Artists

Yuen Fong Ling

 

 

Ling’s recent work explores the social, political and cultural conditions of ‘looking at each other’ reflecting on its development in the ways and the means with which we see ourselves. In his ongoing “Life Class Series”, Ling alters the format of the observational life class as a metaphor for the wider social arena of spectatorship. Here, the life class simultaneously entangles the audience into the reading, making and staging of the artwork, where the resulting documentation questions the relationship between perception and representation, and the gap that persists. Ling simultaneously encompasses the practice of artist as model cum curator into a singular activity to ask questions of the nature of authorship, power, and a body of relations.

 

Current:

2007-10    PhD Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

 

Education:

2007    MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
1994    BA Fashion/Textiles, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool   
           

Solo Exhibitions/Performances:

2008    ‘Life Class: New Art from Sichuan’, The Collection, Lincoln, March
2007    ‘A Portrait for Preston’, Harris Museum & Gallery, Preston, July   
             ‘A Portrait of the Family’, URBIS, Manchester, Jan

2006    ‘A Portrait of Time Square’, Time Square, New York, Oct
2006    ‘A Portrait of the Oriental’, Royal Academy of Art, London, July
2006    ‘The Model Speaker’, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Jun

2002    ‘GREAT ART’, International 3, Manchester, Oct-Nov    


Group Exhibitions/Performances:

2007    ‘Stick*Stamp*Fly*’, Gasworks, London, Aug-Sept
2007  'Academy Lights 2007’, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing touring throughout China, Denmark, Australia and UK
2007    ‘Furthermore’ MFA Degree Show 2007, Tramway, Glasgow, July
2007    ‘I would like to Thank God…’, screening CCA, Glasgow, Feb
2007    ‘Videovaca’, Galleribox, Akureyi, Iceland, Jan
2007    ‘Arrivals & Departures’, URBIS, Manchester, Jan-July

2006    ‘Video Bacchanal’, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, New York, Dec
2006    ‘Bazaar’, The Open Eye Club presents, Tramway, Glasgow, Nov     


Projects/Curation/Writing Commissions:  

2007    ‘Arrivals & Departures’ (curator), URBIS, Manchester, Jan-July

2006    ‘Shadow Play’ (writer), www.seeandseen.net, published Dec
2006    ‘Artists Returns’ (writer), catalogue essay for Pam So at Collins Gallery, Glasgow  


Awards: 

2007    Research Preparation Masters Scheme, Arts & Humanities Research Council (MFA Glasgow School of Art)

2006     Visual Arts Award, Arts Council England (Arrivals & Departures)


Bibliography:   

2002    Padraig Timoney, ‘Golden Section’, ‘A BOOK OF PAGES’, i3 Publishing  

 

 

 


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