Leung Chi Wo Warren

Warren Leung Chi Wo (Chinese: 梁志和; born 1968) is a Hong Kong visual artist and a current associate professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong His forms of works mainly range from photography, installation, paintings and videos. Leung was also one of the co-founders of Para Site in Hong Kong—which was established in early 1996 and was the first exhibition-making institution of contemporary art in local sense.

Education and career

Warren Leung Chi Wo was born in 1968 in Hong Kong. Leung graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1990. He obtained a Post-Diploma (Culture of Photography) from Istituto per lo Sviluppo Socio-Economico dello Spilimberghese, Italy and later as the Center for Research and Archiving of Photography there in 1991. Leung also participated in a museum Internship in Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, 1992. In 1997, he graduated with his Master of Fine Arts from Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Selected works

Leung is interested in exploring city and the underlying history—to look deep into the complex relation between reality and perceptions. He used photographs to capture and archive the moments in history in order to restoring individual's identity.

Photography

• ‘He Was Lost Yesterday and We Found Him Today’, 2010. C-print, 100x150cm.

Installation

• 'Always Gentian Blue Sky', Switzerland, 2003, site-specific project in public space.
• 'Suck+Blow', Shanghai, 2001–2003, video installation.
• 'Playing football above the mini-football court in Kwang Yuen Estate, Shatin', 2001, a perplex sculpture.

Others

• 'Sign', 2008. Video HDV PALm 13 min.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Press the Button... Leung Chi Wo: A Survey Exhibition, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2015
• Museum of the Lost (in collaboration with Sara Wong), Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015
• So I don't really know sometimes if it's because of culture, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, 2014
• Bright light has much the same effect as ice, 2P, Hong Kong, 2013
• Jonathan & Muragishi, ISCP, New York, 2013
• Leung Chi Wo, Rokeby, London, 2012
• Untitled, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2012
• Something about education but not exactly..., Esplanade, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, 2011
• There From Here, site-specific project, Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices Building, Hong Kong, 2011
• (Inter)Viewing Possession, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, 2009
• Depot of Disappearance, AiR base, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, 2009
• In the Name of Victoria, IndexG, Toronto, 2009
• Asia's World City, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong, 2009
• In the Name of Victoria, Korkos Gallery, Hong Kong, 2008
• LKS_Select: Leung Chi Wo, Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, 2008
• Text Format, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2007
• Open Home, a sound installation in domestic space, Hong Kong, 2007
• Domestica Invisibile, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong, 2006
• Open Home, a sound installation in domestic space, presented by S-AIR, Sapporo, 2005
• Where is Hong Kong?, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2003
• Color Series, Zetterquist Galleries, New York, 2003
• City Mapping: Rough Cuts, Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, 2003
• City Cookie (in collaboration with Sara Wong), Gallery 44, Toronto, 2003
• Always Gentian Blue Sky, Site-specific work in public space, Sierre, Switzerland, 2003
• City Cookie (in collaboration with Sara Wong), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, 2001
• Something about city sky, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2000
• Victoria Tunnel, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 1998
• Mapping the Invisible, Fringe Club, Hong Kong, 1998

