About Kristy M Chan

Kristy M Chan’s hologram-like work explores notions of humour and displacement. Dense with information and odd depictions of her environment, the work reflects on the artist's upbringing in Hong Kong and the experience of migration. It explores the act of locating “home” and its relationship with its cultural geographies. Each work is the direct result of the process of its own making, perhaps a parallax of reality through irrational conversion, and an intentional analysis of Chan’s identity, diffracted by paint. Chan describes these abstracted spaces as “stolen realities". Her work acts as a visual archive of the mundanity of everyday life where giddy interactions and internal jokes are re-territorialised in a new space, allowing new perspectives. The convergence of these conjectural planes seems peculiar and without notion, but the paintings allude to shape through imagination. These “stolen realities” also ponder on the notion of the present and of the minute events of her everyday life, encouraging an appreciative perspective towards the mundane.

Education

2019 - 2020 MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

2016 - 2019 BFA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

Residencies

2021 Artist in Residence at CoGalleries, Berlin 

2021 Artist in Residence at La Wayaka Current, Chile 

2020 Artist in Residence at PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig 

2019 Artist in Residence at the AIR Frosterus, Finland

2018 Artist in Residence at Cheltenham College, United Kingdom

Exhibitions

2021

Femme-Ate, Soho Revue, London, UK 

Video Fenster Projekt, Cologne, Germany 

It’s All Relative, Artistellar x Four You Gallery (Online) 

CADAF, Paris, France (Online) 

The X Colab, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames, UK 

It’s Okay You Can Laugh, Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield, UK 

Space Shuffler, HART HAUS, Hong Kong 

Instructions For Waiting, Liminal Gallery, UK (Online) 

New Era, Art Number 23, Greece (Online) 

Birthday Party, The Artists Contemporary Atelier, UK (Online) 

2020

Lichtspiele Des Westen, Josephstraße, Leipzig, Germany 

Big Soft Illusion, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany 

Herstory, Beauty For Freedom x House2Six (Artnet) 

Memeosyne Atlas, Ziferblat London, London, United Kingdom 

Recurring Memories, @visualspc (Online) 

Delineating Dreams, Kovet.art (Online) 

Anti-Freeze, www.antifreezeexhibition.com (Online) Art Still Flourishes, @visualspc (Online) 

Bored in the House, @ldn.exhibitions (Online)

2019

Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, United Kingdom

GIFC x Velvet Ropes, Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

GIFC x Velvet Ropes, House of Vans, London, United Kingdom

Haam4 Seoi2 Goeng1, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong

Pop-up exhibition, ARS Kärsämäki, Kärsämäki, Finland

Set the Borders On Fire!, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland

18/11/1, Curator and exhibitor at the PMQ, Hong Kong

BRIDGE II, Grand Hyatt Regency, Sochi, Russia

NOISE, Crypt Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2018

Clocks to Colours (solo), Long Gallery, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

BRIDGE, IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2017

8 OVER 8, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong

Progress ;/, Regress, Crypt Gallery, London, United Kingdom