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BIOGRAPHY

 

Michelle LEE Ho-wing obtained Master of Fine Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Having an affiliation with Floating Projects, she conceives a framework through social research and creative practices with a variety of media. As an educator, she encompasses responsibility to inspire learners by incorporating autonomous, serendipity and intuition in art learning.

Michelle’s research focuses on the historical space of library, and the circulation of the looted library books in placement. She establishes rhizomatic interpretations that resonates with the original archival materials and social circumstances. Her projects include (Trans)Media Painting and Drawing, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich (2017), Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, S. Korea (2018) , Café do Brasil, Para Site, Hong Kong (2019), Waley Galay Art Artist-in-residency open call, Taipei, Taiwan (2022), To the Ordinary People Walking in Wanhua, Taipei, Taiwan (2022 – 2023) .

EDUCATION

2018     Master of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2006     BA (Hons) in Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2005     Participated in reciprocal Exchange program to study at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

The Liminality of X, Waley Art, Taipei​

2019

​Exit Strategies, H Queen's, Hong Kong (as member of the Floating Projects Collective)

2018

Made to be Filled in, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Back to the Void, Floating Projects, Hong Kong

Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Seoul, South Korea (as collective member of Archive of the People)
Floating Projects 2.0 Opening Marathon, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
Fine Art Asia 2018, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

Food Matters, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

 

2017

It Flows Until It Doesn't, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Fine Art Asia 2017, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

(Trans)Medial Drawing and Painting, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich

Empathy Park, CMC Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong

 

2016

Fine Art Asia 2016, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

 

2013

Detached Oeuvre, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

Painting On and On: Intertextuality 4, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

 

2011
The Reading Room: Exhibition of Lee Ho Wing and Lee Kai Chung, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

2010

Lui Chun Kwong. You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun Hei, Osage Gallery Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

2007-2011
Fotanian Open Studios, Fo Tan, Hong Kong

 

2007
Talkover/Handover - Dialogues on Hong Kong Art 10 Years After 1997, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong

 

2006
PasTry: Graduation Exhibition of CUHK Fine Arts Department, West-wing Galleries, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong KongAmusement Park: Joint Exhibition of Lee Ho Wing Michelle, Fok Sau Ha Flora, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, Chin Po Ki and Law Yuk Mui, Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong


2005
The Chiascuro Show: Joint Exhibition of Live Matter Class, Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Above the Rainbow: Joint Exhibition of Lee Ho Wing Michelle and Young Jee Kim”, Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Painthings: Joint Exhibition of Lee Ho Wing Michelle, Si Won Lee and Lev Khessine, Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

 

COLLECTION

Private collection (Hong Kong, USA)
Annie Wong Leung Kit Wah Art Foundation

GRANT
Arts Development Fund (Cultural Exchange Project), Home Affairs Bureau, 2018

Professor Mayching Kao Fine Arts Award, Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018 

Research Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Academic Activities, Graduate School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016-2017

Support Fine Art Fund, Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016

SELECTED AWARDS

Judges Prize in Impression-Eileen Chang-Inaugural Painting Award, 2010
Ramon Woon Creative Prize, 2006

2010 - present

2010 - present

© 2017 Lee Ho Wing Michelle all right reserved

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