The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (ADC) and M+ (Hong Kong’s up-and-coming museum for visual culture and contemporary art in the West Kowloon Cultural District) announced today that Tsang Kin-Wah has been chosen to represent Hong Kong at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 (due to take place on May 9–November 22, 2015).

Commenting on the selection, Dr Lars Nittve, M+ Executive Director, said, “We are thrilled to work with Tsang Kin-Wah, a Hong Kong artist who has developed a mature artistic language that at once is deeply personal and has the capacity to communicate universally. His work wonderfully represents the quickly maturing contemporary art scene of Hong Kong.”

Born in 1976, Guangdong Province, Tsang Kin-Wah lives and works in Hong Kong. He studied fine art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and studied Book Arts at the Camberwell College of Arts in London. His work is critically acclaimed for its innovative use of text and language, which are manipulated using computer technology to create immersive artworks. The artist has exhibited globally with solo shows at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2011), Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom (2008), and group exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (2011), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2008) and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (2008), among others. His work was also showcased in M+’s second public exhibition of Hong Kong artists Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei, in 2012. He is currently exhibiting, Landscape: The Virtual, The Actual, The Possible at the Guangdong Times Museum. His work is held in several important private and public collections including the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.