YIM Sui Fong

Solo Exhibitions and Projects:

1. A Room of Resistance, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2019  
2. The man who attends to the times, project supported by Oi!, Hong Kong, 2018
3. Everything seems the hint when you get lost, Muriwai Earthskin Residency, Auckland, New Zealand, 2016
4. a story about collecting stories, Cheng Ming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011
5. Wandering Channel, Bridge Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2005

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:

1. Koon Man Space by Hong Kong International Photo Festival, Hong Kong, 2024
2. Irregular Plural – Commune, WMA Space, Hong Kong, 2023
3. Emo Gym, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2022   
4. THE WALL Reunion or Divide, SomoS, Berlin, Germany, 2022    
5. Hangover Haunted & Their Lost Futures, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong, 2022
6. HONG KONG VIDEO NIGHT, During Museumsnacht Basel, Atelier Mondial and PF25 cultural projects, Basel, Switzerland, 2022
7. 他山之木, Y Park,  Hong Kong, 2021 
8. The Body and The City, Goethe Institute,  Hong Kong, 2021
9. HOMELAND in TRANSIT through the clouds, Ein Fenster inmitten der Welt, Murrhardt, Germany, 2021
10. HOMELAND in TRANSIT through the clouds, Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2021
11. Can’t Touch This, WMA Space,  Hong Kong, 2021
12. https://visualizingthevirus.com/entry/avatar/, 2021 
13. An Individual As the Society, Cattle Depot No.8, Hong Kong, 2021
14. Liminal Space, organised by 1a space at Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2021 
15. Year of the Pig, audiovisual streaming at https://aashra.ashkalalwan.org, 2021 
16. BOOKED special project, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2021
17. Charta Photo-book festival, Rome, Italy, 2021
18. Photography as a Practice of Seeing : FotobooKfest Oslo, Norway, 2021
19. Photobook Week Aarhus, Denmark, 2021
20. Otherworlds: non/digital realities, Gillman Barracks, Singapore Art Week, Singapore, 2021
21. Still Life Objects, Hong Kong House at Echigo-Tsumari, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, 2020
22. Landskrona Foto Festival,  Landskrona Art Gallery, Sweden, 2020
23. Crossing Border Border Crossing International Festival of Intermedia,  JCCAC 3/F 4/F common space, Hong Kong, 2020
24. Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2019
25. The Situation of Learning, Our Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
26. Only Connect Osaka, Creative Center Osaka, 2019
27. The Wall, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong, 2019
28. Gallery Week Beijing 2019 “Emerging Artist Series”, Beijing 798 Art Centre, China, 2019
29. hic sunt leones, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China, 2019
30. River Without Buoys 1979, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China, 2019
31. WMA Masters Award  2017/18- Transition, Gallery of Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong, 2018
32. Artists’ Film International Part III 2018, organised by Whitechapel Gallery, screening at Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden, 2018
33. coming soon, curated by Lara van Meeteren and Bart Wissink, Bangkok Biennial, Thailand, 2018
34. Talkover/Handover 2.0, 1 a Space, Hong Kong, 2017
35. Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize Exhibition 2017, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2017
36. CUHK Fine Arts Department 60th Anniversary Feature Exhibition, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong,
37. Koki Tanaka’s Precarious Tasks #9: 24hrs Gathering (Timeline), Spring Workshop, Hong Kong,
38. Here, Casphalt, Hong Kong, 2017
39. Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016
40. HACK, Before・After, Oi!, Hong Kong, 2015
41. Jiang Ling – An Artistic and Humanistic Practice with On-site Interpretation and Regeneration, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Wuhan, China, 2015
42. what unimaginable forms, Comix Home Base, Hong Kong, 2015
43. Tales from the Taiping Era, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China (L+: Pak Sheung Chuen + Yim Sui Fong) , 2014
44. Disappearing Photography Tour (L+: Pak Sheung Chuen, Wo Man Yee, Lee Soen Long and Yim Sui Fong), 2014
    – Hong Kong New Territories session: September 9, 2014 (Organizer: Hong Kong Commercial Radio Project) Japan
    – Fukushima session: September 9, 2014 (Organizer: Arafudo Art Annual 2014)
    – Taiwan Taipei sessions: December 26, December 17, December 20, 2014 (exhibition: “Here is where we meet – an exhibition on participatory art”, organizer: Museum of Contemporary Art,Taipei)

Curatorship:

1. Attic Lab, social practice art programme by Fine Arts Department, CUHK, 2024
2. 1^st edition of Tiger Armstrong Biennale, curated by Rooftop Institute, organised by HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong, 2023
3. Our Everyday, Our Border, co-curated with Law Yuk-mui and Frank Vigneron, presented by Rooftop Institute, organised by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2018-2019
4. Neptune Terrance, co-curated with Inti Guerrero, Neptune, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, 2016

1. Co-editor, Event Scores 2 –  Ideas between Artist-Parents and Their Kids publication project, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2023
2. work published in Photoworks Annual 28, UK, 2022
3. Co-editor, Event Scores by Artist-Parents publication project, supported by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Arts Relief Scheme, 2021
4. Momentary Glimpses: An Anthology on Contentedness, publication project by Folium, edited by JJ Chan, 2019
5. The man who attends to the times, supported by Oi!, 2018
6. Planning and Research, Made in Shek Kip Mei, exhibition and research catalogue, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2009

