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Gayle Chong Kwan

http://www.gaylechongkwan.com
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biography

Gayle Chong Kwan is based in London and has shown extensively in the UK and abroad. Aswell as a BA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art, she has a MSc in Communications from Stirling University and a BA in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University.

Gayle Chong Kwan was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2007 at Bloomberg SPACE, London. She is represented by Galerie Kernot, Paris, and Galleria Uno + Uno, Milan.

statement

Gayle Chong Kwan creates mythical mise-en-scene landscapes, installations, and environments out of disturbing arrangements of waste, food and found materials. Her work refers to Romanticism, early experiments in photography and contemporary tourism and trade, to explore ideas of collective and individual memory, history and expanded notions of the senses. She works with photography, video, sound, installation, and performance.

Recent exhibitions include: ‘Tales from the New World’, 10th Havana Biennial, Cuba; 5×5 Castelló 09, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Spain; British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1966-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; ‘Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy’, ArtSway, New Forest, UK; ‘At Your Service’, David Roberts Foundation, London; ‘Pot Luck’, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; ‘Memoryscape Moravia’, Centro Cultural de Moravia, Medellin, Colombia; 'New London School in Berlin' at Galerie Schuster, Berlin; Government Art Fund’, British Ambassador's Residence, Paris; ‘Cantilever’, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London Festival of Architecture, London; ‘The Land of Peach Blossoms’, Graves Gallery, Sheffield; ‘Utopia’, Museu Berardo, Centro Cultural do Belem, Lisbon; ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, Platform for Art, London; ‘Different Worlds’, National Portrait Gallery, London; ‘Follies’, La Villette, Paris; ‘Cockaigne’, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester; European Forum Emerging Creation, Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg; ‘Stellar Dentrite’, Tatton Park Biennial, Manchester.

Awards include: Vauxhall Collective Award for Photography 2009; Pepinieres Europeenes Pour Jeunes Artistes Award; Arts Council England International Fellow. Residencies include: Coast International Residency, A Foundation, Liverpool; Venice Printmaking, Italy; Macroproyecto de Moravia, Colombia; Ricefield/Scottish Arts Council Residency, Glasgow; UNIDEE Residency, Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy; Pepinieres/Ville de Paris Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts de Paris, Paris.