Past Residents
Past Resident2014: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Tang Kwok Hin
Tang Kwok Hin’s artworks use erasure to emphasize what remains in a new light. His acts of disfigurement usually result in more figurative meanings than they rub off. In his symbolic collages Tang is particularly concerned about combinations of daily things and the meanings they produce. He is interested in questioning that which is a result of human development, interrogating the existence, rational and usage of such ordinary items as the table and chair.
Tang Kwok Hin (born 1983, Hong Kong) is a mixed media artist, independent curator and writer. He received his MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. He exhibited at 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland; Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009; Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, Switzerland; Esplanade, Singapore; Singapore Art Museum; Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Manila; Busan Cinema Center, South Korea; Kuandu Museum f Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. He was awarded the first prize at Hong Kong Biennale 2009; selected by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2010 and 2011; awarded a Award for Young Artist by Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2010; and a grant by Asian Cultural Council in 2013. His work is in collections in both Europe and Asia.
Tang Kwok Hin, The Weak are Meat II, 2014, Acrylic cabinets and re-packed food packages, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Hong Kong
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Past Resident2014: Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
Yuri Yim
Yuri Yim’s immersive works integrate images, sounds and sensory inputs to stimulate viewers’ participation. Yuri Yim selects sites with the intent to reverse or exploit harsh, and precarious conditions. She creates situations using the simultaneous collection of insignificant events, memories and recording from her quotidian documentation. Yuri Yim’s practice of engaging with her narrative imagination influences the relationships she enters with fictional or real figures, spaces, and things. She builds narratives around unnamed objects and their contacts wherein clandestine relationships between personified things may arise.
Yuri Yim lives in Seoul, Korea. She has been featured in S2, Platform Place 629, 2011; Campfire in the End, Dongduk Women’s University Yeji Hall, 2013; Contributing to Disaster, Art Space Pool, 2014; and the Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon as an artist in residence.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Claudia Chaseling and Yuri Yim
December 9, 2014
Yuri Yim, Convey Spirit by Lips, 2014, Performance with video work. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Véronique Leblanc
Véronique Leblanc is a Montreal based curator and writer interested in context-based practices. Her work typically analyses art practices concerned with issues of otherness and democracy in the context of globalization and art endeavours using documentary material to encourage the viewers to reflect critically on their perceptions or beliefs. Leblanc is drawn to artworks that explore the ways in which identity and ideological constructions are presented in the social sphere. Investigating connections between art, ethics and politics, her curatorial practice gives form to an ongoing reflection about the potential of contemporary art for addressing social, political or cultural issues, while also participating in the production of individual and social imaginaries.
Véronique Leblanc has curated shows featuring the work of Artur Żmijewski, Paul Wiersbinski, Dave Ball, Jean-Pierre Aubé, Patrick Beaulieu, Douglas Scholes, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and ATSA, among others. Her essays have been published in ETC Media, Espace Sculpture, Ciel Variable and Canadian Art, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. She received the Canadian Art Writing Prize in 2011 and participated in the first M&M Curatorial Research Residency Program in Mexico in 2013 (Oboro, Montreal / Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico). Leblanc has an MA in art history from Université du Québec à Montréal, where she now teaches.
Emi Honda & Jordan McKenzie, Éolienne souterraine, 2013, Site specific installation. Courtesy of the artists, co-curated by Dominique Allard. Photo courtesy of Jean-Sébastien Veilleux.
