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CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

Press Release

16 May 2013
For immediate release

Attention Arts and Features Editors

May 2013 – Events & Exhibitions
	
  
	
  

Osage Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong
Booth 3C39

OSAGE GALLERY (Booth 3C39) is
proud to announce its participation in
the inaugural edition of Art Basel Hong
Kong, to be held at the Hong Kong
Convention and Exhibition Centre from
22-26 May 2013.
The gallery booth will feature works
challenging different mediums byprominent gallery artists from the AsiaPacific region, the artists include: Au
Hoi Lam, Lui Chun Kwong, Kingsley
Ng, Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong); Liang
Quan, Ma Shuqing, Miao Xiaochun(China); Kentaro Hiroki (Japan); Louie
Cordero (Philippines); Tintin Wulia(Indonesia); Ng Joon Kiat (Singapore)and Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand).

Miao Xiaochun
The Dissident
2012
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Image
	
   	
   	
   courtesy of the artist

	
  
	
  

	
  

	
  
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Osage Gallery at Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong
Encounters 7
Artists: SUN Yuan and PENG Yu	
  OSAGE GALLERY (Encounters 7) is
one of seventeen galleries selected toparticipate in the first edition of the
Encounters Sector, a platform dedicatedto showcasing large-scale sculpture andinstallation works. The section iscurated by Yuko Hasegawa, the Chief
Curator of the 21st Century Museum ofContemporary Art in Kanazawa andboard member of the International
Committee
forMuseumsandCollections of Modern Art.
For Encounters, Osage Gallery will
exhibit Hong Kong Intervention (2009),
an installation work by Chinese artists,
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Hong Kong Intervention (exhibition view at 17th
Biennale of Sydney)2009
200 C-prints
75 x 100cm, 75 x 56cm (each pair)
Image courtesy of the artists and Osage Gallery

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

	
  

The work is a series of two hundred
photographs in which the artists invited
one hundred Filipino domestic helpers
to participate. There
were two
stipulations, firstly they were required tophotographtheirworkspace (theemployer’s home) with the inclusion of a
toy grenade provided by the artist andsecondly, they had to take an“anonymous portrait” of their back in alocation of their choice. This was all
done
without
theiremployer’s
knowledge. Both sets of photographs
will be displayed alongside each other,articulatingthetensionbetweenintimacy and estrangement, anonymity
and incursion.

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Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean
Artist: AU Hoi Lam
	
  

	
  

Au Hoi Lam
There is a Song (Twelve Words Twelve Months
Twelve Exercises) (installation view)
2012-2013
Pencil, acrylic, emulsion paint, linen, wooden board
and wooden frame
A set of 12 pieces, 95.9 x 126.3 x 5.2 cm each
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery.
Photographed by Kwan Sheung Chi.

To complement our artistic projects
presented at Art Basel Hong Kong,
OSAGE GALLERY will present a solo
show: Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over
the Ocean, at Osage Open in Kwun
Tong.
The exhibition features a series ofpaintings and installations created inremembrance of the artist’s late father.
The gallery space has been transformed
into an imaginative ‘ocean’. The
installation, created from components ofher late father’s bed maps thecoordinates of memories. My Father,sung by the artist, is a song adaptedfrom My Bonnie and is converted into
imageries,
symbolsandsounds,expanding to the universal, which Au
closely observes.

Cocktail Reception:
Friday 24 May 2013, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.

3Life Poetry of Mountain Tea Time
Artist: LIANG Quan	
  OSAGE GALLERY is pleased to announce its firstsolo exhibition for the Chinese artist Liang Quan, Life
Poetry of Mountain Tea Time, featuring a series of
tea-themed recent works by this new ink artist.
Chinese ink painting must reconstruct its traditions,particularly the refined cultural traditions of literati
aesthetics.
It must approach from the “Dao,”
expanding contemporary ink painting through higher
principles. The art of Liang Quan has greatly
expanded the possibilities of contemporary art
through his explorations of the naturalness andemptiness of ink painting.

Liang Quan
Little Tearoom – 12051
2012
Tea, ink, color, xuan paper collage
90 x 60 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Liang Quan’s mode of consciousness in ink is therepetition of minute fragments to realize empty
tranquility. This is unimaginable within tradition. Liang
Quan’s sensitivity towards the minute fragments, theprecise control of the encounters between ink andwater, the stacking and adjustment of the various
color fields and the light coatings of mist cometogether to form a polyphonic poetry, a painting
comprising adjustments. It does not seem, however,that the artist is the one doing the adjusting. Instead,
it is the “interval blankness,” that breathing “infrawhite” that invisibly wanders between the strips ofpaper, that “minute white,” or that “tea color” or “softyellow” that guides our eyes, or that young andsupple green. This infra-white and the color tones arechanting to themselves in a low hum, emitting afaintly drifting aroma.
The works in this exhibition are all connected to thedaily activity of drinking tea. They bring painting backto everyday life, which in turn discovers abstract
poetry within everyday life. The tea-colored and softyellow tones allude to the color tones of time. Bybringing the colors of tea into ink painting, Liang
Quan has effected an expansion of the materials of
ink, and infused it with the Zen of tea, reconstructing
the traditional form of viewing, a form of viewing thatis more akin to savoring the artwork. This is a form of“cultivating observation,” a reading that provides
much food for thought.

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Life Poetry of Mountain Tea Time
Artist: LIANG Quan	
  continued from page 4This exhibition also includes the new media artwork Wellspring, which is a tribute to Liang Quan byyoung Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng. The artwork uses water glasses to create the shadows ofsundials using water from various countries. They are clearly marked with the date and location(France, Italy, New Zealand, etc.), and serve as a response to the temporality of time through thechanging qualities of light from morning to night, alluding to the temporal metaphor in light andshadow. The title Wellspring echoes the relationship between spring water and tea, a yin-yang
dialogue that is unique to Chinese culture, a lament on passing and clinging. Water is the clearest
material under the sun, and with the poeticism and lowly demeanor of its surface, Liang Quan’s art
opens up infinite tension upon an almost nonexistent surface, inspiring the beginner’s eye of theyoung artist and evoking a response to this tranquil joy of the surface. The encounter between waterand tea is the nourishment of blankness, nourishing space and life with blankness, emitting a faintglow from the picture. This is the marriage of qi and light, an art of time.

