Biography
Hong is a Chinese video artist and filmmaker based in London. Having worked with the conventional formats in film and TV for years, she finds herself attracted to alternative ways of screen-based storytelling. She creates socially concerned video art from a cross-cultural perspective drawing from her own experience living and working in China and the UK. For instance, her video installation Seating Code transforms a gallery into a film set, and uses humour to examine a superstitious rule imposed on female workers in the Chinese film industry.
Selected Exhibitions
• 2017 Unframed Festival, Berlin, Germany
• 2017 APO, Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Greece
• 2017 MR MOV Video Art Festival, Italy
• 2017 Antennae, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes, London, UK
• 2017 Kuuki, Roper Gallery, Bath Artist Studios, UK
• 2013 hetero q.b. International Video Programme, Museu do Chiado/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2013 All My Independent Women Video Lounge, Brotherton Library, Leeds University, UK
• 2012 London Feminist Film Festival, London, UK
• 2010 Corto Helvetico al Femminile, Switzerland
• 2010 In Her Shoes, The Women’s Art Library, London, UK
Awards
• 2017 Winner of the UNCG Green Fund Prize, Weatherspoon Art Museum, USA
• 2005 Winner of the Cross-cultural Documentary Prize, Beijing College Student Film Festival, China
