Luis De Camoes, Macau
Nightlight
Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek, The Netherlands
The 11th Seoul International NewMedia Festival
Media Theater i-Gong, Seoul, Korea
The Order of Things
Netfilmmakers, Copenhagen, Denmark
Videotage, Hong Kong
Liverpool Biennial 2010 Screening at LOOP
Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2010 Experimenta Mostra De Videos – Homemade video from Hong Kong
SESC Campinas, Brazil
Liverpool Biennial 2010: Media Landscape, Zone East
Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK
Korea Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Move On Asia 2010 Single Channel Video Art Festival (Touring Exhibition)
Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London
Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea;
Art Taipei 2010
Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Re-Orientation
Former Married Police Quarter, Hong Kong
2009 Mirror Stage
Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
a place changes as we look
agnes b.’s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE, Hong Kong
Cross
YY9 Gallery, Hong Kong
This is Hong Kong (Touring Exhibition)
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria/ Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Map Office, Hong Kong/ Casa Asia, Madrid, Spain
IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany/ East Side Projects Birmingham, England
subvision. art. festival. off., subvision, Hamburg, Germany/ Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
LOOP Festival, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
2009 Macau City Fringe
Tap Seac Square, Macau
Feigned Innocence
Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
The 14th ifva (Interactive Media Category) Finalist Works Exhibition
4/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Some rooms
Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
2008 Live Herring ‘08 – Media Art Exhibition
The Jyväskylä Art Museum, Holvi, Kauppakatu 23, Jyväskylä, Finland
Augen-Blick 2.0 – Mirroring China
Fyoer und Quergalerie, Universität der Künste, Hardenbergstrasse 33, D-10623 Berlin
New Trend 2008
Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
Current, Graduation Exhibition
AVA Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Arrest – An exhibition of frozen time and space
No. N5, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
2007 Observation and Investigation, Installation Art Exhibition
AVA Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
I don’t look at it, I just use it – Everyday Design-Exhibition
AVA Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Bliss – Joint-University Multimedia Exhibition
AVA Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2006 Academy of Visual Arts Inauguration Exhibition
Academy of Visual Arts Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Stage and Performance
2012 The Rising Stars of Asia – Hong Kong Epilogue (Comissioned by the Octavian Society)
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
2011 New Stage Series: Tree Rhapsody
Drama Theatre, HK Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong
2010 Scenes from childhood
Foyer, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
Brian Eno’s Music for Airports – New Audio-Visual Counterpoint
Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong
2009 Architecture is … Discourse with music
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
Artist in Residence/ Cultural Exchange
2023 Horanggasy Creative Studio, Gwangju, Korea
2023 Oi!, Hong Kong
2021 Science Walden x Sonahmoo Art Space Residency, Anseong, Korea
2020 Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
2019 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2018 Art Stay, Ulsan, Korea
2017 FUSE, Videotage, Hong Kong
2016 Hongti Art Center, Busan, Korea
2016 Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
2013 GlogauAir, Berlin, Germany
2011 Summercamp Electrified 2011, Timelab, Gent, Belgium
2010 City As Play: Japan – Hong Kong Cultural Exchange Programme, Co-organised by Osage Art Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Teaching, Guest Lectures, Artist’s Talk
Since 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
2017 Guest Speaker, Artist’s Talk, RAT School of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Tutor, Workshop (8 Sessions) – Book of Light and Show, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
2016 Speaker, Artist’s Talk, Piccoloministr. 316, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
2013 Guest Speaker. Dept. of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
2013 Guest Speaker, Young Friends, Friends of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2012 Guest Speaker, Young Friends, Friends of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2012 NewNowNext – A Talk with Young Chinese Artists. Asia Art Pacific and Chambers Fine Arts of New York/Beijing
2012 Guest Speaker, Centre for the Arts, Student Affairs Office, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2011 Guest Speaker, Portfolio Workshop. Visual Arts Axis, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2009 Guest lecturer and Workshops Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
2009 Guest Speaker, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art
Awards & Achievements
2015 Finalist, Media Art Category, The 20th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
2010 40 under 40, Perspective Magazine
2009 Young Artist Award, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art
2009 Gold Award, Interactive Media Category, The 14th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
2008 Collection of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
2008 Outstanding work, Graduation show, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Grants
2016 Emerging Artist Scheme, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2016 Arts Development Fund (Cultural Exchange Project), Home Affairs Bureau, Government of Hong Kong SAR
2016 HKADC Delegation in Gwangju Biennale 2016, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2013 Grantee, Prof. Maiching Kao Fine Arts Fund
Publications
SAD School of Artists Development. Seoul, 2021, pp. 1-102.
Vocabulary: Understanding Your Art Professor and Make Life Easier. Seoul, 2019, pp. 1-48.
Small Talk: Sample Conversations for Your Perfect Date and Successful Meeting. Hong Kong, 2018, pp. 1-100.
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening. Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, 2018, pp. 1-40.
Silas Fong: Works 2008-2016. Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, 2016, pp. 1-76.
20 Years of Goethe Gallery. Goethe Institut Hongkong, 2016, pp. 22-23.
POST PIXEL. Animamix Biennale. Exh. cat. Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Government of
Hong Kong SAR, 2016, pp. 24-27.
Timesheets. Artist book comissioned by Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, 2016, pp. 1-80.
Piccoloministr. 316. Exh. cat. Goethe Institut Hongkong, Hong Kong, 2016, pp. 1-16.
Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition. Exh. cat. CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2016, pp. 236.
Silas Fong: Sitcom. Exh. cat. Observation Society, Guangzhou, 2012, pp. 1-16.
Hong Kong Eye: Contemporary Hong Kong Art, Skira Editore S.p.A. , Milan, 2012.
Move on Asia. Exh. cat. Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, 2012, pp. 62-63.
Media Landscape, Zone East. Exh. cat. Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, 2010.
This is Hong Kong: 15 Video Artists, Para/Site Art Space , Hong Kong, 2010.
Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation, Timezone 8, Beijing, 2010.