We Must Construct As Well As Destroy, installation image, 2012  
  
Artists   Leung Chi Wo   
 
Leung Chi Wo’s reflective practice combines historical exploration with conceptual inquiry within a contemporary urban landscape. Ranging from photography and video to text, performance and installation, the artist is concerned with the undetermined relationship between conception, perception and understanding, especially in relation to site and history within cultural/political frameworks.

Born in Hong Kong, Leung Chi Wo graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1996 he co-founded Para/Site Art Space, one of Hong Kong’s most important art spaces. Leung Chi Wo has exhibited internationally and represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

His work will be included in the forthcoming Marrakech Biennale; he has had numerous solo exhibitions including Hanart TZ, The Asia Art Archive and Para/Site, all Hong Kong, and the Queens Museum of Art, New York. His work has been included in several international exhibitions including the Guangzhou Triennial (2008), the Busan Biennale (2006), Gwangju Biennale (2002) and the Shanghai Biennale (2000). Leung has exhibited at Tate Modern, London, PS1, New York, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo and the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius amongst others.
 
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Education:
MFA, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Post-Diploma, Culture of Photography, l'Istituto per lo Sviluppo Socio-Economico dello Spilimberghese, Italy
BA, Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
ROKEBY, London
Something about education but not exactly…, Esplanade, M1 Singapore Festival
There From Here, site-specific installation/commission, Cheung Sha Wan Gov. Offices Building, Hong Kong
(Inter)Viewing Possession, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Depot of Disappearance, AiR base, MQ, Vienna
In the Name of Victoria, IndexG, Toronto
Asia’s World City, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong
In the Name of Victoria, Korkos Gallery, Hong Kong
Text Format, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Domestica Invisibile, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong
Where is Hong Kong?, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
Colour Series, Zetterquist Galleries, New York
Something about city sky, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Victoria Tunnel, Para/Site, Hong Kong

Selected Group Exhibitions:
Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennale, Morocco
Double Happiness, Meet Factory, Prague
You Are Here, I Am Not. Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
City Flâneur, Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Shifting Topography, Hanart Square, Hong Kong
No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
New Vision: New Colours, Hong Kong Museum of Art
This is Hong Kong, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Kunsthalle Vienna
Dwelling, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Louis Vuitton: a Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Lights Out, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo
Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Old Central Police Station, Hong Kong
Pearl River City, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Reversing Horizons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
The Reading Records of City, M Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing
The Pearl River Delta, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Close Distance, Plymouth Art Centre, UK
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
Interrupt, Singapore Art Museum
Paris-Pekin: contemporary Chinese art collection of Myriam and Guy Ullens, Espace Cardin, Paris
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Hong Kong Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, curated by Johnson Chang Tsong-zung
Hot Pot: Contemporary Chinese Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum
Clockwork 2000, Clocktower Gallery of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Open Studio Exhibition, International Studio Program, New York
 
 
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