Mak Ying Tung 2
In this Chinese name, Mak is the family name.
Mak Ying Tung 2 (Chinese: 麥影彤二) (b. 1989 (age 34–35)) is a Hong Kong-based conceptual artist. She works in various media, including painting, installation, and photography, to explore technology, consumerism, and labor.[1][2] Her works have been exhibited at many arts organizations, including Oi!, Hong Kong; Hoca Foundation, Hong Kong; X Museum, Beijing; Goethe-Institut China, Beijing; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and CAFA Art Museum, Beijing. In 2013, Mak 2 received the Creative Media Award from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. In 2013, she was part of "The Diamond Generation" at Art Basel in Hong Kong, organized with 89plus, a research project co-founded by curators Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist.[3] Her work is part of several collections, including Daisuke Miyatsu Collection in Japan, Divide by Zero Art Collection in Hong Kong, X Museum in Beijing, China, and JPMorgan Chase Collection in the US.
Education[edit]
Mak 2 studied Critical Intermedia Art and graduated in 2013 from BA Creative Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She participated in the following artist residencies: Bori Bunder @ [En]counters 2016 - Hong Kong X Mumbai Art Exchange Project, Mumbai (2016) and Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (2014).
Art works[edit]
For the Home Sweet Home series (2020), Mak 2 commissions different painters on Chinese shopping platform Taobao to paint different parts of Mak 2's dream home settings, which she builds in life simulation game The Sims 4.[4] The resulting canvases depict luxury high-rise apartments with rooms full of CCTV cameras pointed at cribs; a circle of computer monitors facing a bathtub; and vases of sunflowers sitting in the middle of a swimming pool.
Mak 2 communicates her artistic ideas through a sense of humor and playfulness. In You Better Way Watch Out (2017), she creates a playground-like setting with colorful sponge balls and an inflatable snow globe, while incorporating QR codes and a CCTV to allow the audience to watching themselves being spied on.[5] The work speaks to the extensive surveillance allusions of social media and an open internet.
Mak 2 works with daily-life objects, trying to take them away from their usual context. In A Stubborn Clip from the Funny Stationary series (2014), a clip resists to be attracted by a magnet, which symbolizes Mak 2's resistance against routine ways of being.[6]
For Sterilization (2013), she removes all seeds one by one from a strawberry with a toothpick to imply the act of slowly depriving one’s fertility.[2]
Personal life[edit]
Name story
Originally named Mak Ying Tung, she changed her name to Mak Ying Tung 2 as her artist name in 2018 after visiting a Fengshui master. Adding up two extra Chinese character strokes in the hopes of gaining fame and fortune in her Chinese name, "麥影彤二".
Mak 2 also considers herself as a stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and also the owner of an online shop "Bubblegum Disco". She once gave an open mic stand-up comedy in Lai Kwai Fong, Hong Kong with the name ‘’Mak Mak’’ in 2020.[7]
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Home Sweet Home, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong[8]
2018 The Anything Machine, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing[9]
2017 COMEINSIDE: EAT ME, PingPong 129, Hong Kong / COMEINSIDE: BABY SHOWER, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong[10]
2016 Hoca Foundation: Art-it, Mak Ying Tung, Bibo, Hong Kong
2014 Almost Empty, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong[11]/ Fotanian Open Studios 2014, Hong Kong
2012 Funny Stationery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
2020 How Do We Begin?, X Museum Triennial 1st Edition, X Museum, Beijing[12]
2019 We Didn't Mean To Break It (But It's Ok, We Can Fix It), Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal[13] / “Whatever Works, Whatever It Takes”, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing[14] / Hot Flows, Ox Warehouse, Macau
2018 Art Basel Hong Kong, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong[15]
2017 Invisible Cities,Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, USA[16] / .com/.cn co-curated by KAF and MOMAPS1, Shanghai / Marching in Circles, Long March, Beijing [17]/ Reversal Ritual, De Sarthe gallery, Hong Kong[18]
2016 Fashion ID, K11, Hong Kong / Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London[19] / Bori Bunder, VT Station Platform 8, Mumbai[20]
2015 The 2nd "CAFAM-Future" Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing / Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life's Way, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong[21] / Under The Influence, Floor 5 1/2, Hong Kong / After/Image, Studio 52, Hong Kong / The 2nd "CAFAM‧Future" Exhibition: OBSERVER – CREATOR, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong / Affordable Art Basel Exhibition, L0 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong[22] / Glossy! Shiny! Fertility!, StarProjects, Hong Kong[23] / LEAP Pavilion "Coming Image", Photo Shanghai, Shanghai[24] / LEAP Pavilion "I’ll Be Your Wallpaper", Asia Now Paris, Paris