Cocktail Reception:
Friday 24 May 2013, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.

5Market Forces: The Friction of Opposites
Curators: Joselina CRUZ, Ark FONGSMUT, LEE Daehyung, QIU Zhijie and Alia SWASTIKA

	
  
	
  

Concurrently at Osage Kwun Tong, theOSAGE ART FOUNDATION will present thesecond edition of the annual exhibition of“Market Forces”, which will provoke andchallenge existing theories of value in art.
In Market Forces: The Friction of Opposites,
five curators from around the region will eachpresent an individual project that examines
notions of value. The curators are: Joselina
Cruz, Ark Fongsmut, Lee Daehyung, Qiu
Zhijie and Alia Swastika.
Joshua Oppenheimer
The Act of Killing (still)
2012
Directors Cut
158 Minutes
FISH
Photo by Joshua Oppenheimer (framegrab)
Pictured (left to right): Dancers, Herman Koto, Anwar
Congo.

Daily Film Screenings:
10:00 am, 12:45 pm, 3:30 pm

Additionally, Osage Art Foundation willfeature works by invited artists alongsidethese curated projects. These include:
Joshua Oppenheimer’s highly acclaimed film,
The Act of Killing, which has won numerous
awards including: Grand Prize at theBelgrade Documentary Film Festival (2013);
Amnesty International Award at IndieLisboa
Film Festival (2013); Grand Prize of the Jury
& Audience Award at Documenta Madrid Film
Festival (2013); Best Film at One World Film
Festival (2013), Prague; Best Feature
Documentary at Danish Film Academy(2013); Ecumenical Jury Prize and Panorama
Audience Award at Berlin International Film
Festival (2013) and works by Au Hoi Lam,
Nilo Ilarde, Vivian Poon, Jin Shan and Alvin
Zafra.
This exhibition is a free platform for free
thinking about art and its dissemination andit will explore the relationship of art to thepatterns of conduct that are accepted or
established as consistent with ethical andmoral decisions.

Supported by
Opening Party:
Friday 17 May 2013, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.

	
  

	
  

	
  

Cocktail Reception:
Friday 24 May 2013, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.

For more information on each exhibition, please contact:
Charmaine Lim | charmaine@osagegallery.com | 2389 8332
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FACT SHEET (1)ABOUT OSAGE GALLERY AT ART BASEL HONG KONG
Gallery name

Osage Gallery

Booth number

Main fair:
Encounters Sector:

Artists

Booth 3C39
Au Hoi Lam, Lui Chun Kwong, Kingsley Ng, Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong)
Liang Quan, Ma Shuqing, Miao Xiaochun (China)
Louie Cordero (Philippines)
Kentaro Hiroki (Japan)
Ng Joon Kiat (Singapore)
Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand)
Tintin Wulia (Indonesia)

3C39
#7

Encounters #7
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu (China)
Location

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

Exhibition period

22 May 2013 – 26 May 2013

Private View

22 May, Wednesday: 12pm to 5pm (by invitation only)

Vernissage

22 May, Wednesday: 5pm to 9pm (by invitation only)

General Admission

Open to the public
23 May, Thursday - 25 May, Saturday: 12pm to 7pm
26 May, Sunday: 12pm to 5pm

7FACT SHEET (2)
AU HOI LAM: MY FATHER IS OVER THE OCEAN
ArtistAu Hoi Lam (Hong Kong)

Exhibition period

22 March 2013 – 30 May 2013

Cocktail Reception

24 May 2013, 6 - 8pm

Exhibition venue

Osage Open

Address

4/F, Union Hing Yip Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

Opening hours

Daily, 10:30 am – 7:00 pm

Exhibition
description

To complement our artistic projects presented at Art Basel Hong Kong,
OSAGE GALLERY will present a solo show: Au Hoi Lam: My Father isOver the Ocean, at Osage Open in Kwun Tong.
The exhibition features a series of paintings and installations created inremembrance of the artist’s late father. The gallery space has beentransformed into an imaginative ‘ocean’. The installation, created fromcomponents of her late father’s bed maps the coordinates of memories.
My Father, sung by the artist, is a song adapted from My Bonnie and isconverted into imageries, symbols and sounds, expanding to theuniversal, which Au closely observes.

8FACT SHEET (3)LIFE POETRY OF MOUNTAIN TEA TIME
ArtistLiang Quan (China)

CuratorDr. Xia Kejun (China)

Exhibition period

17 May 2013 – 24 June 2013

Cocktail Reception

24 May 2013, 6 - 8pm

Exhibition venue

Osage Atelier

Address

4/F, Union Hing Yip Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

Opening hours

Daily, 10:30 am – 7:00 pm

Exhibition
description

OSAGE GALLERY is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition for the
Chinese artist Liang Quan, Life Poetry of Mountain Tea Time, featuring aseries of tea-themed recent works by this new ink artist.
Chinese ink painting must reconstruct its traditions, particularly the refined
cultural traditions of literati aesthetics. It must approach from the “Dao,”
expanding contemporary ink painting through higher principles. The art ofLiang Quan has greatly expanded the possibilities of contemporary art
through his explorations of the naturalness and emptiness of ink painting.
Liang Quan’s mode of consciousness in ink is the repetition of minutefragments to realize empty tranquility. This is unimaginable within
tradition. Liang Quan’s sensitivity towards the minute fragments, theprecise control of the encounters between ink and water, the stacking andadjustment of the various color fields and the light coatings of mist cometogether to form a polyphonic poetry, a painting comprising adjustments.
It does not seem, however, that the artist is the one doing the adjusting.
Instead, it is the “interval blankness,” that breathing “infra-white” thatinvisibly wanders between the strips of paper, that “minute white,” or that“tea color” or “soft yellow” that guides our eyes, or that young and supple
green. This infra-white and the color tones are chanting to themselves ina low hum, emitting a faintly drifting aroma.
The works in this exhibition are all connected to the daily activity ofdrinking tea. They bring painting back to everyday life, which in turndiscovers abstract poetry within everyday life. The tea-colored and softyellow tones allude to the color tones of time. By bringing the colors of
tea into ink painting, Liang Quan has effected an expansion of thematerials of ink, and infused it with the Zen of tea, reconstructing the
traditional form of viewing, a form of viewing that is more akin to savoring
the artwork. This is a form of “cultivating observation,” a reading thatprovides much food for thought.
This exhibition also includes the new media artwork Wellspring, which is atribute to Liang Quan by young Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng. The
artwork uses water glasses to create the shadows of sundials using waterfrom various countries. They are clearly marked with the date andlocation (France, Italy, New Zealand, etc.), and serve as a response to
the temporality of time through the changing qualities of light from9morning to night, alluding to the temporal metaphor in light and shadow.
The title Wellspring echoes the relationship between spring water andtea, a yin-yang dialogue that is unique to Chinese culture, a lament on
passing and clinging. Water is the clearest material under the sun, andwith the poeticism and lowly demeanor of its surface, Liang Quan’s art
opens up infinite tension upon an almost nonexistent surface, inspiring
the beginner’s eye of the young artist and evoking a response to thistranquil joy of the surface. The encounter between water and tea is thenourishment of blankness, nourishing space and life with blankness,
emitting a faint glow from the picture. This is the marriage of qi and light,
an art of time.