1. Respondent of the talk: Methodologies of Imagination: Field Notes from Kyrgyzstan, organised by Asian Art Archive, Hong Kong, 2024 link
2. Rapporteur, Listening Academy, organised by soundpocket, 2024 link
3. Guest Speaker, lecture on socially engaged practice for MA Performance: Society; Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2024Speaker, Artist-parents’ ideas: alternative ways for parents, organised by Artomity at Art Basel Hong Kong Exchange Circle, 2024
4. Guest Speaker, Shared Campus 2023: (un)learning socially engaged art in Hong Kong, organised by Academy of Visual Arts, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2023
5. Artist Sharing: sound, participation, and publicness, Sonic-Visual Interplay – Programme of NME15, organised by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, 2023
6. Guest Speaker, Art Education Network Roundtable, organised by Asia Art Archive, 2023
7. Guest Speaker, Collective School x Collective Failure, co-presented by Asia Art Archive and Goethe-Institut Hongkong, 2022
8. Guest Lecturer, RMIT’s Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) program, Hong Kong, 2021, 2022
9. Guest Speaker, Landskrona Foto Artistic Director Monica Allende in conversation with artists Lee Kai Chung and Yim Sui Fong, 2020    
10. Guest Speaker, Kowloon City Co-operation Housing Documentary Exhibition and talk, 2020    
11. Guest Speaker, Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018, organised by Green Papaya Art Projects and 98B COLLABoratory, Philippines, 2018  
12. Guest Speaker, Art After Hour : : “Our Everyday – Our Borders” Artists’ Talk, organised by Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2018    
13. Guest Speaker, Performance = action x art ?, organised by The Art of CUHK, Hong Kong, 2018    
14. Guest Speaker, From [Vanishing] to [Creation] : A Dialogue about Urban Transition, public programme organised by WYNG Foundation, 2018  
15. Guest Speaker, Fresh Trend Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, organised by Hong Kong Art Network, Hong Kong, 2015
16. Artist’s talk, Art in Action, organised by Meridian Space, Beijing, China, 2014

1. 2024.12.02- 2024.12.04
   Listening to Chaos: Sound, Labor, and Neurodiversity in Art Practice – Bridging Cultural Analytics and Art Practice: Insights from Hong Kong Cases, by Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research 2024; Swedish Research Council, UmArts Research Centre, Umeå University, Umeå Kommun, Umeå Transformation Research Initiative (UTRI), The Communications Office, Umeå University
2. 2024.12.05- 2024.12.06
   Joint-paper presented at Ecologies of Participation – Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City
3. Unlearning Realities – Reimagining Futures: A symposium exploring cultures, histories and futures, organised by Learning, Teaching and Research – LASALLE in collaboration with the Cultures – Histories and Futures theme group of Shared Campus, Singapore, 2023

Rooftop Institute:

1. Project director, 12-12 long durational artist-led engaged learning workshop, 2022-2023
2. Co-editor, Event Scores by Artist-Parents, 2021, 2023
3. Deputy project director, RT5 Creative Research, 2020-2021
4. Deputy project director, Hok Hok Zaap: 15 Initiatives of Engaged Learning in Art, 2019-2020              
5. Deputy project director, Hok Zaap, 2018-2019
6. Deputy project director, Asia Seed, 2016-2018
7. Deputy project director, Jit Ze – Asian Film and Video Screening, 2016

HASS Lab:

1. Artist consultant, SEN-Visual-Diary Workshop, organised by C.C.C. Mongkok Church Kai Oi School, 2023

1. Artist-in-Residence Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Cultural Management BA Programme, 2023
2. CAMP – Arts Educators in Residence, organised by documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, 2022
3. Muriwai Earthskin Residency, New Zealand, 2016
4. PASCA, Pont Aven, France, 2006

AWARD

1. Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) 2019/2020 from Hong Kong Development Council, 2021
2. Silver Medal Winner, The 1st Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award, Hong Kong, 2021
3. WMA Masters Award 2017/18, WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong, 2018   
4. PASCA Fellowship, Annie Wong Art Foundation, 2006

NOMINATION

1. Foam Paul Huf Nominee, 2022
2. On the Road, Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists Works & Forum of Young Art Critic, Nominee, 2019
3. Finalist of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2017, Justice Centre Hong Kong, 2017 

JURY

1. Jury of WMA Open 2019, organised by WYNG Foundation, 2018, 2019

Academic Research

1. 1. 2024.06.01- 2025.05.31
      Resounding Relationships: A Study of Sound Art, Participation, and Cohabitation (Project code:4051256), funded by Direct Grants, CUHK. Grant obtained as PI.
   2. 2024.06.01- 2025.05.31
      A Response to Hong Kong’s Arts Tech Policy: Shifting the Narrative on Art and Technology to Reconsider Cultural Development (Project code: 4051253), funded by Direct Grants, CUHK. Grant obtained as Co-I.
   3. 2024.09.01- 2025.12.31
      Practice-as-Research: Producing Knowledge Through Participatory Creative Practice (Project code: 5502041), by Faculty of Arts, CUHK – Self-financed Programme Reserves for Research – Research Institute for the Humanities. Grant obtained as PI.
   4. 2024.11.01- 2025.04.30
      Visual research into the community, ecology, and cultural heritage at Chuen Lung, organized by Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association Limited; funded by 10th-round funding exercise of Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme. Grant obtained as PI.

Pedagogical Research

1. 2024.02.01-2026.06.30
   Future Leaders in Digital Humanities Fellows Scheme (Project code:3200258), supported by Faculty of Arts, CUHK. Grant obtained as PI.
2. 2024.04.01-2025.11.30
   Funding Scheme to support pedagogical research – Exploring the Impact of Socially Engaged Art Theory and Practice on Asia Exchange Teaching and Learning Pilot Model (Project code:4171130), funded by University Grants Committee (UGC) – Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for 2022-2025 Triennium. Grant obtained as PI.
3. 2024.06.01- 2025.12.01
   Enhancing Digital Competency for Fine Arts Department (Project code:3200346), funded by UGC Earmarked Project – Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE) – Funding Scheme for Promoting Innovative Technology in Education. Grant obtained as PI.