CHAN Ting (she/they, b. 1993, Hong Kong) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, image, installation and sound. Her works have exhibited and been collected both nationally and internationally including Hong Kong, China, France, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. Her pieces are held in the Akeroyd Collection and Vancouver Art Gallery.
Her practice begins as conservation: discarded or rejected objects from public sites or domestic residences are salvaged and brought back to her studio for restoration. Drawing on her background as a hypnotherapist and energy healer, she then communes with these objects through a meditative process of addition and subtraction - applying layers of plaster and pigment that are subsequently sanded and drilled away with heavy industrial tools.
Formally, her expanded paintings and sculptural objects engage directly with the artist’s environs. In hand-blending plasters, industrial pigments, and waxy oil pastels, she also folds in the air, smell, and temperature of places such as Hong Kong and its movements of people. This results in an image that is both a palimpsest and landscape portrait, at once a reference to the contemporary conditions of place and a psychological study of society, memory, migration, and change.
陳庭是一位跨媒介藝術家，創作涵蓋雕塑、影像、裝置與聲音藝術。她的作品曾在香港、中國及法國、新加坡、瑞典、瑞士等地展出並被收藏，作品納入Akeroyd Collection及溫哥華美術館館藏。
她的藝術實踐始於修復行為：從公共空間與私人住宅回收被遺棄的物件，在工作室進行再造。結合催眠治療師與能量療癒師的背景，她透過類似冥想的加減法過程與這些物件對話—以一種綠色皮膚，既似青苔增生的人工生態皮層包覆物件，再以工業工具進行破壞性打磨，使裂縫中透出奇幻色澤。
這種獨特的創作語言延伸至她的擴展繪畫與雕塑裝置，既是當代城市的皮膚標本，也是記憶遷徙的精神地圖。 陳氏運用現成物與尋獲物剖析當代生活的精神肌理，其實踐常常以意識流的形式呈現，尤其注重影像與聲音之間的詩意對話。
Her practice begins as conservation: discarded or rejected objects from public sites or domestic residences are salvaged and brought back to her studio for restoration. Drawing on her background as a hypnotherapist and energy healer, she then communes with these objects through a meditative process of addition and subtraction - applying layers of plaster and pigment that are subsequently sanded and drilled away with heavy industrial tools.
Formally, her expanded paintings and sculptural objects engage directly with the artist’s environs. In hand-blending plasters, industrial pigments, and waxy oil pastels, she also folds in the air, smell, and temperature of places such as Hong Kong and its movements of people. This results in an image that is both a palimpsest and landscape portrait, at once a reference to the contemporary conditions of place and a psychological study of society, memory, migration, and change.
陳庭是一位跨媒介藝術家，創作涵蓋雕塑、影像、裝置與聲音藝術。她的作品曾在香港、中國及法國、新加坡、瑞典、瑞士等地展出並被收藏，作品納入Akeroyd Collection及溫哥華美術館館藏。
她的藝術實踐始於修復行為：從公共空間與私人住宅回收被遺棄的物件，在工作室進行再造。結合催眠治療師與能量療癒師的背景，她透過類似冥想的加減法過程與這些物件對話—以一種綠色皮膚，既似青苔增生的人工生態皮層包覆物件，再以工業工具進行破壞性打磨，使裂縫中透出奇幻色澤。
這種獨特的創作語言延伸至她的擴展繪畫與雕塑裝置，既是當代城市的皮膚標本，也是記憶遷徙的精神地圖。 陳氏運用現成物與尋獲物剖析當代生活的精神肌理，其實踐常常以意識流的形式呈現，尤其注重影像與聲音之間的詩意對話。
A self-described wanderer, CHAN explores relationships between people, cities and nature. Her practice navigates both mundane and extraordinary urban elements, incorporating found objects and readymade materials to examine the psychic fabric of contemporary life. This process often emerges from stream-of-consciousness explorations, particularly focusing on poetic dialogues between image and sound.
Her ongoing chromatic research investigates green as a cultural phenomenon - tracing its evolution from military applications (particularly WWII camouflage technologies) to contemporary urban contexts. This interdisciplinary study examines: the migration of military-grade pigments into civilian architecture; moss as biological colonizer of post-industrial cities; and green sculptural forms as metaphorical "skin" or “screen” in anthropogenic environments. Her work reveals how this historically charged color mediates our evolving relationship with nature in the Anthropocene era.
