Au Hoi Lam

Born in Hong Kong in 1978, Au graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2004
and a Masters of Philosophy in 2009 from The Chinese University of Hong
Kong. In 2004, she published her debut catalogue Painting Journal and
established her studio, Tone Quarters, in Fo Tan. Since 1999, Au has held
numerous solo exhibitions in Hong Kong internationally, for example, at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, where she was selected to exhibit
in Reversing Horizons, in which emerging contemporary artists reflected
on the Hong Kong Handover for its 10th anniversary. She has also been
part of group exhibitions in Hong Kong, South Korea, Moscow, Italy, Taiwan
and China. Au is one of the few artists of her generation dedicated solely to
painting and her works are the labor of love and craftsmanship – her painting
style is delicate and integrate minute details to create a unified whole. Her
works often use a pale color palette and she also produces wall-hung mixed
media art works that are autobiographical and address key family events. Au
has won several awards including the Nokia Arts Awards, the Award for Young
Artists in the Visual Arts Category from the Hong Kong Arts Development
council in 2013 and her works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art
and private collectors.

"Where will his next destination be? Paris? Mountains and rivers? Or the desert in my dream?"
Au Hoi Lam