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FACT SHEET (4)MARKET FORCES: THE FRICTION OF OPPOSITESCurator / Artists

Joselina Cruz

(Philippines)

Pio Abad(Philippines)

Ark Fongsmut(Thailand)

Arin Rungjang(Thailand)Lee
Daehyung(Korea)Han JinSu
Lee Sangjun(Korea)(Korea)Qiu Zhijie(China)Chen Chenchen
Liu JiajingSong Zhen
Zhao Jingyan(China)(China)(China)(China)Alia Swastika(Indonesia)

Wisnu Auri
Iswanto Hartono
Roslisham Ismail
Dane Mitchell
Charwei Tsai
Melati Suryodarmo(Indonesia)(Indonesia)(Malaysia)(New Zealand)(Taiwan)(Indonesia)

Au Hoi Lam
Nilo Ilarde
Vivian Poon
Joshua Oppenheimer
Jin ShanAlvin Zafra(Hong Kong)(Philippines)(Hong Kong)(USA)(China)(Philippines)

Osage Art Foundation

Project Manager

Jonathan Thomson

Exhibition period

17 May 2013 – 17 July 2013

Opening Party

17 May 2013, 6 - 8pm

Cocktail
Reception

24 May 2013, 6 - 8pm

Exhibition venue

Osage Kwun Tong

Address

5/F Kian Dai Industrial Bldg, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong

Opening hours

Daily, 10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Film Screenings

Daily, 10:00 am, 12:45 pm, 3:30 pm

Exhibition
description

Concurrently at Osage Kwun Tong, the OSAGE ART FOUNDATION will
present the second edition of the annual exhibition of “Market Forces”,
which will provoke and challenge existing theories of value in art.
In Market Forces: The Friction of Opposites, five curators from around theregion will each present an individual project that examines notions ofvalue. The curators are: Joselina Cruz, Ark Fongsmut, Lee Daehyung, Qiu
Zhijie and Alia Swastika.
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Additionally, Osage Art Foundation will feature works by invited artists
alongside these curated projects. These include: Joshua Oppenheimer’shighly acclaimed film, The Act of Killing, which has won numerous awards
including: Grand Prize at the Belgrade Documentary Film Festival (2013);
Amnesty International Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival (2013); Grand
Prize of the Jury & Audience Award at Documenta Madrid Film Festival(2013); Best Film at One World Film Festival (2013), Prague; Best Feature
Documentary at Danish Film Academy (2013); Ecumenical Jury Prize andPanorama Audience Award at Berlin International Film Festival (2013) andworks by Au Hoi Lam, Nilo Ilarde, Vivian Poon, Jin Shan and Alvin Zafra.
This exhibition is a free platform for free thinking about art and its
dissemination and it will explore the relationship of art to the patterns ofconduct that are accepted or established as consistent with ethical andmoral decisions.

