MAN MEI TO
MAN MEI-TO 文美桃
Mei To Man (b.1990) is a Visual artist based in London and Hong Kong. Man obtained her MFA(Sculpture) from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2024. She received a BA(Painting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in 2017, majoring in painting.
Man is the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists' Studio Residency 2021. Man has exhibited in institutions such as Power Station of Art (Shanghai,2024), Tangent Projects (Barcelona,2024), Lewisham Arthouse (London,2024), CHAT- Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong,2022), The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition,2021 (Fukuoka, Japan), Rossi & Rossi (Hong Kong, 2020), Gallery EXIT (Hong Kong, 2020), Oil Street Art Space (Hong Kong,2019-2020) and Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (Hong Kong,2018), Hong Kong Arts Centre ( Hong Kong, 2017), among others.
Man’s artworks tell stories with materials as the point of departure, and delves into various mediums on a technical level. Through observing the intimacy of the body, she explores urban vistas, life under urbanisation, and transient things. Her works aim to raise awareness of the existence of all kinds of beings as well as the connections between their fragility and silence by objectifying, cloning, reconstructing, or quantifying elements found in everyday life.
EDUCATIONAL:
2024 Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2017 BA, Fine Arts(Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Restless Resilience, 1999 Art Space, Hong Kong
2021 Silent Whispers, Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme Open Studio, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2019 Sediment and Undercurrent, ACO Art Space, Hong Kong
2018 The Distance of Space, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
2016 Laundry Shop, A Walk with A3, Hong Kong
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:
2021 Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2020 Ho Sheung Heung, Hong Kong Farmland, Ecological Conservation of Farmland and Education Project, Hong Kong
2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s Telling Stories | The Storyteller of the Water, Nagano, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2024 Hazy Horizons, The NOHO Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2024 Residency Competition 2025, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Farringdon, London, United Kingdom
2024 Drawer inside the barlines, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2024 Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree Show 2024, London, United Kingdom
2024 The Nomenclature of Colours III, Online exhibition, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2024 JCCAC Art Basel Parallel Exhibition - A Preface to Magnificence, JCCAC L1 Gallery, Hong Kong
2024 The Dazzling Edge of Darkness: 1 Day Sculpture Park, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
2024 How to Play Hopscotch?, Koppel Collective, London, United Kingdom
2024 Bird of Shape, Tangent Projects, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Interlude, Lewisham Arthouse, London, United Kingdom
2024 Tokens of Remembrance, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2023 Slade MA/MFA Interim Showcase 2023, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2023 The Collectible Art Fair, Jockey Club Atrium & Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2023 Tiger A(r)m Strong Biennale – The Tailed Scar, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
2023 Colour/Print/Poetry, Online exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2022 Be 40 Mixed-Media Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2022 Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT( Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) by MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong
2022 Ngan4+, Hong Kong Visual Art Center, Hong Kong
2021 Gathering of Consciousness, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2021 The29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Geibun-kan,Fukuoka, Japan
2021 ngan4-Sculpture exhibition, Pat Heung Farm, Yuen Long, Hong Kong
2021 Dear Babies, House by Kubrick, Hong Kong
2021 Farmland Eco-art Exhibition, Times Square and 1a space, Hong Kong
2020 XX – An Exhibition Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
2020 Big wind blows, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2020 The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2019 In Search of Coast Line - Art parade Education Project 2018 - 2019, Art Together, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
2018 2018 Public art: Ring Ring Belt, C & G Artpartment, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul, Korea
2018 Gwangju International Art Fair 2018｜Art Together Limited, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea
2018 Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2017 Deep Silence, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2017 Ensemble, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 As the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Project, 1a space, Hong Kong
2016 Decongestion of West Kowloonization – Soil. Play, C&G Artpartment, Nullah Road, Sitting-out area, Prince Edward, Hong Kong
2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, The Land’s telling stories | The storyteller of the Water, Nagano, Japan
2016 Book Shop, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong
2015 Fine Art Asia 2015｜Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2015 Fresh Trend 2015 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Central, Hong Kong
2015 An Aeroplane community art exhibition on stories of Kowloon City, ‘’Write me a letter when you arrive...’’, Kowloon City Street, Hong Kong
2015 A/AN “ “, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2015, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2015 She has a gloomy dream / His silent disorder, Carol Lee Studio, Chai Wai Mei, Hong Kong
2014 “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show, Art Experience Foundation, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Island– Story. Life. Landscape, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
2013 BOING! - pop-up art market, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 The 15543rd same exhibition, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong
2008 Before Sleep (School photography group exhibition), Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
CURATORIAL:
2021 Make A Wish Return: Cookery and Art Practice, BLACK MOON, Hong Kong
2021 Visual Diary Archive - Images Co-create Platform, Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme, Hong Kong, Co-curator
2019 - 2020 A Page A Wish, XCHANGE: Make Good Make Over, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, Co-curator
SELECTED AWARDS:
2023 Slade Bursary Award, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2020 CMHK Professional Development Subsidy, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
2015 Mr. Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship (2014/2015)
2014 Art Experience Foundation Presents: “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show
2012 Outstanding Performance Scholarship, Self- Financing Post- Secondary Scholarship Scheme, Education Bureau HKSAR
2012 Best Artwork (PAINTING), Hong Kong Art School
2008 Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship
COLLECTIONS:
Private collections in London
Private collections in San Francisco
Private collections in Japan
Private collections in Hong Kong
Private collections in China
Collections in Soho House
Collections in Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan
PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING:
2023 第十七期「卡夫卡．審判」, 2023年夏季號, 方圓, 文學及文化專刊, 香港文學館出版
OTHER:
2023 The Bach Flower Educational Foundation, Ainsworths, London, United Kingdom
2020-2021 Homeopathic Medicine, Hong Kong Academy of Homeopathy, Hong Kong
2021 Art Specialist Advanced Course ( Sculpture ), Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong