27—28 April

Shuk Pui Bobby Yu

(She/her)
The address to Shuk Pui Bobby's studio is Myntgata 2, Myntgata 2, 0151 Oslo
The studio is open Sunday April 23rd

Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist who now based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Bobby’s practice is focused on building intimate relationships and collaborations, where physical, tangible and affective phenomena associated with biotechnology and the future are created by the media of video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance. In recent years, Bobby has started to work on video making with different communities as a means of exploring identity construction in various cultural contexts and collective aspects.

artistic research, conceptual art, filmmaking, video installation, collaboration

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Genetic Salon - The Remains of Genetic Salon, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Multi-channel video Installation, Dimensions Variable, Projector, LCD Screens, Sand, Digital printed on paper, 1945s Afterposten newspapers, a Barber Chair and a Costume that have used for the film shoot, 2022. Photo taken by Øystein Thorvaldsen.
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In Search of Receptionists of the Genetic Salon. Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Film, 4K, HD, colour, sound 5.1, 16:9, 12 min. 24 sec. 2022. Video Still. Producer, Director and Writer: Bobby Shuk Pui Yu First Assistant of Director: Ka Ki Wong Director of photography: Rickard Aall Camera Assistant: Johanna Nystöm Gaffer: Adrian Maurud Sounds Recordist: Liew Ceng Teng Art production: Reem Hassan, Chris Lee, Marion Fransrud Wardrobe: Avenue, Chris Lee Stylists: Jenni Friis Bjørgli, Chris Lee Make-up artist: Gloop/ Elise Ommundsen Granli, Matilde Midttveit Hair Stylist: Katarina Ljosdal
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Genetic Salon - The Remains of Genetic Salon, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Multi-channel video Installation, Dimensions Variable, Projector, LCD Screens, Sand, Digital printed on paper, 1945s Afterposten newspapers, a Barber Chair and a Costume that have used for the film shoot, 2022. Photo taken by Tor Simen Ulstein.
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Genetic Salon - Red Room, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Video and Text Installation, A spotlight, Projector, Sound Speaker, 8 pieces of flashlights, Labels, Hand Sculpture made with Resin, Wigs, Badge of Genetic Salon, Soils, 2021. Photo taken by KUNSTDOK Tor Simen Ulstein.

Planned projects and exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 The Remains of Genetic Salon / Kongsberg Kunstforening

GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Daddy’s Dinner / Tenthaus

FILM
2023 Lykke Til / Hong Kong Freshwave Film Competition & Festival

CV

STUDIES
2019-2021 Oslo National Academy of the Arts / MFA Fine Arts
2015-2018 Hong Kong Baptist University / BA Visual Arts
2012-2015 Hong Kong Design Institute / HD Visual Art and Culture

PRIZES AND GRANTS
2022 Visual Arts’ Remuneration Fund(BKV) – Project Support / Norway
Scholarship of Snorre Andersen, Maleren Ambrosius Egedius og Hustrus Legat (SAMAEHL) – Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Norway
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV) – One-year Artist Working Grant / Norway
Office for Contemporary Art Norway – International Support
Hong Kong Art Development Council – Cultural Exchange Fund
2021 Oslo Municipality (Oslo Kommune) – Establishment Stipend / Norway
Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet) – Project support for artists in the establishment phase / Norway
Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet) – Sound and Vision Fund – Project support / Norway
Visual Arts’ Remuneration Fund(BKV) – Project Support / Norway
Kunstnernes Hus, Fondet for Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) – Studio Grant / Norway
Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet) – Diverse Stipend for newly graduated artists / Norway
2020 Viken Filmsenter – Ung-filmstipend / Oslo
King’s College London – Longlist of the Ivan Juritz Prize
2018 Hong Kong Art Development Council – Cultural Exchange Fund
2017 AVA HKBU and The Art of CUHK – Honourable Mention of Vitamin D Award / Hong Kong
2016 Hong Kong Art Development Council – Cultural Exchange Fund
2014 Golden Sugarcane Film Festival – Best Actress / Taiwan
2013 Art Experience Gallery – 1st First Smash Art Project / Hong Kong

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Isotop Felle Atelier / Bergen Norway
Podium – The Remains of Genetic Salon / Oslo
2021 K4 Gallery – Genetic Salon Red Room / Oslo
Post-Human Narratives c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam – Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video interaction) /Online
Skylight KHiO – Genetic Salon PART I (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2019 Skylight KHiO – Genetic Salon Skylight 2019 (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2015 Art Fix Gallery – CV by Vagina / London

SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2019 Hong Kong Community Radio HKCR – A series of Genetic Salon DJ Conferences (multimedia performance) / Hong Kong
2016 Mjólkurbúðin – Marriage-Seeking 2016 (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan – Examination (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan – POWER DUMPLINGS (performane) / Akureyri
2014 100ft. Gallery – The Woman (performance) / Hong Kong

SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Loftet@Kunstnernes Hus (w/ Ole Petter Ribe )- FKDs Artists Duo Show / Oslo
2019 Akademironmmet (w/ Montserrat Llampallas) c: Jasper Siverts & Emilia Sølvsten – Unstable Monuments (installation) / Oslo
2017 100ft. Gallery (w/ Hui Serene Sze Lok)- Dimension Convertor – Artifical Waterfall (installation) / Hong Kong
2015 EC Gallery (w/ Sunday Lai) c: Jeff Leung – Half Day with Cloud (video installation)/ Hong Kong

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences- Post Human Narratives – In the name of scientific witchery (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) – Genetic Salon (video) / Hong Kong
2021
Karen Leung Foundation – The Extra Odinary Exhibition 2.0 – You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Cattle Depot Artist Village – Post Human Narratives – Common Ground (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) – Genetic Salon (installation) / Hong Kong
BOA – Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus – Struktura Time (c: Lesia Vasylchenko) – Genetic Salon (installation) / Oslo
SVETOVA 1 – Universal Wilderness (c: Zai Xu) – Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video) / Prague
Kunstnernus Hus – The Great Indoors (c: Pedro Gómez-Egaña) / Oslo

2020
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – SOLASTALGIC / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – Work the Muscle / Oslo
IESA Gallery – Willful Blindness (c: Yannie Hung & Anna Lataillade) – Wilfully Blindness (video) / Paris
Akademirommet – Hinne – Vase Piece (video) / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – Wilfully Blindness Painting Exhibition / Oslo

2019
Liu Art Museum – Strangers (c: Weitzu) / Taichung Taiwan
Kulturmejeriet – Fragile: the 2nd Röbäck Biennale (c: Audrius Pocius) / Umeå
Tomorrow Maybe Gallery – Yummy Gummy (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
Form Society & Hong Kong Artist Union – Drum & Voice Out! (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong

2018
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU – Bad Grade Exhibition / Hong Kong

2017 Power Station of Art & Swatch Art Peach Hotel – LIGHT UP Therapy Resort (c: Tiffany Fung & Lu Siqiao) / Shanghai
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU – Plane Stories / Hong Kong
1a Space – Plentiful Pluralities / Hong Kong
Para-site – In Search of Miss Ruthless (c: Hera Chan & David Xu Borgonjon) – / Hong Kong
Kai Tak Campus HKBUAVA BA Graduation Exhibition / Hong Kong

2016
Listhús Gallery – Group Exhibition / Ólafsfjördur Iceland
A Place Gallery & Studio – AGENCIES: embodiment / Florida
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Art Gallery – Dada Lives! / Ohio
Youkobo Art Space Gallery – Feminist Fan in Japan and Friends / Tokyo

2015
starproject – Perpetual Production & Consumption (c: Cecilia Lee) – You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Book in Times: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong

2014
Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity – Macy is Homed (c: Ho Yuen) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Outside Reading: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
Hong Kong Design Institute – New Voices Talent Show / Hong Kong

2013
Art Experience Gallery – 1st First Smash (c: Aries Chan) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Eggwich / Hong Kong

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2021 ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL / Norway

SELECTED FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS 2021
Vigeland Musuem – Perfection/Speculation (c: PRAKSIS & Karmaklubb) / Norway

2019
ROM for Art and Architecture – Performance Art Oslo Festival / Hong Kong

2017
Connecting Space – Accidental Tourist Guide – Officealley (installation) / Hong Kong

2016
Hong Kong Art Gallery Association – The Gallery Walk – The Stretcher (performance) / Hong Kong
Listasumar – A! Performance Art Festival / Akureyri
RóT Project / Akureyri
Listasumar – Summer Art Festival / Akureyri

2015
Chorm Art – Tribe 15 Art Festival (c: Bea Kozlowska & Kris Cieslak) / London
7th Passion of Freedom / London

2012
7th YMCArts Wonder Land Festival / Hong Kong

SELECTED ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2021 PRAKSIS – Perfection/Speculation / Oslo
USF Bergen Artist in Residence / Bergen
2019 Lakkos Artists Residency / Crete
Athena Standards Residency / Athens
2016 Listhús Space / Ólafsfjördur
3331 Art Chiyoda / Tokyo
2014 435 Art Studio / Taipei

SPEECHES & ARTIST TALKS
2022 Para-Site – P.S. Studio Visit (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) /Online
2021 Radio Tenthaus (w/ Wei Ting Zeng and Jinbin Chen) / Oslo
Asian Art Museum – After Hope Symposium / San Francisco
Post-Human Narratives – Artist Talk ft. ‘The Birth of Vtuber Riffisa’ / Online
PRAKSIS – Perfection/Speculation Panel Discussion: Discussing genes, memes and the modifiable body / Oslo
Royal College of Art – Fashion+Solstice 21 / London
2018 The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong

PUBLICATIONS
2013 DOING – Independent Publishing / Hong Kong
2012 YOUTH – YMCAarts / Hong Kong