MAN MEI TO
MAN MEI TO 文美桃
Mei To Man (b.1990) is a Visual artist. 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.
Man has been exhibited in international institutions such as Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Tangent Projects (Barcelona), Lewisham Arthouse (London), CHAT- Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (Hong Kong), Mangrove Gallery (Shenzhen), Rossi & Rossi (Hong Kong) and Gallery EXIT (Hong Kong). Man is the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists' Studio Residency in 2021.
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:
2025 Leaking Frontier, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
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
DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Footnotes to Lingering, POINTSMAN, 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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Collect Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
2025 The Muse Residency Winter Group Show, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2024 Hazy Horizons, The NOHO Galleries, 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 JCCAC Art Basel Parallel Exhibition - A Preface to Magnificence, JCCAC L1 Gallery, Hong Kong
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 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
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 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
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 A/AN “ “, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2015, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2014 “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show, Art Experience Foundation, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 BOING! - pop-up art market, Osage Gallery, 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