Pak Sheung Chuen
Born 1977 in Fujian, China. Lives and works in Hong Kong.
EDUCATION
2002
B.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
M+ Community Pilot Project - L Community, M+ Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2021
Pak Sheung Chuen Horizontal Line / Vertical Line / Square / Circle: 12 Instruction Pieces, gb agency, Paris
2018
Pak Sheung Chuen, Street, Court and Prison, gb agency, Paris
2016
Pak Sheung Chuen: That Light, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China
2012
Killing 3000: Reviewing The Movie From Pak Sheung Chuen’s Perspective, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2010
Response Exhibition 2/2: Hong Kong Diary, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Response Exhibition 1/2: A Travel Without Visual Experience, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2009
Making (Perfect) World at the Hong Kong Exhibition, 53rd Venice Biennale, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2008
Page 22: Half Folded Library, 58th Street Branch, New York Public Library, New York
The Historic City: From Everyday Objects to Eternity, Progetto Diogene, Torino, Italy
2006
Artysta z Hong Kongu, WAA Art Space, Warsaw, Poland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
So It Appears—Group Show, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA
Walking Guides, Long March Independent Space, Beijing
Walking the Crack, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2022
From Southern German Modernity to International Contemporary Art, Daimler Art Collection Mercedes-Benz site Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life, gb agency, Paris
Ce devant quoi, gb agency, Paris, France
Perspectives #02: Les nouvelles œuvres de la collection, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
ΕΜΣΤ, Permanent Collection Hanging, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens
2021
Desert and Define--A Conversation Exhibition by Pak Sheung Chuen & Dustin Shum, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
From Southern German Modernity to International Contemporary Art, Mercedes Benz Art Collection Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Pierre Bal-Blanc: I GOT UP, gb agency, Paris
2020
On the Brink of Borrowed Time: To Stay / To Flee, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
Still Life Objects, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan
Group Exhibition, Taipei Dangdai, Taipei
2019
The D-Tale—Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center, Berlin
Chinese Whispers Recent Art From The Sigg Collection, MAK-Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Sound on the 4th Floor, Mercedes-Benz Contemporary, Berlin
Activity of Matter, gb agency, Paris
La rue. Où le monde se crée, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Replica Of The Original, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Dismantling the Scaffold, Old Baileys Gallery, Hong Kong
The Street. Where the World is Made, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
How To See [What Isn’t There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
Crush, Para-Site, Hong Kong
2017
2ed Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale—Rip It Up!, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen: Two Exhibitions, Para Site, Hong Kong
Tale of the Wonderland, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Chinese Summer, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
2016
Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Discordant Harmony, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Time Of Others, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Australia
Busan Biennale Project 2 - Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, F1963 (KISWIRE Suyeong Factory), Busan, Korea
2015
From a Poem to the Sunset, Mercedes-Benz Contemporary, Berlin
Time of Others, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
To Voice, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
I Want to Dream, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
A Journal Of The Plague Year, Kadist San Francisco, San Francisco
2014
Li Liao, Liu Chuang, No Survivors, Park Sheung Chuen, Yang Xinguang: simple life is interesting!, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
Social Factory—10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
The Traveler’s Note, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Tales from the Taiping Era, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
We Love Video This Summer, Pace Gallery Beijing, Beijing
2013
Lightness—A Clue and Six Faces, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Writings Without Borders, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
2012
Future Exhibition, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
L (Phase I)—TaipeiBiennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2011
Vision of Nature: Lost & Found in Asian Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Crystal City, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Power of Doubt, PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
2010
Museum on Paper: Twelve Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Legacy and Creation—Art vs Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Images, Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
Going Home, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
I’m not Here—An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Biennale Cuvée 10, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
2009
The First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2008
Time Crevasse, The 3rd Yokohama Triennale, Shinko Pier, Yokohama, Japan
Farwell to Post-Colonialism, The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Everyday Anomalies, Phoenix Art Museum, Brighton, United Kingdom
2007
Two or Three Things about Hong Kong, City University Singing Waves Gallery, Hong Kong
China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Reversing Horizons: Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Stranger—Japanese & Hong Kong Artist Exchange Project, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo
Arrivals and Departures: New Art Perspectives of Hong Kong, Urbis, Manchester, United Kingdom
2006
Everywhere—The 6th Busan Biennale, Busan Contemporary Art Museum, Busan, South Korea
A Yellow Box in Qingpu: Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space, Minor West Gate, Shanghai
aWay, 1a Space, Hong Kong
2005
Inward Gazes—Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macau
POWER PLAYS Artists Challenge Authorities, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong
SELECTED AWARDS
2013
Hong Kong Arts Development Council Best Artist Award
2012
Chinese Contemporary Art Awards
Frieze Art Fair
2011
Art Asia Pacific Outstanding Artist and Promising Figure
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Modern, London
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
M+ Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Macao Museum of Modern Art, Macao
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
New York Public Library, New York