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IV Chan








IV Chan’s artistic interests are rooted in the complexity of the human body and the mind. She sees our inescapable and corporeal existence as tragic and ludicrous; sordid and pure. Through her practice of creating soft anthropomorphic sculptures, installations, poetry and performances, she reflects her own problematic bodily experiences, while addressing themes revolving around body politics, psychoanalysis, base materialism, and mythology. Probing this specific arena, namely the ”problematic body”, her research seeks to explore alternate perspectives and anticipations of one’s body in society.

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Born and raised in Hong Kong.
Currently part-time teaching in the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
MFA, 2020
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Post Grad, 2003
Maryland Institute College of Art, USA
BFA, 2002


Solo

2023
[Poop Me to the Moon] Pare Site,Art Basel, HK
2021
[Art After Hours: Inside Outside “What did mother not tell me”],JC Cube, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, HK
2018
[Pieces to Pieces] 好思當代-Haohaus,TaiPei, Taiwan
[our christmas] Précédée, HK



Two persons

2020
[Matters toward incorporeality], PMQ, HK
2018
[A Juxtaposition in Fate], Artourage, HK
2017
[To the souls that connect], 1-Art Gallery, Wuxi, China



Group
2023
[Sex Be With You], Novalis Art Design, HK
[A Book Act 2], Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2022
[The Thread Is Not Straight], Denny Dimin Gallery, HK
2021
[Second Skin], Karin Weber Gallery, HK
[Give way to the voices afterwards], Tomorrow Maybe, Eaton, HK
[A Clockwork Lai chi], JCCAC, HK
[Haunting Liminality: Refugia], corspesimulacrum, HK
[WOA], The Stallery, HK
[Celebrating Our 40 Years!], Sotheby’s, HK
2020
[Make _art Not War [T/F] works by MFA Graduates 2020 CUHK], Osage Gallery,HK
[Young Voices], TaiChung, Taiwan
[Beyond Boundaries] , Oi! Street Art Space, HK
[Fine Art Asia],HK
2019
[WOP - What’s On Paper], Visual Arts Center, HK
[Too Relevant] MFA Year 1 show , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
[Fine Art Asia], HK
2018
[The Paddock III : Posted], JCCAC, HK
[Art HsinChu], HsinChu, Taiwan
2017
[Shenzhen International Art Fair], Shenzhen, China  
[Wuxi-One], 1-Art Gallery, Wuxi, China
2016
[Shanghai Art Fair], Shanghai, China
2008
[Scorpius], Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2004
[unknown order], Shanghai Street Art Space, HK
[Dream Garden], Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Garden,HK



Art Residency

2021
[Tai Kwun Contemporary : Artist’s Studio Programme]



Awards and Nominations

2022
Finalists for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize



Theatre works (set and costume)

2021
[Who killed the elephant 2021]
(IATC(HK) Critics Awards : the scenography of the year)
2018
[The Plot]
[Zoo as Metaphor 2]



Articles and Interviews

Asian Art News Volume 30, no.3, 2020
“The sacred and the profane”
Asian Art News Volume 27, no.1, 2017
“artists in Fotan, Hong Kong”
HKEJ, culture column, 25/3/2016