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Bianca Lei
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     Gained Master of Art in Fine Art, Middlesex University in 2001 in London, UK ("First Class" in Final Exhibition); and BA(Hons) in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University in 2000 in Nottingham, UK.


     As a full-time lecturer in the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute, programme curator in Macao Ox Warehouse Art Space and organiser of EXiM --Experimental Video Festival in the present day.

 

     On concentration in Bianca’s artworks is the dynamic relationship between mankind and environment factors (including place, time etc.). Bianca has reflected on issues deriving from rapid urban development in Macau over the last few years, and explored the boundaries between different media, image carrier (such as canvas) and the image itself, and an artwork and its exhibit space. Bianca uses a variety of media, materials and methods to interpret art.


Solo Exhibitions
2012     "Painting the Space – Works by Bianca Lei Sio Chong", AFA, Beijing


2008     "Media Discursiveness – Impermanent Intrusion – Bianca Lei Solo Exhibition", in St. Paul’s Fine Art         
            Gallery, Macao


2003     "Seesaw Struggle – Lei Sio Chong (Bianca) Video Installation Exhibition", in Ox Warehouse, Macao 

Group Exhibitions
2016    "Mio Peng Fei & his students" exhibition, Gu Yuan Museum of Art, ZhuiHai, Mainland China.
             "The Return of Elegancy"-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art of Museum, Shenzhen, Mainland

              China.
             "Pedra XX" –Installation Exhibition ", Perda Anchorage 20 years of Comuna de Pedra, Art Garden, Macau
             "Lost in the Mobius -- Taiwan.Macau" Taipei Artist Village & FreeS Art Space, Taiwan; Ox warehouse, Macau
             "Theory of Evolution: Art Spaces Exchange Programme" - OX Warehouse Art Space, Macau.


2015    "A Reconstruction of the Fading Memory" - Video Creation Exhibition, Central Library, Macau
            "MAP"exhibition, Albergue SCM, Macau
            "Artist Fair Taiwan 2015", Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome, Taiwan


2014    "VAFA 2014" – International Video Art Festival, The Oriental Foundation, Macau.
            "FICH – 1º Festival Internacional de Cinema Chinês e Lusófono", Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal.
            "Onde é a China / Where is China?", Bejing World Art Museum, China Millennium Monument, Bejing, Mainland

             China ; Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal.
            "HKEX – Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong", Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City

             University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
            "Crossroads • Another Dimension – A Cross-strait Four-regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013", Hong Kong City

             Hall Low Block, Hong Kong.


2013    "Crossroads • Another Dimension – A Cross-strait Four-regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013", He Xiangning

             Art Museum, Shenzhen, Mainland China; Macau Museum of Art, Macau; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts,

             Taiwan.
            "Asynchronous States -AIA Asia in Independent Asia", VT Artsalon & FreeS Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan.


2012    "ORBIS Charity Day", Macau Tower , Macau.
            "MC Biennale" Joint Exhibition of Collaborative Artists, MC Gallery, Macau.
            "JETLAG"--Multimedia contemporary art in China, FH Hanover (faculty III) and Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover,

             Germany.


2011   "Nostalgia Refreshed : Old Macao + New Media", in Macau Art Museum, Macao
            "Similarity and Difference - Guangzhou/Macau Contemporary Art Exhibition", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Imaginary Belongings – Macau Contemporary Art", Museu Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal


2010   "Image of Macao – The Experimental Video Works from Macao", EX!T 2010 – the Experimental 
             Media Art Festival in Taiwan, Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Taipei
            "Own our City, Own our Art! – AFA AUTUMN SOLAN", The Oriental Foundation, Macao
            "Macau UBPA Section", Shanghai World Expo, ShangHai, Mainland China
            "Art Beijing 2010", National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, Mainland China
            "Human Emotion Project (HEP) – International Artists using Film & Video", AFA Beijing    
             Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, Mainland China


2009   "S/low – Macau/Xiaozhou Art In Live Festival", in Xiaozhou Village, Guangzhou, Mainland China
            "Human Emotion Project (HEP) – International Artists using Film & Video", in Portuguese 
             Bookshop Gallery        
            "Macao Independent Film & Video – Olá Beijing! Macao Contemporary Art in Beijing  
            "Activities", in Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, Mainland China 
            "The Saddest Place on Earth Visit Macao", in Pin-to-Book bookstore, Macao 
            "The 5th China (Shenzhen) international Cultural Industries Fair", in Mainland China
            "100% Macau Original", in Albergue Gallery, Macao


