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Movana Chen

Born 1975
Based in Hong Kong

 
EDUCATIONS

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

1995
Higher School (Visual Arts) Australian International School, Singapore

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 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

 2010
Travelling into your Bookshelf - London
Travelling into your Bookshelf - Milan

SELECTED GROUP / COLLABORATION EXHIBITIONS

2010
"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

 

PUBLICATIONS 

2010
"Travelling into your bookshelf " - movana chen, touring art project - London & Milan 2-12 Apr 2010

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

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


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

ZELO Italian Restaurant Hong Kong
Hyatt Regency Hotel Hong Kong
Hung Hum Bay Club House Hong Kong

Harbour Green Club House Hong Kong