Elva Lai is a fine art artist. Her work examines the possibilities and searches for sensitivities inherent in the modality of photographic images. The actual artwork ranges from drawing, installation, artist book, poster to flyers.
Elva received her education internationally. She studied in Germany, the USA and Hong Kong and Singapore respectively. She participated in art festivals and received awards for her art projects. She is the winner of The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency and had her solo show in the Landskrona Foto Festival in Sweden. She was also awarded the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize and Freeman Creative Prize. Elva lives and works in Hong Kong. CONTACT:
☞゚hereiselva@gmail.com Solo ExhibitionEMOTION DICTIONARY, JCCAC, Hong Kong
FREEDOM SWIMMERS Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium FREEDOM SWIMMERS MZIN, Leipzig, Germany FREEDOM SWIMMERS Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden “How about the other 80% you forgot?” Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong “Sorry, it’s fragile” Artify Gallery, Hong Kong Selected group Exhibition
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EducationThe Advanced Certificate of Theology, City Harvest School of Theology, Singapore
Meisterschülerin, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Germany Klasse für Installation und Raum bei Prof. Joachim Blank, Class of Installation and Space Master of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Exchange programme, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Bachelor of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Artist-in-Residency Stay
Conference programmeSeminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS
Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century by the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Institute of Creative Industries Design at National Cheng Kung University AwardsThe Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency
Freeman Creative Prize Talent Development Scholarship 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund Reaching Out Award 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund Friends of the Arts of Museum Research Grant Hong Kong Human Right Art Prize (Justice Center Hong Kong) Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award Cheung’s Fine Arts Award Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Award Grotto Fine Art Award Gaylord Chan Painting Award |