Yu Shuk Pui Bobby
is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who explores the fragile intersections between body, memory, and cultural translation. Her practice moves fluidly between theoretical inquiry and personal vulnerability, weaving critical perspectives, humour, and tender everyday details into layered narrative spaces.
Working across moving image, installation, performance, and text, Bobby investigates how trauma and intergenerational silences seep into our language, gestures, and ways of being seen. She is particularly drawn to “transitional spaces” — thresholds between languages and identities, health and illness, the living and the spectral — spaces marked by rupture as well as potential repair.
She approaches these uncertain territories as spaces for listening: to the suppressed, the misheard, the subtle bodily signals that slip through dominant narratives. Her studio functions simultaneously as a laboratory, a diagnostic room, and at times, a site for shared rituals, where personal and collective experiences continuously blur and transform.
While her work often engages with heavy themes, Bobby embraces humour as a survival strategy — a gentle yet radical tool for reimagining painful histories. She believes that small, sensory gestures — a shared meal, a mispronounced word, a fleeting bodily slip — can become unexpected sites of transformation and connection.
Her solo exhibition The Piles We Carry at UKS, Oslo, reflects an ongoing shift in her practice towards more relational methodologies and embodied research. In this project, she explored the bodily and emotional debts inherited within family systems, developing speculative repair rituals that intertwine personal family narratives with elements of science fiction. Audiences were invited into a slow, porous, and continuously shifting process of transformation — moving between discomfort and playfulness, rupture and reconnection.
Dividing her time between Hong Kong and Oslo, Bobby also collaborates extensively with migrant communities, women’s collectives, and family members, developing video-based projects that navigate the porous borders of language and cultural identity. Her works inhabit spaces that oscillate between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into gradual processes of disassembly, reconfiguration, and subtle resistance.
Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Shophouse (2024), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2022), Para Site (2017), and Tomorrow Maybe (2017) in Hong Kong; UKS (2025), VI VII (2024), Podium (2022), K4 Gallery (2021), and Kunstnernes Hus (2021) in Oslo; as well as institutions and residencies in Shanghai, Tokyo, Florida, and Iceland. In 2023, she was awarded Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong.
余淑培（Yu Shuk Pui Bobby）是一位藝術家、影像創作者及研究者，專注探索身體、記憶與文化翻譯之間的脆弱交界。她的創作游移於理論性探索與個人脆弱之間，結合批判視角、幽默感及溫柔的日常細節，構築出多層次的敘事空間。
她的作品橫跨錄像、裝置、表演與文字，關注創傷與代際沉默如何滲入我們的語言、動作與被觀看的方式。她特別著迷於「過渡性空間」——語言與身份、健康與疾病、生者與幽靈之間的臨界狀態，這些既是斷裂，也是可能修復的可能性。
余氏傾向把這些不確定性視為傾聽的場所：傾聽那些被壓抑、被誤聽、被遺忘的細微聲音與肢體暗示。她將工作室視為一個混合空間——既是實驗室、診斷間，有時也是一處共享儀式的現場，個人與集體的經驗在此不斷交錯、滲透。
雖然作品多觸及沉重主題，余氏亦視幽默為一種生存策略。她相信，那些小而微的感官行動——如一頓共享的飯、一個發音錯誤、一個身體的微小滑動——都可能成為轉化與連結的契機。
她於奧斯陸 UKS 舉辦的個展《The Piles We Carry》標誌著其創作轉向更關注關係性方法與身體性研究的重要節點。此計畫透過探討面對家族遺留的身體與情感債務，發展出一系列修復性的推測儀式。她結合個人家族敘事與科幻元素，邀請觀眾參與一個緩慢、滲透、持續變動的轉化過程——在不適與遊戲性、斷裂與重新連結之間游移。
長期往返於香港與奧斯陸之間的余氏，亦持續與移民社群、女性團體及家庭成員合作，發展以錄像為基礎的多層次計畫，並在語言與文化的邊界中持續探尋。她的作品往往處於現實與想像之間，邀請觀眾進入一個逐步解構、重組與細膩抵抗的場域。
余氏畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術學士課程，並於奧斯陸國立美術學院取得藝術碩士學位。其作品曾於多個國際展覽空間展出，包括香港的 The Shophouse（2024）、香港醫學博物館（2022）、Para Site（2017）及 Tomorrow Maybe（2017）；挪威的UKS（2025）、 VI VII（2024）、Podium（2022）、K4 Gallery（2021）及 Kunstnernes Hus（2021）；以及上海、東京、佛羅里達州與冰島等地的藝術機構及駐村單位。她的短片作品於2023年第17屆香港鮮浪潮短片節榮獲最佳導演獎。
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is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who explores the fragile intersections between body, memory, and cultural translation. Her practice moves fluidly between theoretical inquiry and personal vulnerability, weaving critical perspectives, humour, and tender everyday details into layered narrative spaces.
Working across moving image, installation, performance, and text, Bobby investigates how trauma and intergenerational silences seep into our language, gestures, and ways of being seen. She is particularly drawn to “transitional spaces” — thresholds between languages and identities, health and illness, the living and the spectral — spaces marked by rupture as well as potential repair.
She approaches these uncertain territories as spaces for listening: to the suppressed, the misheard, the subtle bodily signals that slip through dominant narratives. Her studio functions simultaneously as a laboratory, a diagnostic room, and at times, a site for shared rituals, where personal and collective experiences continuously blur and transform.
While her work often engages with heavy themes, Bobby embraces humour as a survival strategy — a gentle yet radical tool for reimagining painful histories. She believes that small, sensory gestures — a shared meal, a mispronounced word, a fleeting bodily slip — can become unexpected sites of transformation and connection.
Her solo exhibition The Piles We Carry at UKS, Oslo, reflects an ongoing shift in her practice towards more relational methodologies and embodied research. In this project, she explored the bodily and emotional debts inherited within family systems, developing speculative repair rituals that intertwine personal family narratives with elements of science fiction. Audiences were invited into a slow, porous, and continuously shifting process of transformation — moving between discomfort and playfulness, rupture and reconnection.
Dividing her time between Hong Kong and Oslo, Bobby also collaborates extensively with migrant communities, women’s collectives, and family members, developing video-based projects that navigate the porous borders of language and cultural identity. Her works inhabit spaces that oscillate between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into gradual processes of disassembly, reconfiguration, and subtle resistance.
Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Shophouse (2024), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2022), Para Site (2017), and Tomorrow Maybe (2017) in Hong Kong; UKS (2025), VI VII (2024), Podium (2022), K4 Gallery (2021), and Kunstnernes Hus (2021) in Oslo; as well as institutions and residencies in Shanghai, Tokyo, Florida, and Iceland. In 2023, she was awarded Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong.
