AU Hoi Lam graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MFA 2004, MPhil in Philosophy 2009). She has been creating art since the early 2000s, focusing on drawing and painting. She also likes exploring text art and installation art.
AU’s work is gentle and calm, using the language of painting to express profound but subtle ideas and emotions, embodying the delicate relationship between the individual and the lifeworld. She devotes herself to introspective thoughts and craftsmanship: capturing the ephemerals; exploring the relationships between text, time and space; contemplating the ways artwork exists; practising memento, reminiscence and forgetting. Depending on the subject matter, her works sometimes have unforeseen leaps in appearance, revealing undercurrents of paradox.
AU has been awarded the Alexandre Yersin Excellence Scholarship (Consulate General of France, 2001), Hong Kong Arts Development Awards - Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) (Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 2013) and New York Fellowship (Asian Cultural Council, 2019). Her works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+, University of Cambridge and private collections.
AU has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Au Hoi Lam: Painting, Its Reasons to Be (Hanart TZ Gallery 2024), The Dimensions of Living: A House is (JCCAC Gallery, Hong Kong 2020), From Ocean to Horizon (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art [CFCCA], Manchester 2017), Interval in Space (Contemporary Art Center NAIRS, Scuol 2017), Au Hoi Lam: Memorandum ( _____ )(Art Basel Hong Kong, 2016), Au Hoi Lam, solo at Osage Gallery in Start Art Fair 2015 (Saatchi Gallery, London 2015), IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art: A Time for Dream (Museum of Moscow, 2014), Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean. Shanghai Postscript (Osage Gallery, Shanghai 2014), Time Traveler – Au Hoi Lam & Sara Tse (Espace Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong 2014), Art Cologne 2014 (Koelnmesse GmbH, Cologne 2014), Woman-Home: In the Name of Asian Female Artists (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2014), Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean (Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 2013), OPEN 15. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations (Lido, Venice 2012), Art:gwangju 2012 (KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju 2012), Reversing Horizons: Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary (Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2007), among others.
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