Hou Lam Tsui (b. 1997) is an artist who works across moving image, sculpture, installation, and text. Her practice centres around personal experience, affect, gender politics, and peripheral storytelling. Tsui rethinks how femininity is imagined within cultures, critically exploring how media and consumer desires shape emotions, our notion of love, femininity, and identities by drawing inspiration from pop culture, advertisement, anime, literature and beyond.
Selected recent exhibitions include Follow the Feeling (Times Museum, 2024), One is not born a woman (Square Street Gallery, 2023) Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery (Para Site; Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, 2022). Her work has been screened internationally at ACMI and Art Basel Films, among others.
Tsui lives and works in Hong Kong. She received a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of Leeds in 2018 and later obtained an MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024.
Photo: Florence Yuk-Ki Lee.
education
2024
Master of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2018
Bachelor of Arts (First Hons.) in Fine Art and History of Art, University of Leeds
solo exhibitions
2024
Hangnail, M.F.A. Graduation Exhibition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2022
Blind Curve, RNH Space, Hong Kong
selected group exhibitions
2024
Follow the Feeling, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2024
Gender Revealed, the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW), Hong Kong
2023
One is not born a woman, Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2022
Para Site Annual Fundraising Auction Preview, Soho House, Hong Kong
2022
Expanded Space: Body Dis-ordered, Tomorrow Maybe, co-presented by CCDC / Jumping Frames 2022 and Eaton HK, Hong Kong
2022
Post-Human Narratives: In the Name of Scientific
Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, as part
of Para Site’s offsite project, Hong Kong
2022
Made in Hong Kong, Art Central, Hong Kong
2021
Noble Rot,
Para Site, Hong Kong
2021
Post-Human Narratives: The Coexisting Land, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2018
Squeeze (BA Degree Show), School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies,
University of Leeds, UK
2018
After the Exploration of, School of Fine Art, History
of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
selected screenings & programmes
2024
ART+FILM, ACMI (formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Australia
2024
Do NPCs Dream of Electric Sheep?, presented by Videotage, Art Basel Films, Hong Kong
2023
Living Togetherness, 2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA), Taiwan
2023
Burning Things, g39, Cardiff; Royal College of Art, UK; Videotage, Hong Kong
2023
Citrus Worlds, Art Central, Hong Kong
2023
after/party, as part of the Singapore Art Week, Supper
House and Starch, Singapore
2021
Plastic Love, RNH Space, Hong Kong, online
2020
Ocular Oracular, Issue 1, D-Normal/V-Essay, Floating Projects,
Hong Kong, online
2020
Completed with an error, Post-Human Narratives, Hong
Kong, online
selected press coverage & in-conversations
ArtAsiaPacific, “Guangzhou: Follow the Feeling”, Issue 139, print
The Last Supper - Art in Asia, “Ep. 51 | Artist Hou Lam Tsui on the politics of love, creating new societal narratives, sexuyal ambiguity, finding love and unloving”, podcast
ArtAsiaPacific, “Post-Human Narratives: In the Name of Scientific Witchery”, online
DAMN Magazine, “Features / Art: Hou Lam Tsui: Crystal Foam”, online
Tatler Hong Kong, “Witches, Magic, and Tarot Make a Cultural Comeback”, print and online
South China Morning Post, “‘Noble Rot’ art show at Para Site in Hong Kong explores themes of decay and transformation”, online
Artomity, Autumn 21, “Folio Selection”, print
fellowships & awards
2024
Liu Shiming Art Foundation Scholarship Award
2024
WMA Graduate Award (Lens-based media)
2022
2046 Fermentation + Fellowships, Para Site, Hong Kong
collections
Private Collections
Asia Art Archive Collections
Tate Library Collection
Videotage Media Art Collection