LAU Chi-Chung
劉智聰
Graduated from The Surry Institute of Art & Design University College (BFA on Interior Design). After spending 8 years in the Art Directing department of Television Commercials, Lau participated in Skyhigh Creative Partners as Creative Director from its very beginning through out the project’s 6 years running period. He has been participating in various campaigns / fields, including annual projects of clients including The Hong Kong Jockey Club, LKS foundation Hong Kong. In which Lau was involved in different media such as TVC, featurettes, music videos, music concert video projection, graphic design, event performance, photography, radio and online promotions.
Apart from gaining experience for himself, Lau has also been heavily involved in youth education, and hosted workshops for young people on video production, photography, graphic design and art education. He is the curator of Old Textbooks Showroom, a private gallery operated since 2015 - 2017, where people can reminisce how Hong Kong once was.
Lau is also an established artist in his own right starting out on short films and eventually focuses on photography for over a decade. His work has been exhibited in various countries, including Liverpool International Photography Festival, Argentina International Photography Festival, Singapore International Photography Festival, Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival, Athens Photo Festival, Angkor Photo Festival, and being collected by museums and private collectors. His photography series “Landscaped Artifacts” (2013) has gained him the New Photography Artist of the year from Lianzhoufoto Festival 2013. Lau received third prize of Hong Kong 1st Photobook Dummy Award 2021 at Hong Kong Photobook Festival for his latest work “ The Dayspring of Eternity”.
Chronology
1994-96 - Diploma in Interior Design, Caritas Bianchi College of Careers, Hong Kong
Publications
2021 - Forgive me for bidding farewell tonight, Self-Publishing, Hong Kong
2018 - Our Old Textbooks 2, Chung Hwa Book Company (Hong Kong) Limited, Hong Kong
2016 - Our Old Textbooks 1, Chung Hwa Book Company (Hong Kong) Limited, Hong Kong
2014 - Double Gaze, Self-Publishing, Hong Kong
2007 - The Only Day, Self-Publishing, Hong Kong
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 - “My Kind of Landscape” / Photography Exhibition at Lumenvisum, JCCAC / Hong Kong
2019 - the 15thLIANZHOU FOTO 2019 / Lianzhou, China
2014 - “Last Landscape” / Photography Exhibition at Lumenvisum, JCCAC / Hong Kong
2014 - "Double Gaze" / Photography Exhibition at miniminigallery / Hong Kong
2013 - Yuen Yueng, A Contemporary Photography Exhibition by 7 Hong Kong Artists / the 9thLIANZHOU FOTO / China
2007 - “The Only Day”1stpart / January, 2007 / An abandoned house on the hill, Cheung Chau 2ndpart / March, 2007 / Kapok, Hong Kong
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 - Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry / Tai Kwun JC Contemporary / Hong Kong
2017 - Composing Stories With Fragments Of Time / Karin Weber Gallery / Central, Hong Kong
2017 - Look/17 Liverpool International Photography Festival| Cities ofExchange: Liverpool: Hong Kong / Liverpool, UK
2016 - YUEN YEUNG "Contemporary Photography 7 artists from Hong Kong" / Festival of the Light of Buenos Aires Argentina 2016 / Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 - 1000 FAMILIES 4th Hong Kong International Photo Festival / TaiKoo Place ArtisTree / Hong Kong2016 July / Hong Kong Contemporary Photography Exhibition 2016 | JCCAC L0 Gallery / Hong Kong
2015 - Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival / Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre / Xiamen, China
2015 - Invisible Photographer Asia, Hong Kong & Taiwan Photographers Showcase / Angkor Photo Festival 2015 /Cambodia
2015 - The PhotoBook Exhibition/ Athens Photo Festival/ Athens, Greece
2014 - Open Call Showcase / the 4thSingapore International Photography Festival 2014 / Singapore
2013 - HKID Hong Kong Identity / A Contemporary Photography Exhibition / Chinese Museum / Melbourne, Australia
2013 - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 / The Hong Kong Museum of Art/ Hong Kong
2012 - Hong Kong Photography Series 3: Beyond the Portrait / Hong Kong Heritage Museum / Hong Kong
2011 - “Kotoba, Hong Kong Photographer Series / A Charity show for helping Japan” / Upper Station Photo Gallery / Hong Kong
2010 - “Five Sensations of Life” / July / Atelier Muji, Tsim Sha Tsui,/ , Part2 / September / Atelier Muji, Taikoo Plaza, Hong Kong
2008 - “HongKong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists who reclaim space” / Cattle Depot Artist Village / Hong Kong
2008 - “Folktale” (Art installation) / Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong
2008 - “Love From Hong Kong” / on behalf of HK Trade Development Council (TDC) / Harbour City, Hong Kong
2007 - “Love From Hong Kong” Tokyo’s Designer’s Week / on behalf of HK Trade Development Council (TDC) / Japan
2007 - “Remembering Hong Kong x Local Creative Forces” / Hong Kong Times Square, Hong Kong
2005 - “The Last Radiance of Life” / Visual Space on Shanghai Street / Yau Mei Tei, Hong Kong
Awards
2013 - New Photography Artist of the year, the 9thLIANZHOU FOTO / China