Group exhibitions

• China 8, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, 2015
• La Fotografia e la Contemporaneità, Palazat, Cavasso Nuovo, Pordenone (Italy), 2015
• South by Southeast, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015
• Discordant Harmony, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2015
• From Longing to Belonging, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (Poland), 2014
• Harmonious Society, Asia Triennial Manchester, 2014
• The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2014
• Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies, Hanart Square, Hong Kong, 2014
• Crossroads, Another Dimension: A Cross-Strait Four Regions Artistic Exchange Project, Hong Kong City Hall, Oil Street Art Space, 2014
• Long time no see, Victoria, Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, 2014
• Foreign Presence, Duddell's, Hong Kong, 2014
• Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s – Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Para Site, Hong Kong, 2013
• Hermit's Springs: Calligraphy, Landscape Painting & Garden-making, Museum of West Lake Expo, Hangzhou, 2013
• Crossroads, Another Dimension: A Cross-Strait Four Regions Artistic Exchange Project, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen; Handover Gifts Museum of Macao; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2013
• Anonymities, Lumen Visum, Hong Kong, 2013
• On Hong Kong, Photohub_Manometr, Moscow, 2013
• Absurdistan, OV Gallery, Shanghai, 2013
• On Hong Kong, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre (Russia), 2012
• The Unseen, Guangzhou Triennial (China), 2012
• Men Amongst the Ruins, TEOR/éTica, San José (Costa Rica), 2012
• Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennale (Morocco), 2012
• Different Dimension, International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Novosibirsk State Museum of Art (Russia), 2012
• Do a Book, White Space, Beijing, 2012
• The Burning Edge: Making Space, Activating Form, RRS Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, 2012
• Forgotten Places, OV Gallery, Shanghai, 2011
• The Border Show, site-specific project in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, 2011
• Double Happiness, Meet Factory, Prague, 2011
• Refracted Realities, OV Gallery, Shanghai, 2011
• Other Possible Worlds, NGBK, Berlin, 2011
• Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao (China), 2011
• White Walls Have Ears, RRS Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, 2011
• The Dig, Centre A, Vancouver, 2010
• Culture(s) of Copy, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong; Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, 2010
• You Are Here, I Am Not. Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 2010
• City Flâneur, Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, 2010
• Shifting Topography, Hanart Square, Hong Kong, 2010
• No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, 2010
• The Problem of Asia, Chalk Horse, Sydney, 2010
• Tamagawa Art Line Project, Tokyo, 2010
• New Vision: New Colours, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2010
• This is Hong Kong, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Kunsthalle Vienna, 2010
• Regreen Arts, Regreen Base, Yamanashi, Japan, 2009
• Beginning, Middle and End, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2009
• PAWNSHOP, The Shop, Beijing, 2009
• From 2D to 3D, Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2009
• Dwelling, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2009
• This is Hong Kong, Loop09, Casa Àsia, Barcelona; Alternative Space Loop, Seoul; Subvision Festival, Hamburg; EastSide Projects, Birmingham; ifa Gallery, Berlin; Map Office, Hong Kong, 2009
• Louis Vuitton: a Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2009
• Paradise is elsewhere, ifa Galleries, Stuttgart/ Berlin, 2009
• In Other Words, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2009
• Living Colours, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2009
• HK Sound Station, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 2009
• Excuse me, are you famous? Invaliden1, Berlin, 2009
• Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2008
• Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
• Lights Out, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, 2008
• 3500 cm2 - Art poster exhibition, uqbar, Berlin, 2008
• Asia Art Knots, Open Space, Art Cologne; Para/Site, Hong Kong, 2008
• Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, 2008
• Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Old Central Police Station, Hong Kong, 2008
• South China: Special Arts Region, Kubas, Munich, 2007
• Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China, 2007
• TimeLine; human speed & technology speed, Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, 2007
• (Im)personal Space, H Gallery, Bangkok, 2007
• Time After Time, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong, 2007
• Pearl River City, Kunstverein, Hamburg, 2007
• Reversing Horizons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2007
• Talkover/Handover: Dialogues on Hong Kong Art 10 Years After 1997, 1a Space, Hong Kong, 2007
• The Reading Records of City, M Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing, 2007
• The Pearl River Delta, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 2007
• Para/Site Portfolio – 1/xx: Hong Kong flat, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 2007
• Read Différance, Fo Tan, Hong Kong, 2006
• 3500 cm2: art poster project, Blueroom, Rome, 2006
• Publicly Private, Spazio Paraggi, Treviso (Italy), 2006
• Busan Biennale, Busan (Korea), 2006
• A Yellow Box in Qingpu: Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space, Xiao Ximen, Shanghai, 2006
• The Pearl River Delta (touring), Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden(Germany); Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, 2006
• A Realm with No Coordinates, 1a Space, Hong Kong; Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, 2006
• Close Distance, Plymouth Art Centre (UK), 2006
• The Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2005
• S-AIR_ASIA: Ah-Bin Shim + Leung Chi Wo, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, Japan, 2005
• Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2005
