Nicole Pun is a multidisciplinary visual artist and experimental space-runner based in Hong Kong. She primarily uses photography, video, performance to explore queer identity, desire and female representation. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BSSc from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with a background in Journalism and Communication.
She is the recipient of the following awards: Yale-China Arts Fellowship, Both Sides Now V Artist-in-Residency in UK, Emerging Artist Scheme from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, WMA Masters Special Mention Award.
Her artwork has been exhibited locally and internationally in Circus Gallery and Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles; SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco and Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco; Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven. Her solo exhibition “In & Out” took place at Lumenvisum in Hong Kong in 2018 and “Boy, Don’t Cry?” at Aco Art Space in Hong Kong in 2019.
Pun is also a founder of Sai Sai Sing, one of few queer alternative spaces in Hong Kong. She recently self-published the book “In & Out”, comprising photographs of lesbian hand gestures made from 2014-2018.
潘浩欣 ，香港視覺藝術家，以攝影、錄像和表演去探索酷兒身份、慾望和女性再現。潘氏擁有香港中文大學社會科學學士學位，主修新聞與傳播學；畢業於加州藝術學院，獲得純藝術碩士學位。展出機構包括洛杉磯的Circus Gallery與Avenue 50 Studio、三藩市的SOMArts Cultural Center、美國圖洪加的McGroarty Arts Center及香港光影作坊舉辦個人展覽「In＆Out」，作品獲博物館及私人收藏。 此外，藝術家曾參與雅禮協會的耶魯大學駐留計劃，曾獲WMA 大師攝影獎的特別嘉許獎。
Exhibitions
2024
‘Into View: New Voices, New Stories’ exhibition, Asia Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2022
‘LOVE+: Awakenings’, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
’WOMEN我們: From Her to Here’, WMA Space, Hong Kong
‘Colours of Humanity’ Arts Prize 2022, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
2021
’WOMEN我們: From Her to Here’, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco
2019
’Boy, Don’t Cry?’ solo exhibition, Aco, Hong Kong
’Sex/gender reinterpretation’ , L1 Gallery, JCCAC, Hong Kong
’Our Bodies Ourselves’ (forthcoming), Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
’Com tell me a story and I will tell your fortune’ pop-up show, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2018
’In & Out’ solo exhibition, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2015
'Love is Data', Ave 50 Studio, curated by Kathy Gallegos, Los Angeles, CA
'Realities and Concepts', Santa Monica Art Studios, curated by Meredith Marlay, Los Angeles, CA
2014
‘National Queer Arts Festival 2014’, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
‘In&Out’ solo show, Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (Calarts), Valencia, CA
Wild Queeries’, Queer Art Collective show, Main Gallery, Calarts
'Stories Untold', Jockey Club Creative Arts Center, Hong Kong
2013
‘Simple Hearts’ , Lime and Mint Gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
‘Left(over)’ solo show, L-shape Gallery, Calarts, Valencia, CA
‘Bite me’ art exhibition, McGroarty Arts Center, Los Angeles
2012
‘International student showcase’, Tatum, Calarts
2010
‘Rotterdam Foundation for Arts Education (SKVR) summer group show’, SKVR Gallery, Rotterdam
Awards & Residency
2019 Yale-China Arts Fellowship, from Yale-China Association
2019 Both Sides Now V Artist Residency in Brighton, UK, organized by Videotage(HK) and videoclub(UK)
2018 Emerging Artists Scheme of Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2016 Special Mention of WYNG Masters Award
2014 Bartman Grant
2013 First Prize of Chiquita Canyon landfill art competition
Education
2014 M.F.A (Photography and Media), California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita
2012 B.S.S.c (Journalism and Communication), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong