BIOGRAPHY

Lo Yuen Ming (b.1990) is a visual artist from Hong Kong. Ming received her MFA in Fine Art from The HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (The Netherlands) in 2022 and BA from Yuan Ze University (Taiwan) in 2013. Her works have been presented in exhibitions across Hong Kong, Taiwan and Europe. Recent works were shown in West Den Haag (NL), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (TW), Casco Art Institute (NL), BAK (NL), SEA Foundation (NL), M HKA (BE) and more. Writing were published in Kunstlicht (Amsterdam) and Onomatopee (Eindhoven). 

STATEMENT
Ming is currently based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her artistic practice constructs alternative narratives that draw from daily political life with a decolonial and feminist perspective. Working with minimalist imagery and social movement archives, her long-term research intertwine abstract art and the recent past political oppression. She experiments with art forms that endure in rapidly shifting political climates. Layered with installations, moving images, and publications, Her work portrays resistance stories that have hidden in histories. 

Since 2022, Lo Yuen Ming has co-founded The Vacuum Landscape, a post-(de)colonial art collective composed of artists from Asia. Their practice involves archive curation, publications, workshops, and visual art creation. Unfolding the aesthetics of landscape within the political context of land rights. Their research address the realities of displacement and solidarity with ongoing resistance movements, narrating the present from the past dominance times.

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EDUCATION
2022    Master of Fine Art, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands
2021    Spatial Hijacks by Sculpture, Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
2014    Bachelor of Art in Visual Arts, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIP
2024    Mondriaan Fonds, Grant 
2023    Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Project Grant 
2022    The 2nd Video Art and Experimental Film Event, SEA Foundation (NL), Finalist 
2021    Thesis Award 2022, Page-not-found (NL), Award Nomination 
2021    Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria Scholarship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025    Archiving The Scene    Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 
2024    One In The Steam 藍色商店    IT PARK, Taipei, Taiwan

RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025_Pending    Speaking Landscapes    Sudut Kalisat, Jember, Indonesia
2025_Pending    Archiving The Scene #3 #4    Dream Plaza, Taipei, Taiwan
2025    Grabbing The Land Archives    West Den Haag, The Hague, NL
2025    Humanity in Times of Tension     Just Peace Festival, The Hague, NL
2024    Glued & Screwed    Filmhuis, Den Haag, The Hague, NL 
2023    Utrecht Uitfeest    Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL
2023    VAEFE II on Solidarity    SEA Foundation, Tilburg, NL
2022    Where Should We Begin? by FALKE PISANO    M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium 
2022    Scaffolding Scaffolding    BAK, Utrecht, NL
2021    VIRTUAL EMPATHY    AG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2021    Spatial Hijacks by Sculpture    Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg , Austria
2017    I Have The Conn    Comix Home Base, Hong Kong
2015    約你你又不來 789egg farm 3rd Anniversary Group Exhibition    789 Egg Farm Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2014    Scrabble_Fill The Blank    Pink Oolong Art Space,Taipei, Taiwan
2013    日子的尺度    Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2013    台展七    789 Egg Farm Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2012    save as...    YZU Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan

PUBLICATIONS
2026_Pending    The Vacuum Landscape    Co-published by Casco Art Institute & Limestone Books, NL
2024    Walking On The Canal We Called Water    Self published, NL
2023    NOSE-STALGIA: SUFFOCATING IN THE STREET    Published by KUNSTLICHT VOL. 44, NO. 2, Amsterdam, NL
2023    The Vendor: crusty island(s)    Published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2022    (Nameless Publication)    Self published by karen vantvelt, NL & BE
2022    individual activism    Master Thesis, Page Not Found library, The Hague, NL


RECENT COLLABORATION PROJECTS
2022- present    The Vacuum Landscape    Artistic Research (collective) / Archive Research / Publication    The Netherlands, Indonesia
2025    Grabbing The Archives    Workshop    West Den Haag, The Hague, NL
2024    Grabbing The Archives    Archive Tour / Workshop    IISH-International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, NL
2024    Uitfeest 2024    Group Exhibition    Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL
2024    ImaginNations: Hong Kong in Exile    Symposium of Arts & Culture    Nieuwspoort, Den Haag, NL
2024    Home Ideal    Group Exhibition    NGO DEI, The Hague, NL

ARTIST TALK & LECTURE 
2024    Filmhuis    Den Haag The Hague, NL
2024    Tamkang University    Taipei, Taiwan
2024    IT PARK    Taipei, Taiwan
2023    Master of Fine Art    HKU Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Utrecht NL

PERFORMANCE - VISUAL DIRECTION
2024-2025    Oriental Four Seasons    Painting and Music Performance    Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Zwolle (NL)
2023-2024    Diaspora    Theatrical Music Performance    Utrecht, Amsterdam (NL)
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