Leung Chi Wo Warren (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
Leung Chi Wo Warren 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.
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.
‘He Was Lost Yesterday and We Found Him Today’, 2010. C-print, 100x150cm.
'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.
'Sign', 2008. Video HDV PALm 13 min.
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
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
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
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
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
