Michelle Fung 馮捲雪
(b. 1982)

Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung’s lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in year 2084. In recent years, she has focused on woodcut drawings and paintings of imagined future worlds. Made with detailed carving and layers of rendering, these sculptural paintings on wood feature surreal landscapes, dotted with magical animals, with intricate texture and carved pattern. These imagined worlds offer a glimpse of how our future would look had we continued a path of unfettered consumption.

She had held solo exhibitions at Hong Kong Art Centre (2023), the national museum Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria as the invited guest artist of the Quarantine Film Festival (2022), leading artist-run galleries in Australia (2019) and California (2018), as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019).

In fall 2022, she travelled to the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen, and arctic Svalbard to conduct research for her imaginary arctic country Northlandia. Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals and she has participated in many international residencies including Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China (2023), the Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard (2022), Art Omi, NY, USA (2016) and Banff Centre, Canada (2010).

Her works have garnered many local and international awards, including the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize and semifinalist for the Print Center’s 98th Annual International Competition (Philadelphia, USA).

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