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 and will return to Svalbard to continue her research in 2026 .
Her works have garnered many local and international awards, including the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize, Merit (gallery category) Illustration West 63 with The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (2025) and semifinalist for the Print Center’s 98th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, USA (2024.) Her projects have received multiple grant awards including Canada Arts Council, Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Pure Art Foundation, Hong Kong.
She has held solo exhibitions at local and international museums, galleries, and alternative spaces including Sin Sin Fine Art (2025), Hong Kong Art Centre (2023), the national museum Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria (2022), Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2019) and Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, USA (2018) among others.
Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals and she has participated in many 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.)
Fung lives and works in Hong Kong.
"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