MOVANA CHEN

 
EDUCATION

2007
Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship, Hong Kong Art  School

 2005
 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Hong Kong

 1997
 Fashion Design The London College of Fashion, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2011
Travelling into your bookshelf - Paris , Chinart LaGalerie, Paris

Body Containers come to life , K11 art mall, Hong Kong

2009
Travelling into my Bookshelf , Shin Hwa Gallery, Hong Kong

2008
Two-way Communication Beijing, Pekin Fine Arts Beijing, China

Two-way Communication, IFC mall Hong Kong

2007
Play with artbooks-II, Fringe Club Hong Kong

 Wear Me Out-II, The 10th Seoul Fringe Festival, HUT Gallery Seoul Korea

 2006
Wear Me Out, Fringe Club Hong Kong

 2005
Play with artbooks, White Tube Hong Kong

TOURING PROJECTS - TRAVELLING INTO YOUR BOOKSHELF

  2011
6th stop: Katrin Rougeventre's Bookshelf - Paris
5th stop: Michigan State University's Bookshelf - East Lansing
4th stop: Drexel University's Bookshelf - Philadelphia

2010
3rd stop: Euan Park's Bookshelf - Seoul
2nd stop: Eleonora Lupo's Bookshelf - Milan
1st stop: Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel's Bookshelf - London

SELECTED GROUP / COLLABORATION EXHIBITIONS

2011
"Knit Together" Collaboration with Club Monaco for Lane Crawford, Atrium, ifc mall, Hong Kong
SHOW OFF Solo Show Art Fair, Paris
Ethical fashion Show, Paris

2010
"War & Peace" The International Fashion Art Biennale in Seoul, Seoul Arts Centre

"ECHO" Hong Kong Sculpture Biennial 2010, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2009
".be Anti-Crisis" DETOUR-DESIGNR-rdv project in Hong Kong and Brussels, Belgium

"Fashion & Art Exhibition" A Global VOGUE Celebration of Fashion, Beijing, China

Fashion Ethics "Wear Good" 2009 Cross Genre Exhibition, Gyeonggi MoMA Korea

Mixed Media and Body Containers on Display at The Opposite House, Swire Hotel Beijing, China

"Endless" art exhibition, Chow Sang Sang Central Store Hong Kong

2008
Body Containers, Challenging the Language of Fashion Culture,
Collaboration with Shanghai Tang and Art Asia Pacific at ART HK08 Hong Kong

Body Container comes to life @ Shanhai Tang Hong Kong

Beyond the Body, Galerie helene Lamarque Miami

THE TABLE, Chater Garden Hong Kong

"GREEDY" conceptual art exhibition, C&G Artpartment Hong Kong

Glittering in the Factory, JCCAC Hong Kong

Shanghai MoCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream, MoCA Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China

2007
Art-To-Wear, Gallery Benten 17 Hong Kong

Fashion x Art, LCX Shopping Mall Hong Kong

 AmCham Show, The American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong

 Eggstraganza Easter Public Art Exhibition, Times Square Hong Kong

 Piggies my love, Charity Public Art Exhibition, Times Square Hong Kong

 Variances in Singular, Too Art Hong Kong

 2006
Outsider Insider, Culture Club Hong Kong

 Paradigm Shift BA (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2006, Pao's Gallery Hong Kong

 New Trend 2006, Artist Commune Hong Kong

 Crackers, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong

 2005
Beyond the Surface, Artist Commune Hong Kong

  Looking, touching, knitting, shredding=INTERACTING, Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong

 You Make Me, Oxo Tower London

POKH MORF FROM HKOP, Printmaking Exhibition, Habitus Hong Kong

 Crossing Path, YY9 Gallery Hong Kong

 My fair Lady, Too Art Gallery Hong Kong

 SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2009
re:animating, City Festival 2009, JCCAC Hong Kong

2008
Passage, Shin Hwa Gallery Hong Kong

ReForm, Fringe Club Hong Kong

 2007
Art-To-Wear, Gallery Benten 17, Hong Kong

Squeeze, UMA G, Hong Kong

 2006
Outsider Insider, Culture Club, Hong Kong

 
AWARDS 

2009
New York Festivals 2009 Film & Video Awards, Finalist Certificate "Close to Culture: Art Faces - movana chen
i-CABLE News Ltd., Hong Kong

2008
"40 under 40" creative talents Award, perspective magazine, Hong Kong


PUBLICATIONS 

"Travelling into your bookshelf " - Seoul 4-15 Nov 2010
"Travelling into your bookshelf " - London & Milan 2-12 Apr 2010

"Two-way Communication", the art of movana chen (Publisher Kubrick, 2008)

ARTS-RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Gallery Curator, YY9 Gallery, Hong Kong

COLLECTIONS

Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Galerie Helene Lamarque Paris
Seoul Fringe Korea
Private Collectors

COMMIISSION WORKS

L'hotel Island South Hong Kong
ZELO Italian Restaurant Hong Kong
Hyatt Regency Hotel Hong Kong
Hung Hum Bay Club House Hong Kong
Harbour Green Club House Hong Kong