Artist

Pak Sheung Chuen

Born in Fujian, 1977 and lives in Hong Kong

Pak Sheung Chuen is a Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist interested in calibrating and transforming uncontrollable variables. Chance encounters, conversations and discovery all play a part in his projects, which reveal to him and his audience something about the nature of social engagement each time.Born in 1977 in Fujian, China, Pak immigrated to Hong Kong before the Handover in the 1980s. His current work is drawn from the pre- and post worlds of the Handover in Hong Kong, as well as South East Asia’s history of performance art. For his series “Waiting for A Friend (Without An Appointment” (2006), he stood outside a train station in Hong Kong until he recognised someone walking out, and in “Going Home” (2010), he stood in a museum lobby asking people if they would invite him into their homes. At the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, Pak presented four of his series with the linking theme of viewing the world through an artist’s, or creative’s lens.He was awarded the Best Artist title in the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Beijing, in 2012 and the Frieze Best Stand Price award at Frieze Art Fair, London, in 2012.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Mobile M+: Live Art
M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for 20th and 21st-century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural...
04 Dec 2015 - 20 Dec 2015
Various locations in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Exhibitions
Live Art 1995-2015
Bringing together five artists from Hong Kong, southern China, and the United States, this group exhibition...
06 Dec 2015 - 20 Dec 2015
Exhibition Hall, Sheung Wan Civic Centre
Hong Kong
Exhibitions
The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean
Esther Schipper presents “The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean”, a group exhibition curated...
20 Jan 2017 - 25 Feb 2017
Berlin
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