12APPENDIX A:ABOUT THE ARTISTS at ART BASEL HONG KONG
Au Hoi Lam (b. 1970, Hong Kong) graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Masterof Fine Arts and a Master of Philosophy in 2004 and 2009 respectively. In 2001, Au received theAlexandre Yersin Excellence Scholarship from the Consulat Général de France à Hong Kong to study
at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans from 2001-2002. In 2004, Au published Painting
Journal and established studio Tone Quarters in Fo Tan. In 2010, she established studio Qiáng in Fo
Tan with artists Tsang Chui-mei, AMA & Vivian Poon. Recent exhibitions include “Au Hoi Lam: My
Father is Over the Ocean” (Osage Open, Hong Kong, 2013), “Elsewhere: Au Hoi Lam & Sara Tse”
(Osage Soho, Hong Kong, 2011), “Au Hoi Lam Reading Room” (Muji Atelier, Hong Kong 2010),“Definitions of Time: Paintings by Au Hoi Lam” (Edge Gallery, Hong Kong 2010) and “Lui Chun Kwong.
You Are Here, I am Not.” (Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2010). Her works are collected by Hong
Kong Museum of Art and private collectors. Au lives and works in Hong Kong.
Louie Cordero (b. 1978, Manila, Philippines) is trained as a painter and graduated with a Bachelor ofFine Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2001. His works have been shown in several
countries namely USA, Philippines, Hong Kong and Australia. Selected group exhibitions include“Manila Vice” (Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France, 2013), “Panorama Recent art
from Contemporary Asia” (Singapore Art Museum, 2012), “Porous Border” (G23 Gallery,
Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2012), “Complete and Unabridged, part 2” (Works ofRoberto Chabet and 51 artists, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2011), “Bisa” (Metropolitan
Museum, Manila, Philippines, 2011), “Open House” (3rd Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art
Museum, 2011) and “Panimula” (Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines, 2000). He was the recipientof Thirteen Artists Awards from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2006 and the Grand Prize
Winner of the Painting Category in the 8th Annual Freeman Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, USA
in 2002-2003. Cordero lives and works in Manila.
Kentaro Hiroki is a Japanese artist and is the Chairman of Communication Design Program at the
School of Architecture and Design (SoAD), KMUTT, Bangkok. Hiroki graduated with a Master of Fine Art
from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, PGD Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a
Bachelor’s of Fine Art from Osaka Art University, Japan. He also studied Central Saints Martin School of
Design, London for his Foundation Course. Since 2001, Kentaro has exhibited his work internationally
including UK, Norway, Sweden and Hong Kong. Hiroki lives and works in Bangkok.
Liang Quan (b. 1948, Shanghai, China) received a MFA degree from San Francisco Academy of Fine
Arts in 1983. His work has been exhibited internationally, selected exhibitions include“Form, Idea, Essence, Rhythm—New Aspects of Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting “(Taipei Fine
Art Museum, Taiwan, 2008), “Guangdong Contemporary Art Exhibition” (Guangdong Fine Art
Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2008), “Ink, Not Ink—Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash Exhibition”(Shenzhen Art Museum, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2008), “The 3rd Chengdu Biennial
Exhibition” (Chengdu, China, 2007), “Solo Exhibition” (Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China,2006), “Ink and Paper” (Weimar Art Museum, Weimar, Germany, 2005), “An Open Era” (National Fine
Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2003), “The 1st Chengdu Biennial” (Chengdu, China, 2001), “Shanghai
Fine Arts Biennial” (Shanghai Art Museum, China, 1998), “Chinese Modern Print Exhibition” (British
Museum, London, UK, 1996) and “Chinese Modern Fine Art Exhibition” (Churchill College, Cambridge
University, UK, 1988). His artworks have been acquired by numerous private collectors and public
institutions, including British Museum, National Art Museum of China, Hong Kong Museum of Art andUniversity of San Francisco. Liang lives and works in Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
Lui Chun Kwong (b. 1956, Guangdong, China) graduated with a BFA from Fine Art National Taiwan
Normal University in 1980 and a MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1994. From
1985-2010, he taught at the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an
instructor for the MFA programme. In 1988, Lui and his friends founded the Hong Kong Modern Art
Society of Watercolour and chaired the Society for the first three years. Lui also served as Chairman of
the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society from 1988-2002. In 2001, Lui established his Yiliu Painting Factory
13and jointly held the first Open Studios in Fo Tan with his students, a precursor to the current Fo Tan
Artists Open Studios. Lui has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 1962.
Ma Shuqing (b. 1956, Tianjin, China) graduated from Tianjin Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1976. He
continued his studies at the Munich Fine Arts Academy and studied under Professor Troeger andProfessor Zeniuk and graduated in 1995. Although he moved to France in 1994, he returned to Beijing
in 2003 and established his studio in 798 Art District. Selected group exhibitions include “In Time:
Chinese Oil Painting Biennale” (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2012), “China Germany: Abstract Painting today!” (Caspar Ludwig Opländer Stiftung/ WILO, Dortmund, 2012),“China Abstract Painting Now” (Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany, 2011), “Visible Soul The Fourth Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition” (PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing, China, 2011), “Abstract
Art” (Edsvik Konsthall Sollentuna, Sweden, 2010) and “2nd Beijing International Biennale” (National
Museum, Beijing, China, 2005). Ma lives and works in Beijing and Paris.
Miao Xiaochun (b. 1964, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China) is the Head of the Photography and DigitalMedia at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine
Arts (CAFA) and from the with a MA degree in 1989. He has participated in numerous solo exhibitions
including “Miao Xiaochun: The Real in the Virtual” (The Dennos Museum Center, Michigan, USA,2012), “Beijing Handscrolls” (Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2011), “Macromania” (Ludwig
Museum, Koblenz, Germany, 2010). Selected group exhibitions include “The 55th Venice Biennale”(The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2013), “The 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary ArtMountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s” (Queensland Art Gallery; Gallery ofModern Art; Brisbane, Australia, 2012), “The Unseen- Main Exhibition of The 4th Guangzhou
Triennial”(Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2012), “The Global Contemporary.
Kunstwelten nach 1989(Art Worlds after 1989)”(Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe,
Germany, 2011), “The 54th Venice Biennale—Future Pass” (Venice, Italy, 2011), “A Fresh Look at
Chinese Landscapes” (Galerie Moderne Chinesische Malerei des Museums für Asiatische Kunst,
Berlin, Germany, 2010), “Beijing Time, Casa Asia” (Matadero Madrid; Santiago Art Museum, Spain,2009), “China: Construction—Deconstruction » (Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2008)
and "China Design Now, 2008-2010” (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Cincinnati Art
Museum, Ohio, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA; 2008). His works have been acquired bynumerous collectors and institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Uli Sigg Collection;
Shanghai Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Miao lives and works in Beijing.
Ng Joon Kiat received a Shell-NAC scholarship (presently known as NAC overseas scholarship), themost prestigious scholarship at the National Arts Council of Singapore to complete the Master in Fine
Art program at the University of Kent in the U.K in 2001. Joon Kiat was also the recipient of other
scholarships such as the Ericsson Scholarship that supported his first-degree study and the Georgette
Chen Scholarship to support his diploma program. In 1997, he was the first student at Lasalle SIA
