Wong Chi Yung

Chi-yung Wong is a cross-disciplinary artist-curator whose work covers experiential installation, light installation, creative education, and cultural exchanges between the arts and sciences. Chi-yung’s specialization in light has led him to create and install exhibitions involving interdisciplinary collaborations across the fields of theatre lighting and architecture lighting.

Chi-yung’s interest in cross-cultural partnerships and his desire to expand his leadership skills have led him in pursuit of various goals on his path to become an artist-curator, such as creating and leading projects between Europe and Hong Kong; fostering communication and collaboration between artists and scientists; developing artistic-initiatives for mental health awareness; and helping to implement creative education proposals for underprivileged teenagers. Since 2016, Chi-yung has lived between Hong Kong and Europe in order to create and curate cultural exchange projects with several European art organizations, such as the Theatre of Liege, Belgium, West Kowloon Cultural Authority, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Zurich University of the Arts, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Artists-in-Labs Program (Zurich) and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

In 2013, Chi-yung proposed an initiative to the French Consulate to create the first edition of the Festival of Light in Hong Kong, which led to the realization of the festival in 2017, and was selected as one of the key artists to represent Hong Kong, presented by the Festival Lumière Hong Kong and Hong Kong government. In 2018, he was selected by the IMPACT festival, which was funded by the European Commission, to lead artistic talents and technical experts from Belgium, France and Hong Kong in creating a large-scale installation.

Chi-yung holds a Master of Transdisciplinary Arts Studies from the Zurich University of Arts, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts (majoring in Theatre Lighting Design) and was the first lighting student who graduated with First Class Honors from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2003. He obtained his Visual Arts degree at the Paris VIII Université, Saint Denis in 2006. He also studied French Language and Civilization in La Sorbonne Université. He was the first Asian student to propose and attend an exchange study program with the Theatre Academy of Finland in 2001. He was one of the recipients of the Alexandre Yersin scholarship from the French Consulate in Hong Kong.

Since 2007, Chi-yung has been commissioned by many festivals and organizations, including the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Le French May Festival, Consulat Général de France à Hong Kong, agnès b., Librairie Galerie Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation. He was also the lighting design director for Hirsch Bender Associates Hong Kong and has worked as the lighting consultant for the fashion houses Chanel and Louis Vuitton.

Source: HKATTS