Unit 303 Harbour Industrial Centre, No. 10 Lee Hing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, China
Kacey Wong experimental art project investigates the poetics of space between men and their living environment. Kacey was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the recipient of Rising Artist Award and the Outstanding Arts Education Award given by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2003. Kacey studied architecture in CornellUniversity and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from ChelseaSchool of Art and Design and Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is now an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Environment and Interior Design Discipline. Kacey curated many art exhibitions exploring issues of space and city: Home (1999), Personal Skyscraper (2000), City Space (2001), & DriftCity (2001, 2002) and exhibited both local and internationally. Kacey started his DriftCity photo series since year 2000, dressing up as a skyscraper traveling from cities to cities in search for utopia. His mobile home tricycle project Wandering Homes was selected to be feature at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale in Italy and his floating house Paddling Home project sailed on Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong was the star feature in 2010 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture exhibition.
Best Arist of the Year Award 2009 Hong Kong Arts Development Award, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Rising Artist Award Hong Kong Arts Development Award, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Outstanding Arts Education Award Hong Kong Arts Development Award, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Education
2003 1998
1994
Doctor of Fine Arts [D.F.A.] Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Master of Arts [M.A. Sculpture] Chelsea School of Arts and Design, London Bachelor of Architecture [B. Arch] Cornell University, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2009
2008
2002
2001
ARTmosphere Art Installation Atrium of Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Drifting Thoughts Goethe Institute, HK Po Lam MTR Station Permanent Art Collectiion Po Lam MTR Station, HK Art Window Project Joyce Store Central, HK Drift City G.O.D. Art Space, HK
2000
10 Boxes, Kacey Wong Solo Exhibition John Batten Gallery, HK
1999
Destroy Them! Interactive Sculpture by Kacey Wong, Para/Site Central, Hanart Tz Gallery, HK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong Two Wongs Going To the Sea Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Response Exhibition of the 11th International Architecture exhibition of Venice Biennale Hong Kong Exhibition, Fabrica Cultura Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Hong Kong Subvision art Festival Hamburg, Germany Dwelling Osage, Hong Kong Cardboard Project, October Contemporary Scratch, Hong Kong Central Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition International Finance Centre Green Lawn, Hong Kong Around Sound Festival Kapok, Hong Kong Oasis, Mirage, Hong Kong International Sculpture Exhibition West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Hong Kong Hollywood Road ART Quarters Former Hollywood Road Police Quarters, Hong Kong Reanimating Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong Cattle 101 @ Artist Village Artist Commune, Hong Kong Pawnshop Vitamin Creative Space, China Think Outside, Look Inside, Muse x Hong Kong Artists Exhibition Times Square, Harbour City, Festival Walk, Hong Kong Drawing Out Conversations: Hong Kong Leg Studio Bibliotheque, Hong Kong Parasite Fundraising Auction Kee Club, Hong Kong 6th Gongju International Art Festival Lim Lip Museum, South Korea This is Hong Kong Videos Barcelona, Spain
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
11th Venice International Architecture Biennale Exhibition Arsenale, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Living in Kowloon West II Temporary builing in Sham Shui Po, HK Hong Kong Sculpture Biennale Artist Commune, HK Ink in Motion Artist Commune, HK Hong Kong Unveiled, Contemporary Art in the SAR Atting House, HK Public Housing 20/20 MOST, HK Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas, Artists who Reclaim Space Artist Commune, HK Refabricating City - Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture Former Central Police Station, HK King of Kowloon Street Calligraphy Exhibition Telford Plaza, HK Visual Arts Thematic Exhibition, HarmoNow 3D & Installation Art Exhibition Central Library, HK 0771 Photography Exhibition C&G Artpartment, HK Among Others July 1st Demostration, Para/site Art Space , HK 10 Years of Image - A Gift to Hong Kong's Too Art, HK Re-Opening of Victoria Prison Art Museum Victoria Prison, HK Primitive Contemporary - Animation Art Exhibition Artist Commune, HK Pangyo Newtown International Art Fence Design Exhibition Pangyo Newtown, PIDC, Seoul Silent Encounter Blue Heaven Lighting, HK A Closer Look Lane Crawford Admiralty, HK In The Box Langham Place, HK Moonstruck: Hong Kong Artist's Biennale 64 Club, HK Urbanart Para/site Art Space, Melbourneconnectionasia 04, Melbourne The Art School Lecturer Exhibition 2004 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Pao Galleries, HK Para/Site:Open Work Centre A, Vancouver Behold! God... John Batten Gallery, HK Local Accent [12 artists from Hong Kong] Pickled Art Centre, Beijing 14th Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003 HK Museum of Art, HK Paysage Portable Exhibition Ox Warehouse, Macau The Re-appearance of Tsang Tsou Choi The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Center, HK A Time Like This... Hong Kong Arts Centre, Pao Galleries, HK House Warming Para/Site Art Space, HK Nice Party The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Center, HK
2002
Social Club Para/Site Art Space, HK RED Alan Chan Gallery, HK The Gambling Show John Batten Gallery, HK
2001
Behind The Eyeballs Visual Art Center, HK 13th Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001 HK Museum of Art, HK City Space, Mysterious Installation in the City Para/site Art Space, HK
2000
USEby Asia Pacific Artist Initiatives Project Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Double Space - Post Colonialism Exhibition Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Inventions Web Project Festival of Visions Hong Kong, Berlin, www.hongkongberlin.net Personal Skyscraper Para/site Art Space, HK Festival of Young Experimental Art Festival of Visions Hong Kong, Berlin, Tamma Site, HK Video Circle 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK and Berlin Mayonnaise + Modular 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
1999
Materia Prima West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Pyong Taek City 7th International Art Festival Pyong Taek Cultural Centerl, South Korea Millennium Gold For Eternity Art Exhibition World Gold Council, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre, HK Chinese Installation Seminar & Documentary Exhibition Artist Commune, HK Home Work in Oil Street Installation underneath Eastern highway, 1a Gallery, HK Home Fringe Festival, Para/Site Art Space, HK Small Scale Sculpture Confederation of Hong Kong Visual Artists, China-Hong Kong-Taiwan
1998
Inner Space / Outer Space Jibby Beane Contemporary, London
Curiosity Containers Void Gallery, London
1997
Ghost Encounter Para/Site Art Space, HK
1996
Cultural Chop Shui 2 Fringe Gallery, HK
Restricted Exposure, Private Content : Public View Fringe Festival, City Hall, HK
1995
Exposure [Hong Kong Young Architect Show] Visual Art Center, HK
1994
HKG / SYD / HKG New Works by 40 Sydney & Hong Kong Artists Fringe Gallery, HK City Colours City University 10th Anniversary Art Exhibition City University of Hong Kong, HK
