Yu Shuk Pui Bobby
余淑培is a Hong Kong visual artist who now based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Her practice is focused on body culture in different contexts through the filter of her own experience. In recent years she has been examining the topic of human genetic engineering, looking at how this technology shapes our cognition and understanding of the body. Through the media of performance, text, installation, sculpture , and video, she aims to create scenarios that engage, and eventually, the audience become participants in her work.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. She has exhibited her works at Parasite,100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery, EC Gallery (Hong Kong);Galleri BOA, K4 Gallery(Oslo); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Listhus Gallery (Iceland). Bobby has completed residencies at 3331 Art Chiyoda (Tokyo), 435 Art Studio (Taiwan), Listhus Space (Iceland), and Athena Standard Residency (Athens).
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余淑培is a Hong Kong visual artist who now based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Her practice is focused on body culture in different contexts through the filter of her own experience. In recent years she has been examining the topic of human genetic engineering, looking at how this technology shapes our cognition and understanding of the body. Through the media of performance, text, installation, sculpture , and video, she aims to create scenarios that engage, and eventually, the audience become participants in her work.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. She has exhibited her works at Parasite,100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery, EC Gallery (Hong Kong);Galleri BOA, K4 Gallery(Oslo); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Listhus Gallery (Iceland). Bobby has completed residencies at 3331 Art Chiyoda (Tokyo), 435 Art Studio (Taiwan), Listhus Space (Iceland), and Athena Standard Residency (Athens).
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STUDIES
2019-2021 Oslo National Academy of the Arts / MFA Fine Arts
2015-2018 Hong Kong Baptist University / BA(Hons) Visual Arts
2012-2015 Hong Kong Design Institute / HD Visual Art and Culture
PRIZES AND GRANTS
2021 Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet) - Sound and Vision Fund - Project support / Norway
Visual Arts’ Remuneration Fund(BKV) - Project Support / Norway
Kunstnernes Hus, Fondet for Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) - Studio Grant / Norway
Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet) - Diverse Stipend for newly graduated artists / Norway
2020 Viken Filmsenter - Ung-filmstipend / Oslo
King’s College London - Longlist of the Ivan Juritz Prize
2018 Hong Kong Art Development Council - Cultural Exchange Fund
2017 AVA HKBU and The Art of CUHK - Honourable Mention of Vitamin D Award / Hong Kong
2016 Hong Kong Art Development Council - Cultural Exchange Fund
2014 Golden Sugarcane Film Festival - Best Actress / Taiwan
2013 Art Experience Gallery - 1st First Smash Art Project / Hong Kong
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 K4 Gallery - Genetic Salon Red Room / Oslo
Post-Human Narratives c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam - Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video interaction) /Online
Skylight KHiO - Genetic Salon PART I (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2019 Skylight KHiO - Genetic Salon Skylight 2019 (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2015 Art Fix Gallery - CV by Vagina / London
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2019 Hong Kong Community Radio HKCR - A series of Genetic Salon DJ Conferences (multimedia performance) / Hong Kong
2016 Mjólkurbúðin - Marriage-Seeking 2016 (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan - Examination (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan - POWER DUMPLINGS (performane) / Akureyri
2014 100ft. Gallery - The Woman (performance) / Hong Kong
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Akademironmmet (w/ Montserrat Llampallas) c: Jasper Siverts & Emilia Sølvsten - Unstable Monuments (installation) / Oslo
2017 100ft. Gallery (w/ Hui Serene Sze Lok)- Dimension Convertor - Artifical Waterfall (installation) / Hong Kong