College of the Arts to be awarded the SIA Excellence in the Arts for his outstanding performance andcontribution to the Singapore arts scene. After his National Service, he won the Nokia Art Award andrepresented Singapore to take part in the Asia-Pacific Nokia Art Competition in Seoul, South Korea.
In 2007, the National Museum of Singapore presented Joon Kiat’s solo exhibition for a period of twomonths. Singapore’s renowned and highly respected art historian T.K. Sabapathy has written about his
works.
In 2010, the Esplanade presented his solo exhibition under their most prestigious visual art program.
The National Art Gallery of Singapore has bought a set of his seminal works for their collection.
In 2011, he is invited to serve as a member on the interview panel for scholarships and bursary at the
National Arts Council of Singapore. His works has been selected to represent Singapore at theSingapore Embassy in Berlin during the 8th Asia-Pacific Weeks. He is selected as one of the 30 Asian
Finalists at the prestigious Sovereign Art Competition 2011.
In 2012, Joon Kiat is one of the 25 prominent artists across Asia selected to exhibit with the prestigious
British’s Royal Academicians at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Lasalle. He is also one of the threeartists to represent the Singapore Platform at Art Stage 2012, the exhibition was curated by Dr Charles
Merewether.
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In 2013, Joon Kiat has exhibited at the Louis Vuitton Island Maison in Singapore
Joon Kiat has actively participated in many exhibitions locally and internationally. Notable acquisitionsof his works include the Aspen-Re Art Collection and the National Art Gallery of Singapore.
Kingsley Ng (b. 1980, Hong Kong) is an inter-disciplinary artist. His practice focuses on conceptual,site-specific, and community-engaging projects. He received postgraduate training at Le Fresnoy –National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France under the tutelage of renowned artists including Alain
Fleischer, Andrea Cera, Atau Tanaka and Gary Hill and graduated with the highest honors (lesfelicitation du jury à l'unanimité). He continued his studies with an MSc Sustainable Design degreefrom the University of Edinburgh in the UK and a BFA New Media Art degree from the Ryerson
University in Canada. Ng’s works have been featured in international exhibitions such as “Guangzhou
Triennial” (Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2012), “2nd Land Art Biennial” (National
Gallery of Mongolia, 2012), “Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial” (Tsunan, Niigata, Japan, 2009) and “NIME06” (IRCAM- Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2006). Ng lives and works in Hong Kong.
Nipan Oranniwesna (b. 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) graduated with a BFA from Silpakorn University,
Bangkok and received MFA (Printmaking) from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music. His
works have been exhibited both locally and internationally: “18th Biennale of Sydney: All Our
Relations" (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2012) “Kuandu Biennale: Artist in Wonderland”(Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012) “City-Net Asia 2011” (Seoul Museum of Art, South
Korea, THIS IS NOT A FAIRY TALE, g23, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011) “PAPER MATTERS” (BACC,
Bangkok, Thailand, 2010) “Safe place the future” (VER Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009) “Sea Art
Festival, Busan Biennale” (Gwangalli Beach, Busan, South Korea, 2008) "’Globalization Please Slow
Down’ at Thai Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale”, (Venice, Italy, 2007). He also has participated in the
exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Osage Hong Kong and Singapore, Sundaram
Tagore Gallery, New York, Soka Contemporary Art Space, Taipei, Eslite Gallery, Taipei,
BISCHOFF/WIESS, London, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok. He lives and works in Bangkok where heis also head of Visual Arts Department, School of Fine & Applied Art, Bangkok University.
Wilson Shieh (b. 1970 Hong Kong) received a BA degree (fine arts major) and a MFA degree fromthe Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 and 2001 respectively. He set up his studio in Fotan
industrial district of Hong Kong in 2008. Selected exhibitions include “Ink, The Art of China” (Saatchi
Gallery, London, UK, 2012), “Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009” (Hong Kong
Museum of Art, 2010), “Legacy and Creations: Ink Art vs Ink Art” (Shanghai Art Museum, China,2010), “Legacy and Creations: Art vs Art” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, 2010),“The 7th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen” (Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Guan Shanyue
Museum of Art, The OCT Art and Design Gallery; Shenzhen, China, 2010), “Three Decades ofContemporary Chinese Collection” (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2009), “Outside In:
Alternative Narratives in Contemporary Art” (The University Museum and Art Gallery of The Universityof Hong Kong, 2009), “2009 Asian Art Biennial: Viewpoints & Viewing Points” (National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2009), “Distance and Proximity: Artists’ Awnings”(Gulbenkian Garden, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008), “New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond” (Hong Kong
Museum of Art, 2008), “The Pivotal Decade - Hong Kong Art 1997 – 2007” (Chinese Arts Centre,
Manchester, UK., 2007), “Take Me with You (Contemporary Art Exhibition, Loewe 160 Anniversary)”(Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; 2006), “Light on Chinart
Generation” (Palazzo Capponi all’Annunziata, Florence, Italy, 2006), and “The Third Asia-Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art” (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 1999). Shieh lives andworks in Hong Kong.
Sun Yuan (b.1974, Heilongjiang, China) and Peng Yu (b. 1972, Beijing, China) graduated from theCentral Academy of Fine Arts (Oil Painting Department), Beijing in 1998 and 1995 respectively. Theirwork is exhibited extensively and is shown in Australia, USA, UK, China.They have participated innumerous solo exhibitions, the most recent being “Hong Kong Intervention” (Institute of Contemporary
Art- Gallery 1, Lasalle College of The Arts, Singapore, 2012). Selected group exhibitions include “Art ofChange-New Directions From China” (Hayward Gallery, London, 2012), ”dOCUMENTA(13) WorldlyHouse _ Returning material” (Kassel, 2012), “Sydney Biennale 2010- The Beauty of Distance: Songsof Survival in a Precarious Age” (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010) and “The Revolution
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Continues: New Chinese Art”(The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2008). Both Sun and Peng live andwork in Beijing.
Tintin Wulia (b. 1972, Denpasar, Indonesia) has received a Bachelor of Music (Film Scoring) from
Berklee College of Music, USA and a Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) from Universitas Katolik
Parahyangan, Indonesia in 1997 and 1998 respectively. She is also a recipient of the Australian
Postgraduate Award for her practice-led research PhD in art at Royal Melbourne Institute ofTechnology University, Sydney. She has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, the most recent
being “Subjektive Projektionen: Tintin Wulia” (Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany, 2011). Her works
have been shown in major international exhibitions including “11th Sharjah Biennale” (United ArabEmirates, 2013), “7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art” (Gallery of Modern Art; Queensland
Art Gallery; Brisbane, Australia, 2012), “4th Moscow Biennale: Rewriting Worlds” (Russia, 2011),“Manifesto of a New Aesthetics: Seven Artists from Indonesia” (Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Singapore, 2010), “Beyond the Dutch” (Centraal Museum, Netherlands, 2009), “38th International Film
Festival” (screening, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009), “Trial Balloons” (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Castilla y León, Spain, 2006), and “9th Istanbul Biennial” (Istanbul, Turkey, 2005). This year, Wulia
will be exhibiting Biennale Jogja XII in Indonesia. Her works have entered collections of notable
institutions such as Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands; Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art
Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Australia. Wulia lives and works in Melbourne and Denpasar.

