MAN MEI TO
Man Mei-To obtained her MFA (Sculpture) from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2024. She received a BA (Painting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in 2017.
Man has been exhibited in international institutions including the Para Site (2025); Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and Shanghai (2025); Ubicua Gallery, London (2025); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2024); Tangent Projects, Barcelona (2024); Kyushu Geibun-kan, Fukuoka, Japan (2021); and CHAT-Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (2022), Rossi & Rossi (2020), Gallery EXIT (2020), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2018) and Hong Kong Arts Centre (2017). In 2021, she was selected for the Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists’ Studio residency programme.
Man’s work traces personal history in parallel with social development, observing human mobility alongside land transformation and the disorienting nature of labour. These themes inform her ongoing exploration of fluidity and tension in artmaking, particularly through the conceptual lens of “liquidity”.
She investigates the fluid relationships between people, places, and objects, grounding her research in the issue of land. Her works evoke a sense of calmness, symbolize the resilience of the land and its deep connection to people. Land, in her practice, bears traces of shared existence and embodies the history of material flows within ecosystems.
The role of the body, especially the hands, is a vessel of unspoken meaning. Body language in her work reveals what words cannot: it conveys tradition, social change, and personal history. Through gesture and material, she mirrors the inner life of the subject and the nature of work itself.
EDUCATIONAL:
2024 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2017 Bachelor of Arts in Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
SOLO / DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Leaking Frontier, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2025 Footnotes to Lingering, POINTSMAN, Hong Kong
2023 Restless Resilience, 1999 Art Space, Hong Kong
2021 Silent Whispers, Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme Open Studio, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
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
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:
2025 The Muse Gallery Residency Program, London, United Kingdom
2021 Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2020 Ho Sheung Heung, Sheung Shui, Hong Kong Farmland, Ecological Conservation of Farmland and Education Project, Hong Kong
2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s Telling Stories | The Storyteller of the Water, Nagano, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Muted Hums, Para Site, Hong Kong (Commissioned work)
2025 Navigations in the Flesh, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China
2025 Voices from Elsewhere, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2025 Traces of Home, Asian - UK Dialogues in Art, Ubicua Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2025 Residency Summer Group Show 2025, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2025 Collect Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
2025 The Muse Residency Winter Group Show, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2024 Hazy Horizons, The NOHO Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2024 The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Farringdon, London, United Kingdom
2024 Drawer inside the barlines, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2024 Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree Show 2024, London, United Kingdom
2024 JCCAC Art Basel Parallel Exhibition - A Preface to Magnificence, JCCAC L1 Gallery, Hong Kong
2024 How to Play Hopscotch?, Koppel Collective, London, United Kingdom
2024 Bird of Shape, Tangent Projects, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Interlude, Lewisham Arthouse, London, United Kingdom
2024 Tokens of Remembrance, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2023 The Collectible Art Fair, Jockey Club Atrium & Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2023 Tiger A(r)m Strong Biennale – The Tailed Scar, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
2022 Be 40 Mixed-Media Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2022 Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT( Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong (Commissioned work)
2022 Ngan4+, Hong Kong Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
2021 Gathering of Consciousness, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2021 The29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Geibun-kan, Fukuoka, Japan
2021 Farmland Eco-art Exhibition, Times Square and 1a space, Hong Kong
2020 XX – An Exhibition Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2020 Big wind blows, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2020 The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
CURATORIAL:
2021 Make A Wish Return: Cookery and Art Practice, Community project, Wan Chai District Council, Hong Kong, Curator
2,021 Visual Diary Archive, Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, Co-curator
2019 - 2020 A Page A Wish, XCHANGE: Make Good Make Over, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, Co-curator
CULTURAL EXCHANGE :
2023 Hong Kong Artists Cultural Exchange Programme to Fukuoka, Federation of Asian Artists- Hong Kong Committee
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS, TEACHING, WORKSHOPS, OPEN STUDIO :
2025 Workshop | Object and Material sound recording workshop, Wah Yan College, 7 April 2025
2021 Workshop | Palm of the Universe Workshop, deTour 2021, PMQ, 12 December 2021
2021 Workshop | Tai Po Old Market Public School, 2,16,23 October 2021
2021 Open Studio | Silent Whispers, Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme Open Studio, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 29-31 July 2021
2021 Artist Talks | Higher Diploma in Fine Art Programme Webinar, Hong Kong Art School, 05/06/2021
2021 Studio Visit | Man Mei To, PS Paid Studio Visits, Para Site, Hosted by Celia Ho and Cusson Cheng, 01 February 2021
2019 Workshop | Art Day Camp workshop, Hong Kong Maritime Museum | 18 January 2019
SELECTED AWARDS:
2026 The Hari Art Prize 2026
2023 Slade Bursary Award, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2020 CMHK Professional Development Subsidy, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
2015 Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship (2014/2015)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS :
::: Collections in Soho House
::: Collections in the Primitive Sense Art Festival Executive Committee, Nagano, Japan
::: Collections in X Museum, China
::: Private collections in London, United Kingdom
::: Private collections in San Francisco, United States
::: Private collections in Japan
::: Private collections in Hong Kong
::: Private collections in China
PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCED BY：
2023 第十七期「卡夫卡．審判」, 2023年夏季號, 方圓, 文學及文化專刊, 香港文學館出版
2020 Documentation Zine of A Page A Wish (Oi!, HK)
2020 Tableware making local utensils of A Page A Wish (Oi!, HK)
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Detailed Full CV available on request