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Jess Lau Ching-wa (b.1991, Hong Kong) is a moving image artist working in video, animation, and installation. Her practice centres on narrative fragmentation, embodied memory, and the durational nature of artistic labour, exploring the porous boundary between fiction and reality through layered manual processes that accumulate traces of the body and emotion.
Time operates as both theme and method in Lau's work—images are built, dismantled, and rebuilt through repetitive gestures that insist on media art's warmth and materiality rather than digital detachment. Her works evoke an intimate temporality where memory unfolds slowly in fragments, and where the labour of image-making becomes visible, connecting personal experience with collective urban memory.
Lau's work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica (Austria), Taipei Fine Art Museum (Taiwan), Two Temple Place (London), Image Forum Festival (Japan), Animatou International Animation Festival (Switzerland), Tai Kwun Contemporary and West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), Ben Brown Gallery (Hong Kong), and IFVA Festival. She was awarded the Nanying Prize for Video Art in Taiwan (2022) and selected for Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists' Studio Residency (2020).
She currently lives and works between Hong Kong and Taipei.
劉清華（1991年生於香港）是一位影像藝術家，主要從事錄像、動畫與裝置創作。其作品聚焦於敘事碎片、身體記憶與時間的遞進，透過層層疊構的手工操作過程，探索虛構與現實之間的界限，積累身體與情感的痕跡。
時間在她的創作中既是主題，也是方法——圖像經過反覆的拆解與重組，強調媒體藝術的溫度與物質性，而非數位的疏離感。她的作品營造出一種親密的時間感，讓記憶在碎片中緩慢展開，使影像生成的勞動過程變得可見，連結個人經驗與集體的城市記憶。
作品曾於多個國際展覽中展出，包括奧地利林茲電子藝術節、臺北市立美術館、倫敦Two Temple Place、日本Image Forum Festival、瑞士Animatou國際動畫節、香港大館當代藝術館、西九文化區、香港Ben Brown Gallery，以及IFVA媒體藝術節等。她於2022年榮獲台灣南瀛獎，並於2020年獲選為香港大館當代藝術館駐場藝術家。
目前她工作與生活於香港與台北之間。
⁙ Education
2025 Master of Fine Arts in Sinophone Literatures, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
2014 Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2008 Ist. Mag. Francesco De Sarlo, Lagonegro (Pz), Italy
⁙ Awards
2022 南瀛獎 Nanying Award, Taiwan
2022 Gold Award, The 27th IFVA, Hong Kong
2019 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards
2016 First Prize (Children Picture Category), Creative Writing in Chinese, Hong Kong
2015 Silver Award & Best Local Work, The 20th IFVA, Hong Kong
2014 Best of the Show, School of Creative Media Annual Show, Hong Kong
⁙ Residencies
2020 Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2017 Arteles Residency Program, Haukijärvi, Finland
2017 Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival, Nagano, Japan
2014 Extreme Environments Program: Antarctica Expedition, City University of Hong Kong
⁙ Solo Exhibitions
2025 From Dust to Light (Duo with Colbie Fung) , Videotage, Hong Kong
2024 Sampler, 80A Gallery, Taiwan
2023 Traces of Time, Xinying Culture Centre, Taiwan
2023 Wend a Way, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
2021 The Cave with a Wheeze, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
⁙ Group Exhibitions
2025
Experimental Panorama, Theatre Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Art After Hour: Unsettled, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
An Open Ending: TFAM Screening Project, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Hamburg Chinese Film Festival, Germany
The Pixelated You, Screening programe, Art Basel Hong Kong
2024
Metal Odysseys, “Curatorial Award”, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
"Asobi" Absence Space Nomadic Project, Tainan Arts Festival, Taiwan
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taiwan
Cross-Border Film Festival, Italy/Slovenia
ARKIPEL x Videotage: (maybe) somewhere to go, Forum Lenteng, Jakarta, Indonesia
NATURE: A PERCEPTION, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2023
Keep Up the Good Fun, Ink Asia, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Living Togetherness, 2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA), Taiwan
Phantom Horizons, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
State-less, A Two Temple Place & Kakilang Exhibition, London, UK
Diachronic Echoes, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong
after/party, Supper House, Singapore
2022
Shall We Play a Game, 480.0, Hong Kong
香港エクスペリメンタル映像特集, Image Forum Festival 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Nanying Awards Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan
Emo Gym, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2021
Lamma Mia, Public Art Exhibition, Lamma Island, Hong Kong
Art After Hours, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
ZE/RO, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
We Are Our Own Demons, Negative Space, Hong Kong
Inter-island Festival, Hong Kong
In Sync: Music in Motion, Freespace, West Kowloon, Hong Kong
2020
Kowloon City Civil Servants’ Cooperative Building Societies Exhibition, The Mahjong, Hong Kong
The Translucent White (Double solo with DOKI MIZUHO), Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
2019
Return Flight, Floating Projects, Hong Kong & Blender Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Nevertheless, History Continues, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong
Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston, Rice University, Houston, USA
2018
ifva Carnival – The City is the Cinema, Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
虛異, Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Sailing, RED CUBES in Longgang, Shenzhen, China
Passengers' Anecdotes, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2017
Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2017, Nagano, Japan
Contemporary Neoclassic – Hong Kong Ink Art, DaGuan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
HAS-BEEN-THERE, SOHO Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
Simulacrum Living: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, China
2016
Ink+, Ink Asia 2016, HKCEC, Hong Kong
The Age of Experience, Vienna, Austria
2015
POST CITY – Habitats for the 21st Century, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Art Centre, Art Basel 2015, HKCEC, Hong Kong
Pure Art Foundation Annual Show, Chai Wan Mei, Hong Kong
2014
The Writing Machine Collective (5th Edition): TRACING DATA, Hong Kong & Zurich
Extreme Environment: Antarctica Expedition & Exhibition (2013–2014), Hong Kong