Born in the City of Hong Kong in 1991, Jess Ching-Wa Lau gained her BA (Honours) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Jess’ work applies themes such as ‘Exploring memory of the body and the city’ and focusses on iterative manual processes and the aggregation of time. Being raised in a highly dense city, she explores the relationship and the distance between people and the city, incorporates trails of everyday life such as human voices and handwriting in her media work, attempts to compose poems with ‘moving images’. Jess’ work involves a wide range of media - videos, animation, installation - it explores the uniqueness and the malleability of each different medium, for example, outlining the fiction and reality with stop-motion animation.
She is a member of the ‘Collective of Floating Projects’, an experimental artist-run space in Hong Kong. She lives and works in Hong Kong and her works are currently featured in the local periodical Mingpao Weekly.
Education
2014 Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2008 Ist. Mag. Francesco De Sarlo, Lagonegro (Pz) , Italy
Award
2019 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards
2017 Finalist, Media Art Category, The 22th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong
2016 Frist Prize, Children Picture category, Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016, Hong Kong
2015 The Best Local Work, Media Art Category, The 20th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong Silver Award, Media Art Category, The 20th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), Hong Kong
2014 Best of the Show, School of Creative Media Annual Show 2014, Hong Kong
HKSAR The Reaching Out Award, Hong Kong
Residency and exchange program
2017 Arteles Residency Program, Haukijarvi, Finland
Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival, Nagano, Japan
The Key Vision of 2017 PicBookCamp, Yilean, Taiwan
2016 BiG-I Art Camp, International Communication Center for Persons with Disabilities, Osaka, Japan
2014 City University of Hong Kong's Extreme Environments program: Antarctica expedition
Selected exhibition
2020 The Translucent White - double solo exhibition with DOKI MIZUHO, Art spot korin, Kyoto, Japan
2019 Return Flight, Floating projects,Hong Kong & Blender Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Nevertheless, History Continues, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong
#REMBRANDT, PMQ, Hong Kong Chasing The Citys' Frames Back to HK Stop Motion Animation Exhibition, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong
Nothing Can Come Closer, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston, Rice University, Houston, USA
2018 ALGORITHMIC ART: SHUFFLING SPACE AND TIME, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
ifva Carnival – The City is the Cinema, Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong 虛異, Yan-huang Art Museum, Beijing, China 《玩．想》Form Society, Hong Kong Sailing, RED CUBES in Longgang, Shenzhen, China
Passengers' Anecdotes, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2017 Leap Second Festival selection,The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale, The Research Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Next+, PMQ, Hong Kong Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2017, Nagano, Japan Contemporary Neoclassic – Hong Kong Ink Art, DaGuan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
HAS-BEEN-THERE, Hong Kong SOHO Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
Simulacrum Living: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, China
Young Talent, Affordable Art fair 2017, Hong Kong Expænsive Cinema: An FPC Production, Floating Projects, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong The 22th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva) finalist exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2016 Ink+, Ink Asia 2016, HKCEC, Hong Kong The Age of Experience, Vienna, Austria Exhibition on the Winning Entries of the Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016, Hong Kong TOY as medium－Floating Projects Assemblage session, Hong Kong Recurrence, Floating Projects, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong (with kinchoi lam) HQ Public Art Project, 80 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong Cinema Island, K11 Art Space, Hong Kong
2015 Hong Kong Creative Force, Inno Design Tech Expo, HKCEC, Hong Kong 7-ELEVEN X HKBU KAITAK Art Convenience Store, Hong Kong POST CITY – Habitats for the 21st Century, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Young Talent, Affordable Art fair 2015, Hong Kong Art Centre, Art Basel 2015, HKCEC, Hong Kong Pure Art Foundation annual show, Chai Wan Mei, Hong Kong The 20th Incubator for Film & Visual Media in Asia (ifva) finalist exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2014 The Writing Machine Collective, 5th edition, TRACING DATA: What you Read is Not What we Write, Hong Kong and Zurich Extreme Environment: Antarctica Expedition and exhibition 2013-2014, Hong Kong The SCM annual 2014 Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong