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Name
Wong Bik
Role
Artist
Wong Wo Bik (王禾璧) is a fine arts photographer and one of the few active female photographers in Hong Kong. She is best known for her photographic documentation of buildings and architecture with historical and cultural significance in Hong Kong. Her work also involves artistic manipulations, as these photographs retell her experience and stories at the sites. In 2013, she received an award from the Hong Kong Women Excellence in the Six Arts, Hong Kong Federation of Women. Wong also has a long and active career as a curator, researcher and art educator.
Born in Hong Kong, Wong Wo Bik received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Printmaking at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA in 1977 and Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA in 1979. She currently lives and works in Hong Kong.
Life as a photographer
She began her photography career in the 1980s, capturing photographs of historical architecture and landscapes in Hong Kong. Instead of preserved heritage buildings, she is interested in exploring old buildings that may be destroyed or demolished as time goes by. Her works are not just a historical record of old buildings but a reflection of her own experience at the site. She believes that the architecture she sees around the streets of Hong Kong reveals stories about the people who lived there. Through artistic fabrications, by only setting up two lights and flaw angles, she attempts to reinvent and retell these stories as well as her own subjective narrative of her experiences during her exploration at the site.
Wong is also one of the founding members of Hong Kong International Photo Festival (Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association), and has been the Museum Honorary Advisor for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department since 1996.
Awards and Achievements
1975-77 Columbus College of Art and Design - College Grant
1977-79 Tyler School of Art, Temple University - Fellowship and Scholarship
1994 Asian Cultural Council - Fellowship
1995 International Institute of Education - Fellowship on Chinese Women Leadership Programme
2010 The Certificate of Commendation from the Secretary of Home Affairs, Hong Kong
2013 Hong Kong Women Excellence in the Six Arts, Hong Kong Federation of Women
Solo Exhibitions
1981 "Colour Images", Hong Kong Arts Centre (Presented by the Polaroid Far East Limited), Hong Kong
1985 "Photography Exhibition by Wong Wo Bik", USIS American Library, Hong Kong
1986 "Impression", Alliance Francaise de Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1988 "Plastic Motion”, a photo-installation collaborating with a dance performance aurelo, City Contemporary Dance Company’s gallery and theatre, Hong Kong
2009 "Seized Moments: The Photographic Journey of Wong Wo Bik", Hong Kong Fringe Club (Organized by Asia One Product & Publishing Limited), Hong Kong
2011 "Memory and Fiction", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
1980 "Montage Dancing”, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Hong Kong
1980 "Asian American Contemporary Photography Invitational”, Camera Vision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1982 "Colour Photography - Two Photographers", Museu Luís de Camões, Macau
1982 "Chromo- Vision: Two Photographers", Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1983 "Contemporary Hong Kong Artists Invitational 1982", Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1983 "Self-Portrait Invitational", Hong Kong Landmark Plaza, Hong Kong
1984 "Images of China by Hong Kong Photographers", Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1984 "Women in Art", I-Club, Hong Kong
1987 "Instant Creativity - Polaroid Images", Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1988 "Out of Context - Mobile Art Show", Yan Oi Square, Tuen Mun; MacPherson Playground, Mong Kok; Victoria Park, Causeway Bay; Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong
1988 "A Sense of Place", Department of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1989 "Turn of a Decade - A New Generation of Artists of the Eighties", Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2003 "Woman Wanted", Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
2005 "Hong Kong Four-Cast", University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2006 "Hong Kong Photographers, 50 Years of Photography in China", Beijing Photography Association, Beijing, China
2006 "Between the Observer and the Observed", Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Guangdong, China
2006 "Hong Kong Four-Cast", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2006 "Creative Spirit: Hong Kong Visual Arts", Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
2010 "If You Park Here”, Shatin Galleria, Fotanian Open Studio 2010 (Organized by Sino Group), Hong Kong
2010 "Hong Kong Photo Series 2 - City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography”, Hong Kong Heritage Museum,Hong Kong
2012 "Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2012 "Different Dimension - International Festival of Contemporary Photography
2013 "Relativity in City", Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 "Long time no see, Victoria", Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Collections
Archive of Modern Conflict, London, UK.
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Publications
Tam, Eve; Wong Wo Bik (2009). Hong Kong/China Photographers – Volume Four – Wong Wo Bik. Asia One Product & Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-988-17998-5-2.