余淑培（Yu Shuk Pui Bobby）是一位藝術家、影像創作者及研究者，專注探索身體、記憶與文化翻譯之間的脆弱交界。她的創作游移於理論性探索與個人脆弱之間，結合批判視角、幽默感及溫柔的日常細節，構築出多層次的敘事空間。
她的作品橫跨錄像、裝置、表演與文字，關注創傷與代際沉默如何滲入我們的語言、動作與被觀看的方式。她特別著迷於「過渡性空間」——語言與身份、健康與疾病、生者與幽靈之間的臨界狀態，這些既是斷裂，也是可能修復的可能性。
余氏傾向把這些不確定性視為傾聽的場所：傾聽那些被壓抑、被誤聽、被遺忘的細微聲音與肢體暗示。她將工作室視為一個混合空間——既是實驗室、診斷間，有時也是一處共享儀式的現場，個人與集體的經驗在此不斷交錯、滲透。
雖然作品多觸及沉重主題，余氏亦視幽默為一種生存策略。她相信，那些小而微的感官行動——如一頓共享的飯、一個發音錯誤、一個身體的微小滑動——都可能成為轉化與連結的契機。
她於奧斯陸 UKS 舉辦的個展《The Piles We Carry》標誌著其創作轉向更關注關係性方法與身體性研究的重要節點。此計畫透過探討面對家族遺留的身體與情感債務，發展出一系列修復性的推測儀式。她結合個人家族敘事與科幻元素，邀請觀眾參與一個緩慢、滲透、持續變動的轉化過程——在不適與遊戲性、斷裂與重新連結之間游移。
長期往返於香港與奧斯陸之間的余氏，亦持續與移民社群、女性團體及家庭成員合作，發展以錄像為基礎的多層次計畫，並在語言與文化的邊界中持續探尋。她的作品往往處於現實與想像之間，邀請觀眾進入一個逐步解構、重組與細膩抵抗的場域。
余氏畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術學士課程，並於奧斯陸國立美術學院取得藝術碩士學位。其作品曾於多個國際展覽空間展出，包括香港的 The Shophouse（2024）、香港醫學博物館（2022）、Para Site（2017）及 Tomorrow Maybe（2017）；挪威的UKS（2025）、 VI VII（2024）、Podium（2022）、K4 Gallery（2021）及 Kunstnernes Hus（2021）；以及上海、東京、佛羅里達州與冰島等地的藝術機構及駐村單位。她的短片作品於2023年第17屆香港鮮浪潮短片節榮獲最佳導演獎。
✉ CONTACT ✉
✉ DOWNLOAD FULL CV ✉
✉ INTERVIEW with UKS ✉
✉ INTERVIEW with Merel Bem ✉
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
2023 Best Director - 17th Freshwave Film Festival / Hong Kong
2022 Best Editing - Best Editiing Alternative Film Festiva / Toronto
Scholarship of Snorre Andersen, Maleren Ambrosius Egedius og Hustrus Legat (SAMAEHL) - Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Norway
2021 Kunstnernes Hus, Fondet for Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) - Studio Grant / Norway
2020 King’s College London - Longlist of the Ivan Juritz Prize
2017 AVA HKBU and The Art of CUHK - Honourable Mention of Vitamin D Award / Hong Kong
2014 Golden Sugarcane Film Festival - Best Actress / Taiwan
2013 Art Experience Gallery - 1st First Smash Art Project / Hong Kong
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Oslo Norway
Fotografiens hus - Curses, Human-faced Fish & Sadako Yamamura / Oslo
Open Source Gallery - Future Debt. Return Today. / New York City
2024 VI, VII - Hand in Hand into Havoc / Oslo
The Shophouse / Hong Kong
2023 Kongsberg Kunstforening / Kongsberg Norway
2022 Isotop Felle Atelier / Bergen Norway
Podium - The Remains of Genetic Salon / Oslo
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
2022 Loftet@Kunstnernes Hus (w/ Ole Petter Ribe )- FKDs Artists Duo Show / Oslo
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
2024
Galleri Hi10 - Video art program / Skien Norway
NADA East Broadway - Norway Scene Report: 24-Hour Sun, 24-Hour Moon / New York City
Blindspot Gallery - Play and Loop VI / Hong Kong
Tenthaus & 413 BETA - Daddy’s Dinner / Oslo & Seoul
The Shophouse - Gentle Again / Hong Kong
2023
QB Gallery / Oslo Norway
2022
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences- Post Human Narratives - In the name of scientific witchery (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) - Genetic Salon (video) / Hong Kong
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 SCREENINGS
2024 29th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva)
2023 17th Hong Kong Freshwave Film Festival & Competition
2021 ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL(AMIFF) / Norway
SELECTED FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS
2023
FUTURES - Europe-based photography platform
Oslo Negative
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
2025 FUTURES / Amsterdam
2024 PARADISE AIR / Tokyo
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 & ARTIST TALKS
2022 Para-Site - P.S. Studio Visit (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) /Online
2021 Radio Tenthaus (w/ Wei Ting Zeng and Jinbin Chen) / Oslo
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