2015 EC Gallery (w/ Sunday Lai) c: Jeff Leung - Half Day with Cloud (video installation)/ Hong Kong
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021
Karen Leung Foundation - The Extra Odinary Exhibition 2.0 - You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Cattle Depot Artist Village - Post Human Narratives - Common Ground (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) - Genetic Salon (installation) / Hong Kong
BOA - Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus - Struktura Time (c: Lesia Vasylchenko) - Genetic Salon (installation) / Oslo
SVETOVA 1 - Universal Wilderness (c: Zai Xu) - Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video) / Prague
Kunstnernus Hus - The Great Indoors (c: Pedro Gómez-Egaña) / Oslo
2020
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - SOLASTALGIC / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - Work the Muscle / Oslo
IESA Gallery - Willful Blindness (c: Yannie Hung & Anna Lataillade) - Wilfully Blindness (video) / Paris
Akademirommet - Hinne - Vase Piece (video) / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - Wilfully Blindness Painting Exhibition / Oslo
2019
Liu Art Museum - Strangers (c: Weitzu) / Taichung Taiwan
Kulturmejeriet - Fragile: the 2nd Röbäck Biennale (c: Audrius Pocius) / Umeå
Tomorrow Maybe Gallery - Yummy Gummy (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
Form Society & Hong Kong Artist Union - Drum & Voice Out! (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
2018
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU - Bad Grade Exhibition / Hong Kong
2017 Power Station of Art & Swatch Art Peach Hotel - LIGHT UP Therapy Resort (c: Tiffany Fung & Lu Siqiao) / Shanghai
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU - Plane Stories / Hong Kong
1a Space - Plentiful Pluralities / Hong Kong
Para-site - In Search of Miss Ruthless (c: Hera Chan & David Xu Borgonjon) - / Hong Kong
Kai Tak Campus HKBU - AVA BA Graduation Exhibition / Hong Kong
2016
Listhús Gallery - Group Exhibition / Ólafsfjördur Iceland
A Place Gallery & Studio - AGENCIES: embodiment / Florida
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Art Gallery - Dada Lives! / Ohio
Youkobo Art Space Gallery - Feminist Fan in Japan and Friends / Tokyo
2015
starproject - Perpetual Production & Consumption (c: Cecilia Lee) - You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Book in Times: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
2014
Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity - Macy is Homed (c: Ho Yuen) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Outside Reading: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
Hong Kong Design Institute - New Voices Talent Show / Hong Kong
2013
Art Experience Gallery - 1st First Smash (c: Aries Chan) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Eggwich / Hong Kong
SELECTED FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS 2021
Vigeland Musuem - Perfection/Speculation (c: PRAKSIS & Karmaklubb) / Norway
2019
ROM for Art and Architecture - Performance Art Oslo Festival / Hong Kong
2017
Connecting Space - Accidental Tourist Guide - Officealley (installation) / Hong Kong
2016
Hong Kong Art Gallery Association - The Gallery Walk - The Stretcher (performance) / Hong Kong
Listasumar - A! Performance Art Festival / Akureyri
RóT Project / Akureyri
Listasumar - Summer Art Festival / Akureyri
2015
Chorm Art - Tribe 15 Art Festival (c: Bea Kozlowska & Kris Cieslak) / London
7th Passion of Freedom / London
2012
7th YMCArts Wonder Land Festival / Hong Kong
SELECTED ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2021 PRAKSIS - Perfection/Speculation / Oslo
USF Bergen Artist in Residence / Bergen
2019 Lakkos Artists Residency / Crete
Athena Standards Residency / Athens
2016 Listhús Space / Ólafsfjördur
3331 Art Chiyoda / Tokyo
2014 435 Art Studio / Taipei
SPEECHES 2021 Asian Art Museum - After Hope Symposium / San Francisco
Post-Human Narratives - Artist Talk ft. ‘The Birth of Vtuber Riffisa’ / Online
PRAKSIS - Perfection/Speculation Panel Discussion: Discussing genes, memes and the modifiable body / Oslo
Royal College of Art - Fashion+Solstice 21 / London
2018 The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
PUBLICATIONS
2013 DOING - Independent Publishing / Hong Kong
2012 YOUTH - YMCAarts / Hong Kong