She has participated in artist residency at Para Site (HK), and Foo Tak Building (HK), being co-founder and artist-curator of the independent artist-run space Negative Space (2019–2022).
她視綠色為文化現象：從軍事應用到當代城市語境的演變軌跡。這項跨學科研究涵蓋：軍用級顏料向民用建築的滲透、苔蘚作為後工業城市的生物殖民者、以及綠色作為人類世環境中隱喻的「皮膚」及「屏幕」。
陳庭是獨立藝術空間 負片空間 的創辦成員與藝術家-策展人（2019-2022）。
Her ongoing chromatic research investigates green as a cultural phenomenon - tracing its evolution from military applications (particularly WWII camouflage technologies) to contemporary urban contexts. This interdisciplinary study examines: the migration of military-grade pigments into civilian architecture; moss as biological colonizer of post-industrial cities; and green sculptural forms as metaphorical "skin" or “screen” in anthropogenic environments. Her work reveals how this historically charged color mediates our evolving relationship with nature in the Anthropocene era.
She has participated in artist residency at Para Site (HK), and Foo Tak Building (HK), being co-founder and artist-curator of the independent artist-run space Negative Space (2019–2022).
她視綠色為文化現象：從軍事應用到當代城市語境的演變軌跡。這項跨學科研究涵蓋：軍用級顏料向民用建築的滲透、苔蘚作為後工業城市的生物殖民者、以及綠色作為人類世環境中隱喻的「皮膚」及「屏幕」。
陳庭是獨立藝術空間 負片空間 的創辦成員與藝術家-策展人（2019-2022）。
Education
2023
MFA,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
2021
Certified Energy Healer (Energy & Sound Healing)
Greenwoods, HK
2020
Certified Hypnotherapist,
The National Guild of Hypnotists, United States
2019
BFA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
2018
Cultural and Society Faculty (Exchange programe),
Malmö University, Sweden
2023
MFA,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
2021
Certified Energy Healer (Energy & Sound Healing)
Greenwoods, HK
2020
Certified Hypnotherapist,
The National Guild of Hypnotists, United States
2019
BFA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
2018
Cultural and Society Faculty (Exchange programe),
Malmö University, Sweden
Solo exhibition
2024
Dreamskin
(Property Holdings Development Group, HK)
Moss Wonders
(Para Site, HK)
2023
Green Room
(Gallery I, the Art Museum, CUHK, HK)
2022
A Voice In the Rupture
(Paris Internationale 2022, Paris, France)
2021
Smoking room 吸煙室
(PMQ, HK)
2024
Dreamskin
(Property Holdings Development Group, HK)
Moss Wonders
(Para Site, HK)
2023
Green Room
(Gallery I, the Art Museum, CUHK, HK)
2022
A Voice In the Rupture
(Paris Internationale 2022, Paris, France)
2021
Smoking room 吸煙室
(PMQ, HK)
Selected Group Exhibition
2025
Supper Club Hong Kong
(H Queen’s, Central, Hong Kong)
It Always Sounds Somewhere: Sounding Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s
(Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China)
2024
Cabinet Cabinet Curiosity Curiosity
(Abraham & Wolff, Paris)
2023
Tendering
(PHD Group, HK)
Commodity Fetishism
(Square Street gallery, HK)
EXERCISING FREEDOM
(HART Haus, HK)
2022
Temporary 臨時
(Negative Space, HK)
2020
Tomorrow is Never A New Day
(Negative Space, HK)
2019
Alumni Art Exhibition of the Fine Art Department of CUHK
(Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, HK)
Romancing Rubbish: Locality and Social Practice 城市浪漫垃圾
(CUHK: Ching Ming Building, HK)
The Storm of Hymns 城市的裂縫
(CUHK: Ching Ming Building, HK)
Enter the negative space
(Negative Space, HK)
Art After Hours: Alexmalism with Video Cypher Vol. 05
(Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK)
2018
Vernissage #23
(Malmö University: Orkanen, Malmö, Sweden)
Translucent Space
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
2017
Lightness/ Distance/ Intervention/ Cycling/ Mapping
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
MATLAB & Guests. Drawing & Painting: (Trans)medial experiments
(Toni-Areal ZHdK: Kunstraum and Gallery 1 & 2, Zurich, Switzerland)
Collective / Commission Project
2025
Artist facilitator :
Worlding Hong Kong: Permacinema and Slow Hope, (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
Artist facilitator :
Arts in the city
(Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK)
2023
Artist facilitator :
Art is a Journey Within
(Jockey Club Contemporary Art Literacy and Appreciation Program & 1a space, HK)
Artist facilitator : Hong Kong Touch Art Festival
(Centre for Community Cultural Development, HK)
2022
Artist facilitator : Noughts and Crossings - The Chinese University (HK) & Falmouth University (UK)
(Peer to Peer: UK/HK)
Film composer :
If I can’t dance 自如身
(directed by Dorothy Cheung, Jumping Frame film festival 2022, HK)
2025
Supper Club Hong Kong
(H Queen’s, Central, Hong Kong)
It Always Sounds Somewhere: Sounding Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s
(Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China)
2024
Cabinet Cabinet Curiosity Curiosity
(Abraham & Wolff, Paris)
2023
Tendering
(PHD Group, HK)
Commodity Fetishism
(Square Street gallery, HK)
EXERCISING FREEDOM
(HART Haus, HK)
2022
Temporary 臨時
(Negative Space, HK)
2020
Tomorrow is Never A New Day
(Negative Space, HK)
2019
Alumni Art Exhibition of the Fine Art Department of CUHK
(Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, HK)
Romancing Rubbish: Locality and Social Practice 城市浪漫垃圾
(CUHK: Ching Ming Building, HK)
The Storm of Hymns 城市的裂縫
(CUHK: Ching Ming Building, HK)
Enter the negative space
(Negative Space, HK)
Art After Hours: Alexmalism with Video Cypher Vol. 05
(Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK)
2018
Vernissage #23
(Malmö University: Orkanen, Malmö, Sweden)
Translucent Space
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
2017
Lightness/ Distance/ Intervention/ Cycling/ Mapping
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
MATLAB & Guests. Drawing & Painting: (Trans)medial experiments
(Toni-Areal ZHdK: Kunstraum and Gallery 1 & 2, Zurich, Switzerland)
Collective / Commission Project
2025
Artist facilitator :
Worlding Hong Kong: Permacinema and Slow Hope, (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
Artist facilitator :
Arts in the city
(Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK)
2023
Artist facilitator :
Art is a Journey Within
(Jockey Club Contemporary Art Literacy and Appreciation Program & 1a space, HK)
Artist facilitator : Hong Kong Touch Art Festival
(Centre for Community Cultural Development, HK)
2022
Artist facilitator : Noughts and Crossings - The Chinese University (HK) & Falmouth University (UK)
(Peer to Peer: UK/HK)
Film composer :
If I can’t dance 自如身
(directed by Dorothy Cheung, Jumping Frame film festival 2022, HK)
Selected Performance
16 - 17.08.2024
To Kill or to Heal?
w/ Florence Lam & HengSyun
(PHD Group, HK)
01.05.2023
Art is a Jounery Within:
Live at (HK) BASE studio
w/ HengSyun
(BASE studio, Tai Po art centre, HK)
23.03.2023
BECOMING THE WILD THING
w/ Zoë Marden, Sonia Wong
(KONG art space, HK)
26.12.2022
Negative Space: Group Performance II
w/ Jing Pang, Kenneth Choi, Maia Mah
(Negative Space, HK)
04.10.2022
Negative Space: Group Performance
w/ Chi Wing Ho, Florence Lam, Jing Pang, Kelvin Yiu & Vivian Wong
(Negative Space, HK)
02 - 03.07.2022
Virtue Village presents: In God’s Body
w/ Aaditya Sathish, Aka Chow, Chan Wai Lok, Haru, Holok Chen, Natasha Cheung, Siu Fong Yeung & Thisby Cheng
(PHD Group, HK)
21.06.2022
The Performance is Happening: 20 Days Live
Shuttle > Moon < Delay
w/ Jing Pang
(Negative Space, HK)
26.11.2021
escdotdot presents ct1993 & Vunkwan Tam
(HKBU: Academy of Visual Arts Kai Tak campus, HK)
27.10.2020
Probation (Gaseous Head, Axiomatic Face)
- Sound Forms《聲形》：2020
w/ Vunkwan Tam
(Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK)
06.11.2019
Tujiko Noriko/ Nerve/ ct1993/ Misty Penguin —【∀fter Absurd #04】
(Terrible Baby, Eaton Hotel, HK)
16.03.2019
Sincerity Machine
(Twenty Alpha, HK)
06.02.2019
Absurd Creation 鳳凰涅槃：意動甦生
(Wing Fat Cafe 永發茶餐廳, HK)
05.11.2018
Vunkum & ct1993 live set
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
26.08.2018
Cheapdoy: 美勞展
(Hong Kong Community Radio , HK)
16 - 17.08.2024
To Kill or to Heal?