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APPENDIX B
MARKET FORCES: THE FRICTION OF OPPOSITESABOUT THE CURATORS AND ARTISTSCURATORARTISTS

Joselina Cruz is an independent curator andalso writes essays, reviews and criticism. Cruz
studied Art History at the University of thePhilippines and holds an MA in Curating andCommissioning Contemporary Art from theRoyal College of Art (RCA), London, UK. Cruzis the Director/Curator for Museum ofContemporary Art and Design, Manila,
Philippines. She worked previously as thecurator for the Lopez Memorial Museum in
Manila (2001-04) and the Singapore Art
Museum (2004–07). She was appointed as
curator of 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008) and
one of the networking curators for the 13th
Jakarta Biennale (Indonesia, 2009).

Pio Abad (b. 1983, Manila, Philippines) began
his fine art studies at the University of thePhilippines and received a BA (hons) inPainting and Printmaking from Glasgow Schoolof Art in 2007. He graduated from Royal
Academy Schools, London, UK in 2012 with a
MA in Fine Art. Selected exhibitions include“London Open” (Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London, UK, 2012), “1986 – 2010” (Royal
Academy Schools Show, London, UK, 2012)
and“Bloomberg
New
Contemporaries”(Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art, UK,
2008)

Ark Fongsmut received his MA in Fine Art
Administration
andCuratorshipfromGoldsmiths College, London, and his MA and
BA in Political Science from Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok. He is a curator in Bangkok
University Gallery since 2000 and has produced
many important exhibitions and launchedinitiatives including the annual Brand New
Project and Artist Residency Programme. He
was also appointed chief curator of the 2004
and 2006 Month of Photography - Bangkok andco-curator of the International Singapore
Photography Festival 2008 and 2010.

Arin Rungjang (b. 1975, Thailand) graduatedfrom Silpakorn University in 2002 andparticipated in a program with the École
Nationale Supériure des Beaux Arts de Paris
with Professor Christian Boltanski in 2000.
Selected exhibitions include ““18th Biennale of
Sydney (Sydney, Australia, 2012), “Shanghai
Biennale” (City Pavillion, Bandung, Shanghai,
China, 2012) and “Singapore Biennale ‘Open
House’” (Singapore, 2011). In 2013 he will
represent Thailand at the Venice Biennale.

Lee Daehyung (b. 1974) is the founder &director of Hzone and the founder of theacclaimed organization “Korea Tomorrow”,“Happy Foundation”. His notable projects
include Korean Eye, a nonprofit foundation
dedicated to promoting contemporary Korean
art throughout the world, “Korean Eye Moon
Generation” at Saatchi Gallery in 2009, theannual exhibition “Korea Tomorrow”, the“Hyundai Card MoMA Curatorial Exchange
Program with Paola Antonelli” and co-curator of
Changwon Sculpture Biennale. In cooperation
with SKIRA, he worked as chief curator andauthor of Korean Eye: Contemporary KoreanArt, and also was in charge of organizing
content for Korean Beauty, the publication
introducing the beauty of Korean culture during
the G 20 Seoul Summit in 2010.

Han Jinsu graduated from Hongik University,
Seoul with a BFA and MFA in 1994 and 1999
respectively and received a MFA from The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007.
Selected exhibitions include, “Weight” (Zaha
museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2011), “Brown
River” (Roots and Culture Contemporary Art
Center, Chicago, USA, 2007), “Diverse Ways ofHappiness” (Aichi World EXPO, Nagoya,Japan, 2005). He is the recipient of the A
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship from The Schoolof the Art Institute of Chicago (2007) andreceived the 2005 Aichi EXPO Art Projectaward from Aichi EXPO Association.

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Lee Sangjun (b.1970) graduated with a BA,
MA and PhD from Hong-Ik University, Seoul,
Korea.
His exhibitions include “GATE”,(Gallery Duckwon, Seoul, 2010), “Paradise
Lost” (Kt&G Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul,2009), “2thInternational
Sculpture
Symposium”(Gwachun Central Park,
Gwachun, Korea, 2009), “Hi-Robot” (3.15 Art
Center, Masan, Korea, 2008) and “Between”(Kunst Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, 2005).
Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969, Fujian, China) graduatedfrom the China Academy of Art – Printmaking
department – in 1992. Selected exhibitions
include “The 53rd Venice Biennale, Chinese
Pavilion” (Venice, Italy, 2009), “The Real Thing:Contemporary Chinese Art” (Tate Liverpool,UK, 2007), “6th Gwangju Biennale” (South
Korea, 2006), “International Triennale ofContemporary Art” (Yokohama, Japan, 2005),“Technology of Visible" at the 5th Shanghai
Biennial” (Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai,
China, 2004), “25th São Polo Biennial” (SãoPolo, Brazil, 2002) and “New Art in China, Post1989” (City Hall, Hong Kong, 1993). In 2012 hewas co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale.

