Leung Mee Ping
| Leung Mee Ping | |
|---|---|
 Leung Mee Ping in 2007 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 54–55) |
| Alma mater | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Chinese name | |
| Chinese | 梁美萍 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liáng Měipíng |
| Yale Romanization | Lèuhng Méihpìhng |
| Jyutping | Loeng4 Mei5-ping4 |
Leung Mee Ping (梁美萍; born 1961) is a Hong Kong artist.[1] Her works integrate elements and platforms of theatre, design, commercial space and social space, so as to extend performance or action through a research-based practive progressing to experimental interaction and integration.[2] Those works can be defined as issue-based creativity. Leung is interested in researching for visual culture, space saving creativity, traditional handicraft, installation, public art and community art.[3]
Education and career
Leung received her BFA from L’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, LA, U.S.A. and Ph.D at Chinese University of Hong Kong (Religious & Cultural Studies Department).[3] She is an Associate Professor of Visual Culture, Space Saving Creativity, Traditional Handicraft, Installation, Public art and Community Art, at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Works
Her works mainly focuses on and concern for the ethic, community and memories of the human living situation,[3] and also examine daily life through perception of daily life itself.[4] Art genres include mixed-media, video, multi-media installation and site-specific event-based project.
Solo exhibitions
| Year | Title[5] | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Display Distribute: Made in Shenzhen | Street-Booth Display Distribute, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Star Pupas | FLEETING LIGHTS Project, Lower Piazza, Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Made in Hong Kong | Osage Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2013 | Don’t Blame the Moon | Singapore Art Fair, Hong Kong AP Contemporary, Singapore |
| 2012 | Reality—Leung Mee-ping Installation Art Exhibition | OX Warehouse, Macau |
| 2011 | Made in Hong Kong | Pemalamo Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2010 | Miniature Flat G, No 7 | Giormani Home Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2006 | Room with View | Centre de Reflexion sur I’image et Ses Contexts, Sierre, Switzerland |
| 2004 | In Search of Insomnious Sheep | Tai Mei Tuk Sea Activity Centre, 1a Space, Hong Kong |
| 2004 | Memorize the Future II | Exhibition Hall, Tsuen Wan City Hall, Hong Kong / Western Market, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong |
| 2003 | Hong Kong Contemporary—Water Tone: Leung Mee Ping 1992-2003 | Kaoshsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaoshsiung, Taiwan |
| 2002 | Memorize the Future | Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong |
Group exhibitions
| Year | Title[5][6] | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Shanghai Urban Space Art 2015 Season | West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai, China |
| 2015 | “ArtBat” Public Art Festival | Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2015 | Walking in the Dreams | Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong |
| 2015 | Urban Exotic Dilemma | Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2015 | Artspiration: About Light | Oil Street Art Space / HKICC, Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong |
| 2015 | Art Basel － Hong Kong Osage Gallery | Hong Kong Conventional Center, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Star Pupas | Lower Piazza, Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Delivering Poem | Chifra Art Park, Shuntak, East Coast, Guangdong, China |
| 2014 | Tighttrope Walking Fish | Shenzhen Public Sculpture Exhibition 2014, Shenzhen, China |
| 2014 | All are Guest — Home Coming | Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | FLEX IT! My Body My Temple Project | The Parthenon Museum, USA |
| 2014 | Unseen Presence | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland |
| 2014 | Home | Fangsou Commune, Guangzhou, China |
| 2014 | Art Basel- Hong Kong Osage Gallery | Hong Kong Conventional Center, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Elsewhere- Hong Kong Osage Gallery | Art Cologne, Germany |
| 2014 | Kanhaiya & Kumari---[en]counters 2014: Is There Love in The Air | Judith Beach, Mumbai, India |
| 2014 | One for One—The Free Marketeers | Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Journeys of Leung Ping-kwan' Exhibition (1949–2013) | Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong / Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taiwan |
| 2013 | 10th Busan International Video Art Festival | Openspace Bae, Busan, Korea |
| 2013 | Lost & Found | Z Space, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 2013 | All Are Guests—Hong Kong Week Exhibition | Husashan 1914 Creative Park, Taiwan |
| 2013 | Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition | Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong |
| 2013 | Haein Art Project—International Exhibition of Contemporary Art | Sungbo Museum, Haeinsa Temple, South Korea |
| 2013 | Made in India ---[en]counters 2013: powerPLAY | Studio X, Mumbai, India |
| 2012 | Coin Making—Workshop | Free Space Fest, West Kowloon Culture District, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | Of Human Scale: Art and Environment | The Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | Philosopher's (knock-off) Stone: Turning Gold into Plastic | Osage Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | Liverpool Biennial | LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool, England |
| 2012 | Inwards Gazes—Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art | Museu de Arts de Macau, Macau |