w/ Florence Lam & HengSyun
(PHD Group, HK)
01.05.2023
Art is a Jounery Within:
Live at (HK) BASE studio
w/ HengSyun
(BASE studio, Tai Po art centre, HK)
23.03.2023
BECOMING THE WILD THING
w/ Zoë Marden, Sonia Wong
(KONG art space, HK)
26.12.2022
Negative Space: Group Performance II
w/ Jing Pang, Kenneth Choi, Maia Mah
(Negative Space, HK)
04.10.2022
Negative Space: Group Performance
w/ Chi Wing Ho, Florence Lam, Jing Pang, Kelvin Yiu & Vivian Wong
(Negative Space, HK)
02 - 03.07.2022
Virtue Village presents: In God’s Body
w/ Aaditya Sathish, Aka Chow, Chan Wai Lok, Haru, Holok Chen, Natasha Cheung, Siu Fong Yeung & Thisby Cheng
(PHD Group, HK)
21.06.2022
The Performance is Happening: 20 Days Live
Shuttle > Moon < Delay
w/ Jing Pang
(Negative Space, HK)
26.11.2021
escdotdot presents ct1993 & Vunkwan Tam
(HKBU: Academy of Visual Arts Kai Tak campus, HK)
27.10.2020
Probation (Gaseous Head, Axiomatic Face)
- Sound Forms《聲形》：2020
w/ Vunkwan Tam
(Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK)
06.11.2019
Tujiko Noriko/ Nerve/ ct1993/ Misty Penguin —【∀fter Absurd #04】
(Terrible Baby, Eaton Hotel, HK)
16.03.2019
Sincerity Machine
(Twenty Alpha, HK)
06.02.2019
Absurd Creation 鳳凰涅槃：意動甦生
(Wing Fat Cafe 永發茶餐廳, HK)
05.11.2018
Vunkum & ct1993 live set
(CUHK: Hui Gallery, HK)
26.08.2018
Cheapdoy: 美勞展
(Hong Kong Community Radio , HK)
Award / Grant
2022
Friends of the Art Museum Research Grant
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
2021 - 2023
Studentship Award
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
2021
Professor Mayching Kao Arts Development Fund
(JCCAC, HK)
2020
NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour
(Para Site, HK)
2019
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award - the Art of CUHK
(Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
2022
Friends of the Art Museum Research Grant
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
2021 - 2023
Studentship Award
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
2021
Professor Mayching Kao Arts Development Fund
(JCCAC, HK)
2020
NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour
(Para Site, HK)
2019
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award - the Art of CUHK
(Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
Artist Residency
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Para Site, HK
2019 - 2022
Foo Tak Building, HK
Publication
2021
Things will work out tomorrow -
A Growing Collection of StepBackForward Methodologies
(Step Back Forward 彳亍以行)
Curatorial Exhibition & Performance
2022
Negative Space: Group Performance I & II (Negative Space, HK)
2021
Walk slowly. The sun is in no hurry.
(Negative Space, HK)
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Para Site, HK
2019 - 2022
Foo Tak Building, HK
Publication
2021
Things will work out tomorrow -
A Growing Collection of StepBackForward Methodologies
(Step Back Forward 彳亍以行)
Curatorial Exhibition & Performance
2022
Negative Space: Group Performance I & II (Negative Space, HK)
2021
Walk slowly. The sun is in no hurry.
(Negative Space, HK)
© CHAN Ting 2025.