Chen Chenchen (b. 1987, Hangzhou, China)
received his MFA in Inter-Media Art in 2010
from The Studio of Total Art at China Art
Academy.
Selected
exhibitions
include“Reading At Night” (Golden Square Art Gallery,
London, UK, 2012), “New post photography”(Qianbo Gallery, Beijing, China, 2010), “Modern
Drawing Exhibition” (Japan, 2009) and“Experimental Space & Academy Field”(Guangzhou Academy of Art, Guangzhou,
China 2009).
Liu Jiajing (b. 1984, Hunan, China) currently
teaches at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine
Arts. Selected exhibitions include “Old Clothes”(Tongi Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2012) and“Look Up Together” (Shanghai Zendai MoMA,
Shanghai, China, 2009), “Echigo-Tsumari Art
Triennial 2012” (Tokamachi, Japan, 2012),"‘Endto End’ New Media Art Show” (Harvestworks
Digital Media Arts Center, New York, USA,2011).
Song Zhen (b. 1983, Zhang Jiakou, China)
received his BA in 2007 and MA in 2010 in
Mixed Media Art at the China Academy of Art,
Hangzhou. Selected exhibitions include “9thShanghai Biennale: Reactivation” (Shanghai,
China, 2012), “Reading At Night” (Golden
Square Art Gallery, London, UK, 2012) andPINK is the new Red (Chelsea College of Art,
London, UK, 2008). Song currently lives andworks in Hangzhou where he teaches in the
Mixed Media Art Department at the China
Academy of Art.
Zhao Jingyan (b. 1985, Yingkou, China) iscurrently an instructor at the China Academy of
Art in the Comprehensive Art Department. Zhao
has exhibited in group shows internationallysuch as: “9th Shanghai Biennial” (Bihu
Exhibition Center, Zhangzhou, China, 2012),“15th Shanghai Art Fair (Shanghai Exhibition
Center, Shanghai, China, 2011), “Reading At
Night” (Golden Square Art Gallery, London, UK,2012), “Goethe Nacht New Media Arts Festival”(Beijing, China 2008), “CO2008 Young Artists
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Group Show” (New York, USA, 2008) and “TheWall of China In Lyons (Lyons, France, 2005).
Alia Swastika (b. 1980, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
is an independent curator and writer. From2002 - 2004, Swastika was Associate Editor for
SURAT and Artistic Manager at Cemeti Art
House. Since 2008 she has curated exhibitions
for Ark Galerie, Jakarta. In 2005, with a grantfrom Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), shejoined the staff exchange programme in
UfaFabrik, Berlin, Germany. In 2006, she
received a grant from Asian Cultural Council toconduct a research and internship at The Asia
Society, New York. Her curatorial projects
include, “Marker Program” (a presentation ofIndonesian artists, Art Dubai, United ArabEmirates, 2012), “Manifesto: The New Aestheticof Seven Indonesian Artists” (Institute ofContemporary Arts, Singapore, 2010), “The
Past The Forgotten Time” (Amsterdam, Jakarta,
Semarang, Shanghai, Singapore, 2007–2008)
She was appointed as a co-curator of the Jogja
Biennale (Indonesia, 2011) with Suman
Gopinath (India) and one of the co-artistic
directors of Gwangju Biennale IX (South Korea,2012).

Wisnu Auri (b. 1981, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
graduated from the Indonesian Institute of Arts,
Yogyakarta in 2008 and specialized inprintmaking. His works have been exhibited
extensively throughout Southeast Asia including“ART JOG 12” (Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia, 2012), “Speak of” (Jogja National
Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2011), and“Biennale Jogja X” (Galeri Nasional Jakarta,
Indonesia, 2009).
Iswanto Hartono (b. 1972, Purworejo,
Indonesia) completed his MFA at the Jakarta
Institute of Arts in 2000. Selected exhibitions
include: “Museum of Innocence” (Galeri Canna,
Grand Indonesia Lower Ground, Jakarta,
Indonesia, 2010), “Mood Indigo” (Gasatelier
Landeshaupstadt, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2009),“Mellow” (Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan 2007) and“Manifesto of The New Aesthetics: 7 Artists fromIndonesia” (Lasalle College, Singapore, 2010).
Roslisham Ismail (b. 1972, Kelantan,
Malaysia) graduated with a BA Fine Art fromthe University Technology Mara (UiTM),
Selangor, Malaysia in 1997. Ismail is a cofounder of Sentap magazine with Nur hanim
Khairuddin and is the Director and Co-ordinatorof parkingproject, an artist run project based in
Kuala Lumpur. Selected exhibitions include“Asia Pacific Triennale” (Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2012), “OpenHouse” (3rd Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art
Museum, 2011) and “9th Istanbul Biennale”(Istanbul, Turkey, 2005).
Dane Mitchell (b. 1976, Auckland, New
Zealand) received his Bachelor of Visual Arts
(exchange programme) with Honours from theCarnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA,
USA in 1997; a BA in 1998 with a focus on
Sculpture and a Masters of Philosophy (Art &Design) in 2012 from the Auckland Institute ofTechnology in New Zealand. Selectedexhibitions include “Gwangju Biennale 2012”(South Korea, 2012), “Liverpool Biennial 2012”(UK, 2012), “Singapore Biennale” (Singapore,2011), “29th Graphic Arts Biennial, Ljubljana”(Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia,2011) and “Busan Biennale 2010” (South
Korea, 2010).
Melati Suryodarmo (b. 1969, Surakarta,
Indonesia) received a degree in International
Relations Studies from Universitas Padjadjaran
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in 1993. In 2001 at the Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Braunschweig, Germany, she received
Degree in Fine Art, with a focus on performanceart and sculpture, studying under Professor
Anzu Furukawa and Professor Marina
Abramovic; and also completed a Postgraduate
Program (Meisterschule) in Performance Art in
2002. Her exhibitions include the 50th Venice
Biennale 2003, Videobrasil Sao Paolo (2005),
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 52nd Venice
Biennale Dance Festival (2007), KIASMA
Helsinki (2007), Manifesta7, in Bolzano, Italy(2008). Suryodarmo has lived and worked inGermany since 1994.
Charwei Tsai (b. 1980, Taipei, Taiwan) is an
artist and also publishes, edits and designs
Lovely Daze, a contemporary art periodical
released biannually. Tsai received a Bachelorof Fine Arts in Industrial Design and a
Certificate in Art & Architecture History from the
Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 andgraduated from the Postgraduate Research
Program La Seine at L’École Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2010.
Selected exhibitions include “Dojima River
Biennale” (Osaka, Japan, 2013), “Sharjah
Biennale” (United Arab Emirates, 2013),“Phantoms of Asia” (Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco, USA, 2012), “Yokohama Triennale”(Yokohama, Japan, 2011), “Traces of the
Sacred” (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France, 2008) and “Thermocline of Art: New
Asian Waves” (Zentrum für Kunst undMedientechnologie,
Karlsruhe,
Germany,
2007).
Osage Art Foundation was established in
2004 with three main goals - Creative
Communities,
CulturalCooperation
andCreative Capacity and has since played an
active role in developing education and trainingof
young
people,broadening
culturalawareness and participation in artistic
endeavours, nurturing creativity and criticalthinking and fostering international cultural
exchange. The Osage Art Foundation is now
known and recognised by the local community
and internationally as having initiated many
pioneering projects of international calibre.

