Peres Projects

Mak2 (b. 1989 in Hong Kong, China)

• Lives and works in Hong Kong, CN

Education

2013

• BA (HONS), Creative Media, School of Creative Media, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN

Upcoming Solo Exhibition

• Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

Solo Exhibitions

2021

• House of Fortune, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, CN

2019

• Home Sweet Home, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, CN

2018

• The Anything Machine, de Sarthe Gallery, Beijing, CN

2017

• COMEINSIDE: EAT ME, PingPong 129, Hong Kong, CN
• COMEINSIDE: BABY SHOWER, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, CN

2016

• Art-It, HOCA Foundation, Hong Kong, CN

2014

• *Almost Empty, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, CN
• *Fotanian Open Studios, Hong Kong, CN

2012

• Funny Stationery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, CN

Group Exhibitions

2021

• Mirage or Reality, Shanghai Art Mall, Shanghai, CN
• The Principle of Hope, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN
• Only A Joke Can Save Us, Present Projects, Hong Kong, CN
• What’s Next?, WOMANBOSS, Hong Kong, CN

2020

• A’fair, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, CN
• How Do We Begin?, X Museum Triennial 1st Edition, X Museum, Beijing, CN

2019

• Hot Flows: Pearl River Delta Arts Retrospective, Ox Warehouse, Macau, CN
• Whatever Works, Whatever It Takes, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, CN
• We Didn’t Mean to Break It (But It’s Ok, We Can Fix It), Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT

2018

• Beckoning the Mutation, Club Pro Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
• Invisible Cities, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, US
• .com/.cn –, co-presented by K11 Art Foundation (KAF) and MoMA PS1, K11 art museum, Shanghai, CN

2017

• Reversal Ritual, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, China
• Marching in Circles, Long March, Beijing, China

2016

• Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• COME INSIDE Autograph Signings, OCAT, Shenzhen, CN
• Bori Bunder, Sir JJ College of Art, Mumbai, IN
• A Man Who Doesn’t Celebrate His Birthday, Clark House Initiative Mumbai, IN
• Bori Bunder, VT Station Platform B, Mumbai, IN
• Performance with C&G @ LUNG CHING Game Zone, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong, CN
• Pop-up Shop: Conversations | ruangrupa: Toko Pura-Pura, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, CN
• Fashion ID, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong, CN
• MaD The Free Markerteers Singing Performance with C&G, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong, CN

2015

• The Second CAFAM-Future Exhibition: Observer Creator – The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN
• Sparkle! Regarding Lightness: On Life’s Way, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, CN
• Under the Influence, Floor 5 1/2, Hong Kong, CN
• After/Image, Studio 52, Hong Kong, CN
• The Second CAFAM-Future Exhibition: Observer Creator, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong, CN
• Glossy! Shiny! Fertility!, StarProjects, Hong Kong, CN

2014

• Artistic or Autistic – The Seventh Annual Exhibition, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN
• Shampoo Whatever #1, The A-lift Gallery, Hong Kong, CN

2013

• Regarding Lightness - The Weight of Lightness: Bio-gravity, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, CN
• BOING!, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
• SOFT OFF (but I love it when your mouth is a little shut), LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
• SCM Annual, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, CN

2012

• Cool Kids, Lane Crawford, Hong Kong, CN
• Media Art & The Environment: The Desert Metropolis, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, CN

2011

• House of Sound, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, CN
• Best Before, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong, CN

2010

• Micro Narratives: Invented Time & Space, Blue Room, Hong Kong, CN

Awards

2013

• Creative Media Award – School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN

Residencies

2016

• Bori Bunder @ [En]counters 2016 - Hong Kong X Mumbai Art Exchange Project, Mumbai, IN

2014

• Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, CN

Collections

• Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, Ichikawa, JP
• Divide by Zero Art Collection, Hong Kong, CN
• X Museum, Beijing, CN
• JPMorgan Chase Collection, New York, US
• UBS Art Collection, New York, US

Selected Bibliography

2022

• Prestige 40 under 40 2021, Prestige Hong Kong, September 9, 2022
• Interview with Founder Pascal de Sarthe, Jetsetter Magazine, January 2022

2021

• Chu, Jamie, Fate and Fortune, Spike Magazine, Issue 70, Winter 2021-2022
• Choi, Yui, Interview with Conceptural artist Mak Ying Tung 2, Marie Claire Hong Kong, December 29, 2021
• Hobson, Benedict, Hong Kong artists and designers create “winter playscapes” for Design Trust Gala 2021, dezeen, December 21, 2021
• Bhargava, Aaina, Tarot, astrology, feng shui – why is Hong Kong’s art world going dotty over divination?, South China Morning Post, December 1, 2021
• Mak Ying Tung 2 plays creative games with fate, Jet Magazine, no. 231, November 2021
• Bailey, Stephanie, Mak2 Claims Her Future in House of Fortune, Ocula Magazine, October 13, 2021
• Ko, Christina, Ying Kwok Takes us Through a Year of Exhibitions, Highlighting the Priceless Role of a Curator, Prestige, May 17, 2021

2020

• Artsy Vanguard Artists 2020, Artsy Vanguard, December 2020
• Samper, Cristina, Mak Ying Tung 2 Steps Out of the Ordinary as she Reimagines Conceptual Matters, Art of Choice, October 23, 2020
• Wong, Pamela, Hong Kong: Mak Ying Tung 2, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 119, July/August 2020
• Bhargava, Aaina, Feminist YouTuber Mak Ying-tung on challenging Damien Hirst, braving an open mic, and addressing serious issues in her signature ‘fun and crazy’ way, South China Morning Post, May 20, 2020

2019

• Chow, Vivienne, Twelve works of art that chart the emotional upheavals of the Hong Kong protests, Quartz, December 31, 2019
• A Hong Kong Artist Commissioned Anonymous Painters to Render Her Sims Interiors on Canvas. The Results Are Unnerving, Artnet News, December 20, 2019

2018

• Feola, Josh, China’s tech boom has inspired a wave of internet-related art, MIT Technology Review, December 19, 2018
• Afnan, Nooshfar, Mak Ying Tung 2, Artomity Magazine, September 3, 2018
• Berg, Tatiana, Must-See Art Guide: Beijing, Artnet News, July 5, 2018
• Mouna, Tom, The Anything Machine: Mak Ying Tung 2, Art Pacific Asia, May 2018
• Wong, Winnie, On Smallness in Hong Kong Art, M+ Magazine, January 5, 2018
• Sanchez-Kozeyreva, Christina, Mak Ying Tung On Subverting Systems of Power and Oppression with Participatory Media Art, Sleek Magazine, January 4, 2018