• In the Deep of Reality: A Case of Chinese Contemporary Art, Basement of Tianyu Apartment, Hangzhou, China, 2005
• A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland, 2005
• Island Art Film & Video Festival, UGC Cinema, London, 2005
• Contemporary Asian Art, Zetterquist Galleries, New York, 2005
• Scan, MAAP in Singapore, The Substation, Singapore, 2004
• Neither East nor West: Hong Kong Contemporary Art, East-West Center Gallery, Honolulu, 2004
• In Touch with Visual Arts, Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 2004
• East West RetroArtive, Art Statements, Hong Kong, 2004
• Wake up! Photography is art, Art Statements, Hong Kong, 2004
• Intimate Re-collection, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2004
• Fridge, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2004
• Id-map, Real-scape: Leung Chi Wo & Sara Chi Hang Wong, Gallery TEZZ, Tokyo, 2004
• Para/Site: Open Work, Centre A, Vancouver, 2004
• Behold! God...., John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong, 2004
• Local Accent: 12 artists from Hong Kong, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 2003
• SHINXUS«multiple, Gallery TEZZ, Tokyo, 2003
• Mapping Asia, Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, 2003
• A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Rudolfinum, Prague, 2003
• Interrupt, Singapore Art Museum, 2003
• 4th Festival des Cinéma Différents de Paris, cultural centre La Clef, Paris, 2002
• Motorik, COURTisane Kortfilmfestival, Ghent, 2002
• Zheng/Fan, Pottery Workshop, Shanghai, 2002
• Paris-Pekin: contemporary Chinese art collection of Myriam and Guy Ullens, Espace Cardin, Paris, 2002
• Four Focuses: Four Hong Kong Photographers, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2002
• Moving Violations, Red Dog International, Hong Kong, 2002
• World Cup Through Art, Chosun Ilbo Art Center & Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, 2002
• Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (Korea), 2002
• Social Club, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 2002
• If I had a dream......: Chinese / German Art Exhibition, Hong Kong Central Library, 2001
• Re-Considered crossings: representation beyond hybridity, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, 2001
• Hyphenation: Contemporary Hong Kong Art, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2001
• Microwave International Media Art Festival 2001, City Hall, Hong Kong, 2001
• Pinhole Vision, Temporary Exhibition Gallery of Provisional Municipal Council of Macau, 2001
• Hong Kong Exhibition—Magic at Street Level, Venice Biennale, 2001
• Hot Pot: Contemporary Chinese Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2001
• Polypolis: Contemporary Art from Asia Pacific Megacities, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2001
• Landscape Project, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong, 2001
• Contemporary Hong Kong Art 2000, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2000
• Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, 2000
• Clockwork 2000, Clocktower Gallery of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2000
• City Detour, OP Fotogallery, Toronto, 2000
• ARTscope Hong Kong, Morphes2000, Tokyo; City University of Hong Kong, 2000
• Happy 00, Video in Public Space Project, Graz, Austria, 1999
• Open Studio Exhibition, International Studio Program, New York, 1999
• Three Photographers: Leung Chi Wo, Laurence Aberhart & So Hing Keung, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong, 1999
• On Hong Kong: An Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, City Hall, Hong Kong, 1998
• Transaction (part of the Next Wave Festival), West Space, Melbourne, 1998
• Coffee Shop, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 1998
• Exhibition 6.30, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 1998
• The Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1998
• Fast Forward to 2000, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, 1998
• Urban Council Fine Arts Award Winners Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1997
• Perfect Tense, Fringe Club, Hong Kong, 1997
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 1997
• Hong Kong Now, (touring exhibition), Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA, 1997
• Exhibition 6.30, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 1997
• Perspectives: Contemporary Hong Kong Photographers, Space Untitled Gallery, New York, 1997
• Hong Kong Art 1997, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing/ Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 1997
• Relic/Image, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 1996
• Friulimmagina96, Villa Florio, Buttrio (UD), Italy, 1996
• Exhibition 6.30, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 1996
• Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Fringe Club, Hong Kong, 1996
• Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996
  

Books

• Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, He was lost yesterday and we found him today, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015.
• Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, Museum of the Lost, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015.
• So I don't really know sometimes if it's because of culture, Art Asia Pacific, Hong Kong, 2014
• Depot of Disappearance, independent publication, 2009
• My Name is Victoria, Korkos Gallery, Hong Kong, 2008
• Domestica Invisibile, Map Book, Hong Kong, 2006
• Visible Invisible, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997

Awards

• Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, New York, 1997
• Urban Council Fine Arts Award, Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial, 1996
• First Prize in Sculpture and Most Promising Artist Award, Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong, 1995
• Italian Government Scholarship, 1990

Artist-in-residence

• quartier21, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria, 2009
• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2007
• Inter-Cross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan, 2005
• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
• Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland, 2002
• Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, 2000
• International Studio Program (ISCP), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA, 1999