MAN MEI TO
MAN MEI TO
(b.1990)
Live in Hong Kong
Man’s artworks tell stories with materials as the point of departure, and delves into various mediums on a technical level. Through observing the intimacy of the body, she explores urban vistas, life under urbanisation, and transient things. Her works aim to raise awareness of the existence of all kinds of beings as well as the connections between their fragility and silence by objectifying, cloning, reconstructing, or quantifying elements found in everyday life.
Man Mei To obtained her Bachelor of Arts at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and Hong Kong Arts School in 2017, majoring in painting. Man has held a number of solo exhibitions since 2016, including “Laundry Shop” (A walk with A3, Hong Kong, 2016), “The Distance of Space” (Floating Projects, Hong Kong, 2018), and “Sediment and Undercurrent” (ACO Art Space, Hong Kong, 2019). Man is the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists' Studio Residency 2021. She has also participated in numerous local and international group exhibitions, including “Primitive Sense Art festival” (Omachi City, Nagano, Japan, 2016), “Ensemble” (VT Artsalon, Taipei, 2017), “Zoo as Metaphor (2)”(Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong, 2018), “Big wind blows” (Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, 2020), and “The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2020), among others.
EDUCATIONAL:
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
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:
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, Art Together Limited, 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT( Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) by MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong
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 ngan4-Sculpture exhibition, Pat Heung Farm, Yuen Long, Hong Kong
2021 Dear Babies, House by Kubrick, Hong Kong
2021 Farmland Eco-art Exhibition, Times Square, 1a space, Hong Kong
2020 XX – An Exhibition Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
2020 Big wind blows, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2020 The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
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
2018 Gwangju International Art Fair 2018|Art Together Limited, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea
2018 Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2018 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
2017 Ensemble, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 As the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Project, 1a space, Hong Kong
2016 Decongestion of West Kowloonization – Soil. Play, C&G Artpartment, Nullah Road, Sitting-out area, Prince Edward, 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
2016 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
2015 Fresh Trend 2015 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Central, Hong Kong
2015 An Aeroplane community art exhibition on stories of Kowloon City, ‘’Write me a letter when you arrive...’’, Kowloon City Street, Hong Kong
2015 A/AN “ “, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2015, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2015 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
2013 BOING! - pop-up art market, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 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
CURATED PROJECT, CO - CURATED PROJECT:
2021 Make A Wish Return: Cookery and Art Practice, BLACK MOON, Wan Chai District Council, Wan Chai District Office, Hong Kong
2021 Visual Diary Archive - Images Co-create Platform, Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme,
Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
2019 - 2020 A Page A Wish | XCHANGE: Make Good Make Over, Activity Room 1, Oil Street Art Space
Art Promotion Office, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 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
OTHER:
2020-2021 Homeopathic Medicine, Hong Kong Academy of Homeopathy
2021 Art Specialist Advanced Course ( Sculpture ), Hong Kong Visual Art Centre
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