Vivian Poon (b. 1982, Hong Kong) graduatedfrom the Department of Fine Arts at Chinese
University of Hong Kong in 2005. She has
participated in various exhibitions in Hong Kong
including “Box on Mama’s Wardrobe” (UMA G
Gallery, 2007), “Just A Little Ladies’ Talk” (Blue
Lotus Gallery, 2008), “Artwalk Extra, Hong
Kong Artwalk 2011” (Central, 2011), “Recycling
Love: A Pop-up Store of the Most Precious
Object from Our Beloved Artists” (G16, 2011),
Kai Tak River Green Art Fest (Kowloon City,
2012), “Painting On and On: 1. The Repositoryof Coherent Babbles” (Southsite, 2012), and“Hidden Track” (Art Experience Gallery, 2013).
Alvin Zafra (b. 1978, Quezon City, Philippines)
graduated from University of the Philippines
College of Fine Arts, Diliman, Quezon City in
2000.
Selected
exhibitions
include“Meditations Biennale” (National Museum,
Poznan, Poland, 2012),“Complete and20Unabridged 2” (Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong,
2011), “Bisa: Potent Presences” (Metropolitan
Museum of Manila, Philippines, 2011),“Medicine and Art” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,
Japan, 2009), “Thrice Upon a Time” (Singapore
Art Museum 2009), “Futuramanila” (Osage
Singapore; Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong,
2008), “Room 307” (National Art Gallery,
Manila, Philippines, 2008) and “The Topology of
Signs” (Cultural Center of the Philippines,
Pasay City, Philippines, 1999).
Nilo Ilarde (b. 1960, Philippines) received a
Bachelor of Fine Art (major in painting) from
College of Fine Arts, University of thePhilippines. He was the Exhibition Director of
Pinaglabanan Galleries from 1984-1985, andsince 1980 has been working as Curator ofvarious exhibitions. His selected exhibitions
include “I Miss the 20th Century” (Manila
Contemporary, Philippines, 2011), “Completeand Unabridged, Part I” (Institute ofContemporary Art, Lasalle College of The Arts,
Singapore, 2011), “I Have Nothing to Paint
and I'm Painting It” (Inaugural exhibition,
MO_space, Philippines, 2007) and “6 Artists”(Museum of Philippine Art, Manila, Philippines,
1983).
Jin Shan (b. 1977, Jiangsu Province, China)
graduated from Faculty of Fine Art at East
China Normal University in 2000. Selectedexhibitions include “It Came from the Sky”
(Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
USA, 2011), “Stephen the Speculator” (DDM
Warehouse, Shanghai, China, 2009), “Shoot”(ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2008), “X Baltic
Triennial of International Art” (Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2009), “New World
Order” (Groninger Museum, Netherland, 2008),“Migration Addicts” (52nd Venice Biennale, Italy,2007), “Singapore Biennale” (Singapore, 2006).
Joshua Oppenheimer (b.1974, Texas, USA)has worked for over a decade with militias,
death squads and their victims to explore therelationship between political violence and the
public imagination. Educated at Harvard andCentral St Martins, London, his award-winningfilms include THE GLOBALIZATION TAPES(2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn), THE
ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA
PURCHASE (1998, Gold Hugo, Chicago Film
Festival, Telluride Film Festival), THESE
PLACES WE’VE LEARNED TO CALL HOME
(1996, Gold Spire, San Francisco Film Festival)
and numerous shorts. Oppenheimer is SeniorResearcher on the UK Arts and Humanities
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Research Council’s Genocide and Genre
project and has published widely on these
themes.
Au Hoi Lam (b. 1978 Hong Kong) is a graduateof the Chinese University of Hong Kong with the
Degrees of Bachelor of Arts with Honours(2001), Master of Fine Arts (2004) and Masterof Philosophy (2009).
She has had nine solo
exhibitions in Hong Kong at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (1999, 2003, 2004),
Tone Quarters, Hong Kong Central Library,
Hong Kong University Graduate House, Edge
Gallery and Muji Atelier. Since 1999 she has
participated in 34 group exhibitions in Hong
Kong, Korea and China.

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ABOUT OSAGE GALLERYOsage Gallery was established in Hong Kong in 2004 and grew quickly to become one of Asia’s
largest commercial gallery groups. Osage has become well known in art circles in Asia and in the art
world internationally for its uncompromising support for the most challenging and critically thoughtprovoking contemporary art.
Osage Gallery is an interdisciplinary platform devoted to the exhibition and promotion of internationaland Asian contemporary visual arts. Osage‘s spaces function synergistically to explore the diverse andcomplex artistic relationships between the different regions of Asia and, beyond that, the artistic
relationships between Asia and other parts of the world.
Osage operates three major spaces in Hong Kong in the newly developing central business district ofEast Kowloon. Osage Gallery is part of the Osage group encompassing the Osage Art Foundation,
Osage Art Consultancy and Osage Design.
Please visit www.osagegallery.com for more information.

ABOUT OSAGE ART FOUNDATIONAll of the Osage Group businesses support the international not-for-profit Osage Art Foundation in
cash and in kind.
The Osage Art Foundation was established in 2004 with three main goals - Creative Communities,
Cultural Cooperation and Creative Capacity and has since played an active role in developing
education and training of young people, broadening cultural awareness and participation in artistic
endeavours, nurturing creativity and critical thinking and fostering international cultural exchange.
The Osage Art Foundation is now known and recognised by the local community and internationally as
having initiated many pioneering projects.
The current focus of the Osage Art Foundation is on developing deeper discourse in and around thearts and in the wider community. We believe that research, analysis, examination and promulgationof issues pertaining to society, contemporary culture and value by artists, writers, critic, curators andcommentators will build better understanding of regional perspectives throughout Asia and to the wider
world beyond.
To date in 2013 the Osage Art Foundation has presented the Andy Warhol exhibition “Hello It’s Me,
Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema”, curated by Yason Banal and Geralyn Huxley, jointly-presented by
The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is preparing thesecond in its series of non-profit “Market Forces” exhibitions, “The Friction of Opposites”, that will openin Hong Kong in May 2013. This exhibition will be an alternative platform discussing broader issues in
the intrinsic value of art rather than market driven art. This will open at around the same time as Art
Basel Hong Kong

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