Leung Mee Ping

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 practice 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]

Leung Mee Ping
Born1961 (age 58–59)
Alma materÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
OccupationArtist
Chinese name
Chinese梁美萍
Hanyu PinyinLiáng Měipíng
Yale RomanizationLèuhng Méihpìhng
JyutpingLoeng4 Mei5-ping4

Education and career

Leung received her BFA from L’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, 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[6] 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][7] 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 All are Guests - Liverpool Biennial LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool, England[8]
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
2010 Arrivals and Departures Urbis, Manchester, UK[9]

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. 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12] She won Premier prix Rocheron Award for this work in 1991.[13] 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.[14]

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.[15] Besides, she worked as an art editor of the Hong Kong Economic Times (hket, a financial daily in Hong Kong).[13] She was also one of the founding members of Para Site which were founded in early 1996 as an artist-run space.[16] In 1998, she emigrated to USA and obtained her MFA from California Institute of Arts in 2000.

Critics

"Memorise the Future (1998-2006)"

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.[17] "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.[17][18]

"Out of place (2005-2011)"

"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.[19]

"I Miss Fanta"

"I Miss Fanta"[20] 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 Sprite 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.[21] That is why many of the Hong Kong people were attracted to this artwork.

"Star Pupas"

Star Pupas[22] 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 14 September to 28 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 obsessed with their smart phones. 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.[23]

This activity was just like collecting starlight which we rarely see nowadays 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.[24]

"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 from 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.’’[25] 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.

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