Artisits Information

Shane Akeroyd is a Hong Kong-based philanthropist and moving-image champion. In 2023, he launched the Akeroyd Collection, a curated online platform that shines a light on his over 200-strong collection of moving-image works that he began assembling more than 20 years ago, with publicly available programmes that change every six weeks. He also sits on boards and committees of institutions such as Artists Space in New York, Chisenhale Gallery and Tate in London, as well as M+ and the nonprofit art space Para Site in Hong Kong. Shane is also committed to a ten year backing of the associate curator role at the British Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, as well as a major donation to Tate to support the museum’s acquisitions of contemporary British art over the next five years. 

Dan Qiao is in charge of TANK Shanghai. She holds a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She joined TANK Shanghai after graduating in 2019, and has since helped to organise the exhibition “Friends in the Arts: Exhibition of Chinese Collectors”, “Theaster Gates: Bad Neon”, as well as events such as “TANK ART FESTIVAL”, “TANK NYE PARTY”, among others. 

Anqi Li is a curator and museum studies scholar. Previously she was Curator of Education and Public Programs at Para Site, Graduate Student Teacher at Harvard Art Museums, and Curatorial Fellow at Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco. Her writings have been published in Artforum, ArtAsiaPacific, The Art Newspaper China, and others. Li holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Education degree in Arts in Education from Harvard University. She is a current PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, investigating the relationship between the institutionalisation of contemporary art and cultural policy.

BEAU is an Hong Kong based architecture studio exploring the notions of context, program, materiality and construction. The resulting body of work displays an expressive austerity questioning the relation between objectives and the means to achieve them, recently culminating in experiments in construction methods and adaptive reuse. Both founders, Gilles Vanderstocken and Charlotte Lafont-Hugo teach in HKU a Master Design Studio on adaptive re-use and construction.

Su Chang is the Principal of Su Chang Design Research Office and an adjunct assistant professor of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His design integrates traditional crafts and emerging technologies to innovate familiar-seeming elements through contemporary cultures and climatic considerations.

Presented by Canton Gallery, Li Duo's works often draw from personal life experiences, and explore relationships through creation as a common link. The artist's practice involves various modes of creation, including that of painting, performance, theatre, action, installation, sculpture, video, publication and other such media. Li Duo aims to establish connections in her complex daily life, and create a shared sense of adventure through a personal lens. 

In Li Duo's piece, "Cheers~", the artist takes a seat, assembles a tattoo machine, and starts tattooing. At the same time, the audience can sit opposite Li and pick up a glass on the table to drink with the artist. After including their name into the tattooed phrase "Exhibition Artist: Li Duo, A, B...", the whole process continues until the end of the sentence "May everyone become a poem in just half a step". 

Aaina Bhargava is an arts writer and editor raised and based in Hong Kong. She is currently the Arts and Culture Editor of Tatler Asia, prior to which she was a culture reporter with SCMP and editor at Cobo Social. She has contributed to a variety of publications including Art Review, Ocula, Design Anthology, and Artomity and has extensive experience in the art world working for a variety of institutions in Asia and the UK. She seeks to create stimulating and meaningful editorial content, covering cultural developments through a relevant global perspective.

Dony Cheng Hung is an emerging visual artist based in Hong Kong. Her practice primarily involves painting with charcoal and airbrush, and she occasionally creates installation and moving image works. Cheng is inspired by the artificial nature and sense of alienation experienced in Hong Kong. In her artworks, she aims to evoke poetic emotions within the city and explore the connection between our senses and the surrounding urban environment in our daily lives. She examines the relationship between humans, nature, and the urban landscape. Dony Cheng/Cheng Hung received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 and a Master of Fine Arts from CUHK in 2023.

Wu Jiaru is a multimedia artist that experiments with installation, ready-made, painting, and moving image. Her works explore issues such as identity, boundaries, and the individualization of history from the perspectives of mythology, literature, and intimate relationships. Her recent exhibitions include solo show Emotional Device at P21, Seoul (2023), Secrets with an Abundance of Foreign Lines at Flowers Projects, New York (2023) and group exhibitions Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2023). Wu was awarded the Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship in 2022. Her works are in the collections of Burger Collection, M+ Museum, among others.

Stanley Chen: Chinese, Australian, Queer. 

Stanley makes self-portraits to navigate the intersection in identities

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Virtue Village (est. 2020, based in Hong Kong) is a philosophy, an epistemological ideology, and an artist duo comprised of Joseph Chen and Cas Wong. Named after old public housing estate blocks in Kowloon City, the home of Chen’s grandmother, Virtue Village root their practice in contemporary spirituality, transforming found object, environment, and the body into vessels for parabiotic communion. Tapping into the multiple definitions of ascension, they navigate the planes of collective queer subculture, fetish, and transhumanism.

Virtue Village has exhibited at and created performances for Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong); Dossier (China); the Hong Kong Arts Center; Parallel Space (Hong Kong) and Present Projects (Hong Kong).