2014 Artistic or Autistic --The Seventh Annual Exhibition, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing / Shampoo Whatever #1, The A-lift Gallery, Hong Kong[25]
2013 Regarding Lightness- The Weight of Lightness: Bio-gravity, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong / BOING! Osage Gallery, Hong Kong[26] / SOFT OFF (but I love it when your mouth is a little shut), ltd los angeles, Los Angeles[27] / The SCM annual 2013, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong[28]
2012 Cool kids, Lane Crawford, Hong Kong / Media Art & The Environment : The Desert Metropolis, School of Creative Media, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong[29]
2011 House of Sound, School of Creative Media, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong / CIL Bulletin, Best Before, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
2010 Micro Narratives: Invented Time & Space, Blue Room, Hong Kong
Public Collections[edit]
- Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, Japan
- Divide by Zero Art Collection, Hong Kong
- X Museum, Beijing, China
- JPMorgan Chase Collection, US
References[edit]
- ↑ "China's tech boom has inspired a wave of internet-related art". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wong, Winnie. "On Smallness in Hong Kong Art - M+ Stories". stories.mplus.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ Salon | 89plus: Introducing The Diamond Generation, retrieved 2021-03-25
- ↑ "A Hong Kong Artist Commissioned Anonymous Painters to Render Her Sims Interiors on Canvas. The Results Are Unnerving". Artnet News. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ "ArtAsiaPacific: Reversal Ritual". artasiapacific.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ "Arts Preview: Mak Ying-tung uses balloons to highlight her colourful intent". South China Morning Post. 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ 情陷夜中環之港女MakMak大戰蘭桂坊🌼棟篤笑 Hong Kong Girl VS Lan Kwai Fong Standup OpenMic, retrieved 2021-09-17
- ↑ "Home Sweet Home - de Sarthe Gallery". www.desarthe.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "The Anything Machine - de Sarthe Gallery". www.desarthe.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "201703". EXIT 安全口. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "MAK Ying Tung: Almost Empty". EXIT 安全口. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ Archive, Asia Art. "X Museum Triennial 1st Edition: How Do We Begin?". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Event: We Didn't Mean To Break It (But It's Ok, We Can Fix It): Joyce Ho". TKG+. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Mak Ying Tung 2 at Goethe-Institut China - de Sarthe Gallery". www.desarthe.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Mak Ying Tung". Art Basel. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Invisible Cities Forum (2017-10-14)". crowcollection.org. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Marching in Circles – Long March Space". Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Reversal Ritual - de Sarthe Gallery". www.desarthe.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Artists Film International 2016 - Fareha Khezal & Mak Ying Tung". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "流動倉庫 @ [En]counters 2016 ─ 香港 x 孟買 藝術交流計劃". Art Together (in 中文). Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life's Way". www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Affordable Art Basel! 買不起，送給你計劃 The Affordable Art Basel! Project". PEGGY CHAN (in 中文). Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ ""Glossy! Shiny! Fertility!" Press Release (Starprojects) | PDF". Scribd. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "展讯：【LEAP Pavilion】 图像新潮 | The Coming Image_独家_资讯_凤凰艺术". art.ifeng.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "undefined". www.k11artfoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "Osage Gallery". www.osagegallery.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ Magazine, The Untitled. "Mak Ying Tung | THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE". Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "The SCM Annual Show 2013 創意媒體學院年度展2013". www.scmannual.com. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ Archive, Asia Art. "Media Art & The Environment: The Desert Metropolis". aaa.org.hk (in 中文). Retrieved 2021-09-16.
External links[edit]
- Mak Ying Tung 2's personal website
- Mak Ying Tung 2's Instagram
- Mak Ying Tung 2's YouTube Channel
- Mak Ying Tung2 麥影彤二 - Artsy
- Mak Ying Tung 2 - Ocula
- MAK2 AKA MAK YING TUNG 2 - De Sarthe
- MAK Ying Tung 麥影彤 - EXIT 安全口
- Mak Ying Tung 2 - Artland
- Mak Ying Tung 2 - Artnet
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