| 2012 | LOUD: Mapping the Aesthetics of Visual Silence | The Visual Festival Fringe, Kassel, Germany |
| 2012 | Market Force | Osage Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | Mobile M+ YAU MA TEL | M+ (Museum of Visual Culture, WKCD) Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Each Other | Pemalamo Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2010 | Videoholica -International Video Art Festival | Varna, Bulgaria |
| 2010 | Prelude | CVA Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Convection | Dafen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China |
| 2010 | Home Stay | Osage Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2010 | Art of the World Exposition: The City of Forking Paths | Shanghai Art Expo Main Path, Shanghai, China |
| 2010 | Lending Art Work Project | Shanghai Street Art Space, Hong Kong |
Awards
| Year | Awards |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Hong Kong Best Annual Artist Award Hong Kong art Development Council |
| 2014 | IMMA Fellowship Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland |
| 2013 | President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work (Service). HKBU |
| 2012 | Artist Residency Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Britain |
| 2011 | President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work (Creative / Professional Work) HKBU. |
| 2010 | Outstanding Artists of 2010: Martell –NDmedia Art Salon. Martell Art Foundation in China |
| 2009 | Daily Permanent Public Sculpture, National Museum Southern Branch, Chiayi Prince Boulevard, Taiwan |
| 2008 | Civitella Ranieri Fellowship Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy |
| 2007 | Two Sites Permanent Art in Public, Zhang Jiang High Technology Park, Shanghai, China |
| 2004 | Freeman Foundation Fellowship Freeman Foundation, USA |
| 2003 | Starr Foundation Fellowship offered by Asian Cultural Council, USA |
| 2002 | Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award |
Personal
Leung Mee Ping grew up in a broken family, she won a drawing competition when she was studying at primary school. Since that time, she started to fall into drawing and calligraphy.
Leung moved out when she was very young after her parents separated. Despite this, she has always been close to her mother and sisters, whom support her and are the main theme of Leung’s artworks. After working in a book store for two years, Leung saved up and got into École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
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In 1983, Leung Mee Ping left Hong Kong and began her art study in Paris. She had learnt to paint in abstract and expressionist styles.[7] Before she graduated from L’ École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris in 1991, she started exploring different materials to create art works. Because of her friends’ death, “Elsewhere (1991-2014)” was initiated at that time.[8] It is a mixed media installation consisting of thousands of tea bags sewn together. The repetitive action of sewing teabags symbolize the artist’s means of meditative contemplation on being and death.[9] She won Premier prix Rocheron Award for this work in 1991.[10] A part from tea bags, various objects such as quail eggs, photos, tiles etc. were used in Leung’s mixed media art and installation works.[11]
After she came back in Hong Kong in 1994, she held her first solo exhibition “Mixed-Media Work by LEUNG MEE PING” in Fringe Club.[12] Besides, she worked as an art editor of the Hong Kong Economic Times (hket, a financial daily in Hong Kong).[10] She was also one of the founding members of Para Site which were founded in early 1996 as an artist-run space.[13] In 1998, she emigrated to USA and obtained her MFA from California Institute of Arts in 2000.
Critics
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"Memorise the Future (1998-2002)"
Leung has long been renowned in creating works which raise people’s concern over social environment. She used human hair as corporeal material in art.[14] “Memorise the Future (1998-2002)” is an installation composed of over 10 thousand children shoes made of human hair (4 to 5 inches for each). Being collected from over one hundred nations, the mixed and undistinguished human hair symbolize transcended regional boundaries and the blur of individuality.[14][15]
“Out of place (2005-2011)”
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“Out of place (2005-2011)” is a series of video installation which feature different places (including Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghi, Ski Lanka and Macau). Leung followed a number of individuals wondering aimlessly through the streets of varying locales, attempting to discover new psychgeographical routes through the mapping of purposeless.[16]
“I Miss Fanta”
“I Miss Fanta”[17] is one of the most famous and well-known artworks in Hong Kong. It was a piece of artwork presented by Leung Mee Ping in the contemporary art exhibition held by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. The installation located in Man Ming Lane sitting-out area in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, during 15 May – 10 June 2012.
“I Miss Fanta” was originally three iconic outdoor neon signs of Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Prite shown along Macus main shopping artery Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro and became an integral part of the urban landscape of the city for the past 50 years.
I Miss Fanta was Leung Mee Ping’s recent discovery that the two signs, Coca Cola and Sprite, were disappeared. It represented a title amplifying the sentiment expressed from the perspective of the signage about the dismantled past.
