MAN MEI TO - 文 美 桃
Live in Hong Kong
Man Mei To (b.1990) obtained her Bachelor degrees in Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and Hong Kong Arts School in 2017, majoring in painting. Her artworks incorporate various media such as painting, photography, video, sound, installation and mixed media.
Man’s artworks typically engage the “ the body ” and “ the city ”. She consciously carries her sensitivity of searching body intimacy to explore the landscape in city ; urbanized life ; fading scenario and vanishing objects around the cityscape. Her works aim at providing awareness on ‘ his ’ existence, and the dialogue between his ’ fragility ’ and ‘ his ’ silence by objectifying, cloning, reconstructing and quantifying found objects around. And looking for the weight of these objects once they had from their fragment. She hopes to find a closed relationship between the land and our body through her art practice, until reaching a natural state for both to exist.
Man has initiated her solo exhibition in ( A walk with A3, Hong Kong 2016 ) , ( Floating Projects, Hong Kong , 2018 ). And she has previously participated in Primitive Sense Art festival ( Omachi City, Nagano,Japan 2016 ), Ensemble ( VT Artsalon, Taipei 2017 ), etc.
文 美 桃 生於1990年，獲皇家墨爾本理工大學及香港藝術學院藝術學士學位，主修繪畫。她的作品混合多種媒介，包括繪畫、攝影、錄像、聲音、裝置及混合媒介等。
文氏作品多涉及「城市」及「身體」兩種不同探索命題。由身體的親密性游走到城市的景觀，探究城市化的生活，消逝的事件與物件。用物化，複製，重塑，以及量化的方式，令你重新注視到他的存在，他的脆弱與沉默之間的對話。在脆弱、零碎的物件中尋找他曾存在的重量。把身體與土地拉得更近，帶到最自然的狀態。
在2016年舉辦了首個個人展覽《洗衣店》 （A walk with A3, 香港），其他作品亦曾於國外展出，如 《原始感覺藝術祭 - 2016》（大町市, 日本），《類聚集》（非常廟藝文空間, 台北），《公共藝術: Ring Ring Belt - 2018 》 (首爾, 韓國) 及 《光州國際藝術博覽會 - 2018》（光州, 韓國）等等。
EDUCATIONAL:
Current Art Specialist Advanced Course ( Sculpture ), Hong Kong Visual Art Centre
2017 BA, Fine Arts(Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) / The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Sediment and Undercurrent, ACO Art Space, Hong Kong
2018 The Distance of Space, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
2016 Laundry Shop, A walk with A3, Hong Kong
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019
::: In Search of Coast Line - Art parade Education Project 2018 - 2019, Art Together, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2018
::: 2018 Public art: Ring Ring Belt, C & G Artpartment, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul, Korea
::: Gwangju International Art Fair 2018｜Art Together Limited, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea
::: Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
::: Zoo as Metaphor (2), orleanlaiproject, New Vision Arts Festival 2018, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong
2017
::: Deep Silence, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
::: Ensemble, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan
2016
::: As the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Project, 1a space, Hong Kong
::: Decongestion of West Kowloonization – Soil. Play, C&G Artpartment, Nullah Road, Sitting-out area, Prince Edward, Hong Kong
::: SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s telling stories | The storyteller of the Water,
Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan
::: Book Shop, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong
2015
::: Fine Art Asia 2015｜Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
::: Fresh Trend 2015 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Central, Hong Kong
::: An Aeroplane community art exhibition on stories of Kowloon City, ‘’Write me a letter when you arrive...’’,
Kowloon City Street, Hong Kong
::: A/AN “ “, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2015, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
::: She has a gloomy dream / His silent disorder, Carol Lee Studio, Chai Wai Mei, Hong Kong
2014
::: “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show, Art Experience Foundation, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
::: Island– Story. Life. Landscape. Mixed Media Exhibition, Literature+ Video+ Photography+ Visual Arts, Gallery,
HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
::: BOING! - pop-up art market, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
::: The 15543rd same exhibition, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
2008
::: Before sleep (School photography group exhibition), Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
CO - CURATED PROJECT:
2019 - 2020 A Page A Wish | XCHANGE : Make Good Make Over, Activity Room 1, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY:
2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s telling stories | The storyteller of the Water,
Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan
ART FESTIVAL:
2018 Zoo as Metaphor (2), orleanlaiproject, New Vision Arts Festival 2018, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong
2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s telling stories | The storyteller of the Water,
Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan
ART FAIRS:
2018 Gwangju International Art Fair 2018｜Art Together Limited, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea
2015 Fine Art Asia 2015｜Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
EXHIBITION SPACE DESIGN:
2018 In Full Blossom, On and On Cattle Depot Theatre, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
SELECTED AWARDS:
2015 : Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship (2014/2015)
2014 : Art Experience Foundation Presents: “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show
2012 : Outstanding Performance Scholarship, Self- Financing Post- Secondary Scholarship Scheme, Education Bureau HKSAR
2012 : Best Artwork (PAINTING), Hong Kong Art School
2008 : Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship
COLLECTIONS:
::: Private collections in Hong Kong
::: Private collections in Japan
::: Collections in Soho House
::: Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 Documentation Zine of A Page A Wish (Oi!, HK)
PRODUCED BY:
2020 Tableware making local Utensil of A Page A Wish (Oi!, HK)