Transmedia Experiments of Michelle Fung
Michelle Fung’s artistic practice traverses a remarkable range of media, including ink painting, color studies, printmaking, wood carving, and animation. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, her work invites us to consider how ideas move across materials and forms, generating new possibilities for perception and expression.
This talk explores Michelle Fung’s ongoing engagement with experimentation as both an artistic methodology and a form of research. Through selected works in the exhibition Northlandia in the Making, we will discuss how different media offer distinct ways of thinking, how traditional and contemporary techniques coexist within a single practice, and how artistic inquiry unfolds through making, observation, failure, transformation, and repetition. The conversation will also reflect on how these diverse strands of practice can be understood, brought into relation, and presented through the curatorial process.
- This is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the “Personal Enrichment & Community Service” category under the “Self-directed Experience” of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness.
- To receive 2 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10 mins.
- Photos will be taken during the tour. By attending or participating in this event, you are giving your consent to be photographed and you are waiving any and all claims regarding the use of your image by the University.
Dr Vennes Cheng Sau-Wai is a Hong Kong-based scholar and curator, currently serving as faculty member in the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Formerly an Associate Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ and a research fellow at the documenta institut, she holds a PhD in Art History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was a UK Chevening Scholar.
Her research explores the intersection of contemporary art, archival practices, and the politics of memory. Recognised for her scholarship, she received an honourable mention for the 2023 Journal of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Prize. Her curatorial projects have been realised across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, reflecting her commitment to mapping new, adaptive archival architectures through both analogue and digital methodologies.
Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung’s lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084. Fung holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia (English Literature and Studio Art) and a Master of Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University.
Her works have garnered many local and international awards, including Guardian International Printmaking Conference’s Young Artist Award, Beijing (2026), the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize, and JIA Illustration bronze award with Japanese Illustrators’ Association (2026). She has held solo exhibitions at local and international museums, galleries, and alternative spaces including Hong Kong Art Central with Square Street Gallery (2026), Sin Sin Fine Art (2025), and the national museum Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria (2022) among others. Fung lives and works in Hong Kong.
Ping Yuan and Kinmay W Tang Gallery
3pm - 5pm
Dr Vennes Cheng
Grace Gu
Michelle Fung