By displaying all the three neon signs on the ground of the park in Yau Ma Tei, which is similar to how they were found on the platform in the Coca Cola factory in Macau. At the same time, process of the move of the signs were shown in a nearby junk and recycling shop. Leung transforms all these visual symbols related to personal and collective memory into a sculptural installation. And bringing the tension between heritage conservation and urban gentrification to the surface as well.[18] That is why many of the Hong Kong people were attracted to this artwork.
"Star Pupas"
Star Pupas[19] was an artwork that demonstrated Leung’s care to social culture.
Leung enrolled in ‘’Fleeting Light’’, which was a large scale media arts exhibition presented by The Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The exhibition was held outside Hong Kong Science Museum during 14th September to 28th September 2014.
Leung designed a mobile app called ‘’Star Pupas’’.The reason for designing a mobile app was that Leung observed a phenomenon that people were so obessed to smart phone noadays. Scanning the image of stars from the sky, visitors can “name” the stars and leave messages to friends. The images of stars and the messages were projected on the tent. The more people will participate, the brighter the inside of the tent will be. They can even share the starlight and what they think and feel at the moment of “naming” the stars through the mobile app, to light up others’ lives with love and care.[20]
This activity was just like collecting starlight which we rarely see noadays due to light pollution.Leung tried to tell us that not only are we far away from starry nights, we,phubbers are also gradually far away from the ones we love. Leung wanted to create something to make phubbers left up their heads and care their beloved ones.
‘’ Leung is good at making creation from real life experience and inspiration.’’ Editors from Unwire.hk said so.[21]
"Pearl River Delta Series I: Made in Hong Kong"
Leung Mee Ping’s Pearl River Delta Series I: Made in Hong Kong was held at Osage gallery, during 1 March to 1 April 2014.It was mixed-media installation with performative elements.
‘’Leung Mee Ping’s artistic practice is essentially conceptual and investigative, and one of its strongest markers is her relentless and enduring curiousity [sic] . Leung’s mixed-media installation Made In Hong Kong is like a conceptual onion: peel away one layer of meaning and association only to find multiple layers underneath.’’[22] commented by Valerie C Doran, who is an independent curator, critic and translator in the field of Chinese contemporary art with a special interest in cultural cross-currents and comparative art theory.
References
- ↑ "LEUNG Mee Ping 梁美萍". Artist Pension Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ "ABOUT - 梁美萍 LEUNG Mee-ping". www.lmp.hk. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- 1 2 3 "Dr. Leung Mee Ping - Academy of Visual Arts". Academy of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
- ↑ "AP Contemporary - artwork for sale, painting, art gallery, sculpture, art consulting, venue, events, promotion". www.apcontemporary.com. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- 1 2 "Leung Mee Ping - CV - Solo Exhibitions". 梁美萍 LEUNG Mee-ping. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ↑ "Leung Mee Ping - Works". 梁美萍 LEUNG Mee-ping. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ↑ Lai, V., & Man, E. (2015). In Conversation with Hong Kong Art 1980-2014. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.).
- ↑ Man, E. (2000). The Free Tribe: 10 Women Visual Artists in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book.
- ↑ "Osage at Art Taipei 2014" (PDF). Osage Gallery: Press Release. Osage Gallery. 2014.
- 1 2 Man, E. (2000). The Free Tribe: 10 Women Visual Artists in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book.
- ↑ Lai, V., & Man, E. (2015). In Conversation with Hong Kong Art 1980-2014. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.).
- ↑ Lai, V., & Man, E. (2015). In Conversation with Hong Kong Art 1980-2014. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.).
- ↑ Leung, A. (2002). Para/Site 1996-2000. Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space.
- 1 2 Fok, S. (2013). Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China. Chicago: Intellect Books.
- ↑ "Press Release. Installation works by Gu Wenda and Leung Mee-ping at Museum of Art". 2006-07-19. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ↑ Rodriguez Fominaya, A. (2010). This is Hong Kong: 15 Video Artists. Hong Kong: Para Site Art Space.
- ↑ "Valerie C. Doran - Floating Signs And Fragile Monuments - Leung Mee-Ping's I Miss Fanta (And other Associations)" (PDF).
- ↑ "Mobile M+ -Leung Mee Ping - I Miss Fanta".
- ↑ "Hong Kong Arts Development Council". www.hkadc.org.hk. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- ↑ "Leung Mee-ping and Samson Young's Media Art Works to Tell Stories of Hong Kong and its People". Cultural Connections. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ↑ Y, About the Author; 村上春樹, Roid 「完美的文章並不存在，就像完美的絕望並不存在一樣。」 ──. "本土藝術家設計 令「低頭族」抬頭 App - UNWIRE.HK". UNWIRE.HK 流動科技生活. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- ↑ "Hong Kong art events. Leung Mee Ping at Osage gallery. Pearl River Delta Series I: Made in Hong Kong". Yareah Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-02.