Alice Kok   郭恬熙
(b. 1978 in Macau, China)

Alice Kok left to France in 1998. She has graduated with the National Master Degree of Fine Arts (DNSEP) in Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse in France in 2004. After her graduation she has lived and worked in Paris where she has obtained La Bourse Individuelle a la Creation granted by La DRAC Ile-de-France and has created the video work “Karabic OK” (2006). After travelling in India and Tibet in 2007 where she has Xinished the project “Yet in Exile – Family Script”, the Xilm was selected in the Ten Finalists for Asian Award at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Award in 2009. And the Xilm was screened at the Cultural Centre of Hong Kong. “Family Script” was then selected in the Gwangju Biennale in Korea in 2010. In 2011, her work “Passing-Green Island” has been selected to represent the Macau Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art in Italy.

Her works are based on the idea of Multiculturalism at the post-colonial époque. In recent years, after her travel in India and Tibet, she started to incorporate Buddhist Philosophy and meditation practices into her artistic expressions. As her current project, she is also incorporating Tibetan painting and drawing techniques into her multimedia projects. She uses media such as video, photography, writings, drawings and installations. Currently living in Macau and China, she has worked as the Editor of the bilingual (English & Chinese) magazine Macau CLOSER, visiting professor at the University of Science and Technology, University of St. Joseph and the Institute of Tourism in Macau. Currently working as a full-time artist, she is also a freelance writer and art teacher.

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