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Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) is a London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.
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Gayle Chong Kwan | |
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 Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013 | |
| Born | 1973 (age 48–49) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Known for | Photography, visual arts |
She is known for her large-scale mise-en-scene environments and photographs, created out of waste products, found materials and documentary sources, and which are often sited in the public realm.[1]
Education
Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art,[2] London, (2012-). She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester (1994), where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling (1995); and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000).
Awards
- Arts Council England International Fellow (2005)
- Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Award (2005)
- Vauxhall Collective Photography Award (2008)
- Royal Scottish Academy Award (2013)
- Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (2013). A commission to produce ""Arripare"[3][4]
- 'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award (2014)
- FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London (2014)[5]
- British Council/Arts Council England International Artist Award - 'Photography in the Public Realm New York' (2015)
Personal life
Chong Kwan was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Chinese-Mauritian father. She lives with her two sons (born in 2009 and 2015), in Leytonstone, London.[6]
References
- "Gayle Chong Kwan". Contemporary Art Society. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- "Gayle Chong Kwan". Royal College of Art. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- "Match, 2015". Refocus. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- "Arripare, 2013". Refocus. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- "four corners film". www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- Zuccotti, Paula. "Gayle Chong Kwan". Freunde von Freunden. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
External links
| Authority control: Art research institutes |
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