2008   "Prelude to the 10th Anniversary of 1999 Macao Handover art exhibition", in Ox warehouse, Macao
            "Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York 2008" (ACAF NY), New York, USA
            "23rd Asia International Art Exhibition", in Ucity Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy 
             of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, Mainland China
            "Pre-Exhibition of 23rd Asia International Art Exhibition", in Albergue Gallery, Macao
            "Exhibition of Macau Contemporary", AFA Beijing Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, Mainland China
            "Illusion • Control-Contemporary Art Exhibition", Pedra‧ Xiaozhou Art Space, Guangzhou, Mainland China
            "Art Beijing 2008",National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, Mainland China
            "Winds of Cool: 16 Macao Contemporary Artists Summer Show", St. Paul’s Fine Art, Macao
            "Emulation and Truth – A View of Contemporary Art in Macao" -- Group Exhibition of Macao Artists 
             in Guangzhou, in Ucity Art Museum of The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, Mainland China


2007   "Six Artists – Macao Contemporary Art Exhibition", in St. Paul’s Fine Art Gallery, Macao
            "Macau Contemporary Paintings - 2007", in Macau Art Museum, Macao
            "Time‧Space‧Flow, International Contemporary Arts Exhibition", in the Pier 2 Art District, Kaohsiung,        
             Taiwan & in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Place – Act II, Exhibition of Macao Contemporary Art", in Macau Art Museum, Macao
            "Myth of Place", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Dependance-independence video art screening", in Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland


2006   "Moving Castle, Exchange Exhibition of Four Cities", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Myth of Place", Nolias Gallery 2, London, UK
            "Octomania(on drawing the number eight)", Parasite art space, Hong Kong
            "Macau Contemporary Paintings-2006", Macau Art Museum, Macao
            "Microcosmo – Chinese Contemporary Art", Macau Art Museum, Macao


2005   "The Second Guangzhou Triennial- Self Organization", Guangzhou Xinyi International Club, 
             Guangzhou, Mainland China    
            "2005 Daejeon FAST – Image of Macao", Gallery of Hanbat Library, Library of Daejeon City, Korea
            "Macau New Wave - Exhibition of Contemporary art", Macau Art Museum, Macao
            "The Empty Quarter", Bournemouth, UK
            "Ruins’ Flowers Contemporary Photographic Works Exhibition", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Life Community – Multi-media art exhibition", The Millennium Gallery, Macao


2004   "Today and Tomorrow Macau Contemporary Photography Exhibition", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Macao Original Video Exhibition 2004", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "The City, the Community, the Images Video Installation Exhibition", in the Northern District, Macao 
            "The Fulbright Film Symposium - Showcase for works by Macau video artists", The University of Macau,
            Macao
            "Macau Contemporary Paintings", Macau Art Museum, Macao


2003   "Macao Original Video Exhibition 2003", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Video Café", in 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
            "Sketch Extension III", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "The 2003 International Open Image Competition (IOI) Showcase", in the Deluxe Gallery 
             Hoxton Square, London, UK              
            "The OX in the year of Sheep Exhibition", in the OX Warehouse Opening, Macao
            "The 19th Macao Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition", in the Gallery of the Department of 
             Municipal & Civil Affairs, Macao


2002   "Macao Original Video Exhibition 2002", in the Old Ladies House Art Space, Macao
             Macao Fringe 2002 – "Life-size Palace", Installation Arts Exhibition, in the Ruin of 
            "Ilha Verde" Monastery, Macao


2001   "MA Fine Art 2001", London, UK
            "Parallel Realities", Quicksilver Place Gallery, London, UK
            "Edge", Byan Shaw Gallery, London, UK


2000   "Sweet Fa", Nottingham, UK


1998   "The π annual Exhibition of PHICS", Long Beach, USA
            "Beyond 30x22 printmaking show", Long Beach, USA


1996   "Chinese Traditional Painting Show", the Gallery of the School of Visual Art, Macao

 

1994   "Photography Workshop 94", the Gallery of the School of Visual Art, Macao
            "The Woman Chinese Painting Artists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Exhibition", Macao

 

Curating
2014     "Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong: The Social Turn (HKEX)", Run Run Shaw Creative Media

            Centre, City University of Hong Kong

 

2013     "Mid-air Journey - Paintings by Lai Sio Kit", AFA, Beijing


2012   "The Secret Garden – Paintings by Lai Sio Kit", AFA Gallery, Macao


2011   "EXiM 2011 - Asian Experimental Video Festival in Macao", in Ox Warehouse, Macao
            "Study Void – Duncan Mountford Installation Artwork Exhibition", in Ox Warehouse, Macao

 

2010   "Image of Macao --- The Experimental Video Works from Macao", EX!T 2010 – the Experimental 
             Media Art  Festival in Taiwan, Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, Taipei
            "Fantasy Party – Toy Figure Exhibition", in Pavilhão de Exposições e Espectáculos  
             Artísticos para Jovens, Macao

 

2009   "Fresh Artists - The Art Exhibition of Young Artists from the Cross Strait 4 Regions", in Ox 
             Warehouse, Macao

 

2008   "Talks & Exhibition 2008 -Video Art Activities", in Ox Warehouse, Macao
            "Macao Video Artwork Exhibition", in Ucity Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine 
             Arts, Guangzhou, Mainland China

 

