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She is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, performance, and AI-generated media. She is also a lecturer, writer, and researcher in Hong Kong. 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.

潘浩欣 ,跨領域藝術家,創作涵蓋攝影、錄像、行為藝術及人工智能生成媒體。她同時是講師、文字工作者與研究者。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」,作品獲舊金山亞洲藝術博物館及私人收藏。 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。


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

Exhibitions

2026 (coming soon)
’Reimagined seaflooor’ exhibition, Aco Gallery, Hong Kong

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 Gallery, 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 & Achievements

2023 Grunt Gallery Artist Residency, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Yale-China Arts Fellowship, Yale-China Association and Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019 Both Sides Now V Artist Residency, Brighton, UK, Videotage(HK) and videoclub(UK)
2016 Special Mention of WYNG Masters Award
2013 First Prize of Chiquita Canyon landfill art competition

Grants

2023 Cultural Exchange Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK
2018 Emerging Artists Development Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK
2013 Bartman Grant for Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts, US

Selected Screenings

2024 Queer Film & Video Screening, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2023 Videoex Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
2021 SPARK Festival, British Council, HK
2019 Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain