Michelle Fung 馮捲雪 (b. 1982)
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung's lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084. In fall 2022, she travelled to the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen, and arctic Svalbard to conduct research for her imaginary arctic country Northlandia. Michelle explores environmental issues such as air pollution, marine plastic pollution and climate change using different art forms: books, drawings, woodcut, animation, installation, performances and beyond.
She had held solo exhibitions at Hong Kong Art Centre (2023), the national museum Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria as the invited guest artist of the Quarantine Film Festival (2022), leading artist-run galleries in Australia (2019) and California (2018), as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019.)
Her works have garnered many local and international awards, including semifinalist for the Print Center’s 98th Annual International Competition (Philadelphia, USA) and the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize. Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals and she has participated in many international residencies including Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China (2023), the Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard (2022), Art Omi, NY, USA (2016) and Banff Centre, Canada (2010.)
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Michelle Fung 馮捲雪 (b. 1982)
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung's lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084. She had a recent solo exhibition at the national museum Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria as the invited guest artist of the Quarantine Film Festival (2022) and has held recent solo exhibitions at leading artist-run galleries in Australia (2019) and California (2018), as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019.)
Her works have garnered many local and international awards, including the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize. . Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals and she has participated in many prestigious international residencies including Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China (2023), the Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard (2022), Art Omi, NY, USA (2016) and Banff Centre, Canada (2010.)
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Michelle Fung 馮捲雪 (b. 1982)
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung's lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084. Her works have been presented extensively in international museums, galleries and university exhibitions and film festivals.
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"Michelle is devoted to her art practice and the visionary world of 2048 she has created. It is an epic thought-provoking tale that reflects the dreams and despair of the world we live in. She ingeniously combines contemporary issues with various traditional artmaking techniques in her works.
In 2019, we worked with Michelle to realize with her the solo exhibition at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, featuring works from the award-winning series “Plastic, plastic, everywhere!”. It involved setting up a large hand-painted mural, with over thirty pieces of original artworks displayed at two unconventional exhibition venues on campus. The collaboration was superbly efficient and smooth on all ends. We are excited to collaborate again for her solo exhibition at Varna City Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Bulgaria in 2022.
Michelle’s art world not only shows empathy and imagination for viewers, but it is also insightful for those who have been involved in the making process."
Hilda Chan & Iven Cheung
Curators of MUSTHAVEKEYS