2007   "Talks & Exhibition -Video Art Activities", in OX Warehouse, Macao
            "Myth of Place", in OX Warehouse, Macao

 

2006   "Myth of Place", in Nolias Gallery 2, London, UK

 

2005   "Excel Design - Exhibition of awarded works from students of School of Arts", in Macao 
             Polytechnic Institute, Macao

 

2004   "Airborne system mode - Contemporary Art Exhibition" (Artists from UK, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) 
            "The City, the Community, the Images - Video Installation Exhibition", in the Northern District, Macao


Other Arts Activities
2012   Artwork creation for "ORBIS 30th Anniversary Charity Credit Card", the project of Obris x 
            Wing Hang Bank x AFA x Macao Artist, Macao

 

2010   Organised the "HKIndieFF in Macau", in Ox Warehouse, Macao
            Art director, a short film "Just One Dollar", Macao

 

2009   Organised the "Contemporary Moving Image Activity - Chinese Independent Film 1+1 Festival", 
            in Ox Warehouse, Macao
            Live video creation for "The Prosperity Alarm of the Goldfish Tank in Nam Van Lake" 
            performance, Macau city Fringe 2009, in St. Paul Fine Art Gallery, Macao

 

2008   Art director, a short film "Macao Stories -A Right Time", Macao

 

2007   Video creation for the "CREB: Camp Response Element-Binding" performance, Macao Fringe 2007, Macao

 

2006   Installation work in the site-specific dance theatre - "Kafka listening to the wind", in 
            Culture Centre, Macao

 

2003   Editor, the "Macao Art Net Website", Cultural Institute, Macao
            Presenter for the Video Screening and the Debate with the curator Hanspeter Ammann, in 
            the "Beauty and  Meaning" International Video Art Cycle in the 14th Macao Arts Festival, in Macao

 

2002   Art Director, a TV programme "Love. Lost Count", the TV department of RTHK, in Macao

 

2001   Worked with Belgium Artist Joelle Teurlinckx, Christoph Fink and Ria Pacquee in an Art 
            Project which was about space, body and language, London, UK


2000   Exhibition Assistant, British Artist Duncan Mountford’s Solo Exhibition - "Ordinary Facts 
            Arranged within Time" in Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

 

1998   Worked with USA artist Brian Sanderson in an "Exchange Print" Printmaking Project, California, USA
            Organised the exhibition – "The annual Exhibition of PHICS" with other students, 
            California State University, Long Beach, USA

Academic, Scholarly and Teaching Experience
2003-present   Full-time Lecturer, the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute.

 

2012               Article –"The status of Experimental Moving Image in Macao", published in the 
                      magazine "Black Reader", Seoul, Korea.

 

2010               Article for publication and presentation – "The development and status of 
                      experimental video in Macao", EX!T 2010 – the Experimental Media Art Festival 
                      in Taiwan, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre,Taiwan.
                      Speaker, "Seminar-Video Art and Human Emotions, Experimental Art Department", 
                      Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Mainland China.


2009-2011       Design Programme Validation Coordinator, the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute.


2009               Publications: The Sixth chapter: "The International development trend of Higher 
                      Education in Visual Arts.",《Prospects for Macao Higher Education in Visual 
                      Arts》by the School of Arts, Macao  Polytechnic Institute, published by the 
                      Guangdong Higher Education Press, 2009.
                      Tutor, art creation course, "Fresh Artists" project in 2009, in Ox Warehouse, Macao.


2007               Speaker, video art in "Video Creation Activities", organised by the "CUT" audio-
                      visual association, in Macao.


2006-2007       Design Programme Coordinator, the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute.
                      Design Programme Validation Coordinator, the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute.


2005-2006       Design, Music(educational) and Visual Arts (educational) Programme Validation 
                      Coordinator and completed three Programme Validation Reports, the School of Arts, 
                      Macao Polytechnic Institute.


2006               Tutor, video art course in the "2nd Museum Guide Training Programme", organised by 
                      the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao.
                      Tutor, the "Workshops for Inspiring Youth – Video Art Appreciation" organised 
                      jointly by the "Stone communes" and the Macao Cultural Centre, Macao.


2003-2004       Tutor for the video installation course, organised by the "CUT" audio-visual 
                      association, in Macao. 


2003        Speaker for a seminar - "New Century Vision – Video Art", invited by the Macau Art 
                      Museum, in Macao. 
                      Speaker for a seminar - "The Picture Life – Spiritual Touch" of the Teachers 
                      Workshop, invited by the Breakthrough Limited, Hong Kong.
                      Tutor for Video Art DV Workshop in the "Be Fun, No Smoking" Young People DV
                      Production Project, organized by the "Serviço de Sáude", "Instituto de Acção 
                      Social", the "Associção de Audio-Visual CUT" and the "Associçao de Escoteiros 
                      de Macau (AEM)" and the Association of Chinese Students of  Macao, in Macao.
 

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