born 1976, Guangdong, China

Lives and works in Hong Kong

Artist’s site

http://www.tsangkinwah.com/

Education

2003 MA Book Arts, Camberwell College of Arts, the London Institute,

London, UK

2000 BA Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Solo Exhibitions

2011 ‘NAM Project 015: Tsang Kin-Wah’ Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2009 ‘Tsang Kin-Wah: The Third Seal - They Are Already Old. They Don't Need To Exist Anymore.’ Pekin Fine Arts, Beijin

2008 ‘What Are You Looking At?’ Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK

        ‘Tsang Kin-wah’ Yvon Lambert Paris

2007 ‘Tsang Kin-wah’ Yvon Lambert New York Project Space, New York

2006 ‘Showcase: Tsang Kin-wah’ Art-U room, Tokyo

        ‘Wallpaper: Painted Patterns’ PicassoMio Gallery, Barcelona and Madrid

2005 ‘White Cube’ John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong

2004 ‘Space - installation exhibition by Tsang Kin-wah’ The Room with a View Gallery, Shanghai

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 ‘2011 Asian Art Biennale - Medi(t)ation’ National Taiwa Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Raiwan

        ‘Architecture of Fear’ Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium

        ‘THE VOICE OF...’ Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

        ‘See The Light’ Louis Vuitton Maison Gallery, Hong Kong

2010 ‘17th Biennale of Sydney’ Sydney, Australia

        ‘Aichi Triennale 2010’ Nagoya, Japan

        ‘Memories of the Future’ Leeum, Seoul, Korea

        ‘Decadence Now! Visions of Excess’ Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, the Czech Republic

        ‘Popping Up: Revisit the Relationship between 2D and 3D’ Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2009-2010 ‘Xᵉ Biennale de Lyon’ Lyon, France

2009 ‘Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation’ Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

        ‘Muse’ Louis Vuitton Maison Gallery, Hong Kong

2008 ‘Drawn in the Clouds’ Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

2007 ‘ShContemporary 2007’ Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai

        ‘Reversing Horizons - Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary’ Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai

        ‘You Cannot Clone It, But You Can Buy It’ ArtChina Gallery, Hamburg

        ‘Art Fair Tokyo 2007’ Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

        ‘Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2007’ Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo

        ‘+ & - + X’ 20 years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

        ‘Chinglish - Hong Kong Art Exhibition’ Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

        ‘Good/Bad’ Museum of Dostoevsky, St. Petersburg/KROCUS exhibition centre, Moscow/PLACE club, St. Petersburg

2006 Artist studio: from 180’ to 360’, IV International Young Art Festival “Stop! Who is coming?” Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

        ‘The State of Things’ National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

        ‘MEGartSTORE’ Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong

        ‘Preview’ Fat Galerie, Paris

2005 ‘30 x 30’ Vertigo Gallery, London

        ‘Pictorial Writing – Contemporary Chinese Character Posters’ Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland

        ‘Dutch Design Week 2005’ Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

        ‘Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005’ Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 

        ‘Art of Chinese Character Exhibition’ Artist Commune, Hong Kong

2004 ‘Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2004’ Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong

        ‘DETour - Wan Chai’ G.O.D., Hong Kong

2003 ‘Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003’ Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

        ‘Cheng Ming in All Directions: 40 Years of Art at the CUHK’ Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

        ‘Playful Mind - An Exhibition of Artworks with Comic's Element’ Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong

        ‘Show Home’ Timber Wharf, Manchester

        ‘The Book Arts MA, Camberwell’ University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

2001 ‘Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001’ Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

        ‘New Vision: Hong Kong Contemporary Art Renewal’ Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong

        ‘Salon d'hiver iii’ Galerie Martini, Hong Kong

2000 Berlin in Hong Kong - MTR Roving Art - "Test Tube Bears" Admiralty Station, MTR, Hong Kong

        ‘Salon d'hiver iii’ Galerie Martini, Hong Kong

1999 ‘Visual Motel’ Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong

        ‘HI! KITTY?’ Z+, Oil Street, Hong Kong

Major Awards

2007 Tokyo TDC Prize 2007 (Tokyo Type Directors Club, Tokyo)

2005 Winner, 2005 Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Sovereign Art Foundation)

2004 Bronze Prize, Thematic-"Space" Category, Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2004 (LCSD, Hong Kong Designers Association)

        Finalist, 2004 Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Sovereign Art Foundation)

2003 VAS Visual Arts Award (Hong Kong Visual Arts Society)

2001 Award winner, Prize of Excellence, Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001 (LSCD, Hong Kong)

2000 Ramon Woon Creative Prize (Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)

        Cheung's Fine Arts Awards (Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)

1999 Ting Yen Yung Memorial Artistic Achievement Award (Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)

        First Award in Western Painting (Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)

        First Award in Printmaking, Watercolour & Drawing (Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)

        Y. S. Hui Arts Collection Awards (New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong)

Scholarship

2002-2003 British Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK)

Artist in Residence

2003-2004 Hong Kong Open Printshop Artist-in-residence Scheme, Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong

2001-2002 Ceramists in Residence Program, I-Kiln Studio, Hong Kong

Collections

Sovereign Art Foundation

Shu Uemura, Costa Mesa, California

Camberwell College of Arts, the London Institute, London

Museum of Design Zurich, Switzerland

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Hong Kong Heritage Museum

New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Private collections (Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States)