Lam Wai Kit
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Lam Wai Kit | |
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| 林慧潔 Lin Huijie | |
| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) Hong Kong, China |
| Education | Goldsmiths College The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Known for | Photography, video art, mixed media |
Lam Wai Kit (Chinese: 林慧潔; pinyin: Lin Huijie; born 1966) is a Chinese artist born in Hong Kong. Lam graduated with her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK in 1996. In 2003, she graduated with her MFA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.[citation needed]
Lam's media included photography, video art and mixed media. From 1996, she held several solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Italy and Canada. Her works have been collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum,[1][better source needed] and also private collections in UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Canada, America, Australia, and Hong Kong.[2] Selected works by Lam, Divided Minds (22) (2006) and Divided Minds (36) (2006), are featured on Google Cultural Institute's Google Art Project.[3]
Lam is also an art educator and is now teaching at several art institutes in visual art and cultural studies.[4] Lam works in a variety of media, including installation, photography, and video art.[citation needed]
Solo exhibitions
1996
- Change / Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
1997
- Beyond Colours / Dragon's Back Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
1998
- This is you; this is not you / Agfa Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
2000
- Frozen Words II - Dialogues within Oneself / First Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Hong Kong
- Frozen Words / The Gallery, Art Forest, Toronto, Canada
- The Secret Gardens / Montblanc Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
2002
- Displacement / First Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Hong Kong
2004
- The Other / Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong
2007
- The Other Month; The Other Day / Schmidt Leica Photo Gallery, Hong Kong
- The Divided Minds V - Photography and video installation by Wai Kit Lam / Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2009
- Unknown - Works by Wai Kit Lam, Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme IV / Hong Kong Film Archive & Tse Wan Shan Centre, Hong Kong
2012
- Five Senses - A series of 5 videos by Wai Kit Lam / Aesop Cityplaza, Hong Kong
- Sleight - Wai Kit Lam / Lumenvisum, Hong Kong [5]
- Small But Great - photography, video art & sound by Wai Kit Lam / Casa Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Portugal
Residency programs participated
Source:[6]
- 2005/6 – 12: FUSE :: fusion: encoding future, Videotage / Hong Kong
- 2009/10 - 12: Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency / Berlin, Germany
- 2011/1: Fundación Valparaíso / Mojácar, Spain
- 2012/11: 12: LKV - Lademoen Kunstnerverkstede / Trondheim, Norway [7]
- 2012/3: Casa Monsaraz / Monsaraz, Portugal
- 2014/3: Lichtenberg Studios / Berlin, Germany
