Michelle Fung 馮捲雪 (b. 1982)
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung's lifelong oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084, presenting a fictional geopolitical map of a bizarre future in the Anthropocene. 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.)
Fung has been awarded with multiple grants with Canada Arts Council, Pure Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau and Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her works have garnered awards including Film that Matters, the Animaze Animation Film Festival, Canada (2019), 50 Best Books for Secondary Students, Hong Kong Professional Teacher's Union (2018), winner of Young Writer's Debut Competition, Hong Kong (2017), the Grotto Award, Hong Kong Baptist University (2015) and Award of Excellence, Fourth Greater China Illustration Awards (2012 and 2016.) Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals and she has participated in 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.)
She holds a BFA, The University of British Columbia, Canada and MVA, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Her works are in international private collections and in Art Omi Archive, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macao SAR Government, Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca (National Art Museum), Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Canada Art Bank.
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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. 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