Pak-Keung
Wan
Forthcoming Group Exhibition
Sept-Oct, 2024 Delve/Ahondar, Josep Renau Gallery, Universitat Politecnica De Valencia, Spain.
Showing alongside artists Lucia King, Helena Goldwater, Mia Taylor, Del Saz Miriam, Javier Olivera, The Mochu
Education
1992-94 MA Fine Art Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London, UK (Henry Moore Scholarship)
1989-92 BA Hons Fine Art (1st Class), West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK
1988-89 Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Nene College, Northampton, UK
Solo Shows
2022 on why some things form & other things don't (again), IE Art Projects, Virtual Solo Show
2017 on why some things form and other things don't, The Art House, Wakefield, UK
2011 Ellipsis, G1 Gallery, Solihull Arts Complex, West Midlands, UK
2007 Morphologies, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK
2001 New Work, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1998 New Work, The Queen's Gallery, New Delhi, India
1995 Spring Blows, Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Group Shows
2019 Between Exits - Pending Issues, Weisser Elefant Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Anonyme Zeichner Archive, Kunsthaus Kannen (Museum Outsider/Contemporary Art), Munster, Germany
2018 9th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal
2017 3rd Global Print, international contemporary printmaking practice, Douro, Portugal
2014 from here and there: drawings from the UK, Elysium Gallery Off-Site, Swansea, Wales
from here and there: drawings from Colorado and Swansea, Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado, USA
Small Works 3, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York, USA
Pen, site-specific interventions, Pen Museum, Birmingham, UK
2012 Out-Line, exploring the mutabilities of drawing practice, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK
2008 Anonyme Zeichner No:9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2005 Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom, exploring links between art, archeology, collecting, curated by Edward Allington. The Collection, Lincoln. UK
2004-05 Commissioned artworks in response to the new development-Grange Park, South Northamptonshire, Regional Arts Lottery funded
2004 Marks in Space, exploring relationships between drawing and sculptural form, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2003 Pizza Express Prospects Drawing Prize, Loading Bay Gallery, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2002 O2xygen, addressing the concepts of breath and disorders of breathing, White Box, New York, USA
2001 Hart 2001, Quay Arts, audio-visual installation, Grosvener Mill by the River Humber, Hull, UK
2000 Journey, a two-person show with sculptor Walter Bailey, Fabrica, Brighton, UK, a live transmission via mobile phone of a six-week walk from Northampton to Brighton
Artist Residencies
2017 Sometimes Residency programme, The Art House, Wakefield, UK
2012 Studio Residency, New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, UK
2004 Artist in Residence, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, research and production for the show Marks in Space
1998 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1997/98 Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship Award in the Arts and Crafts, research, study network and production over 9 months in India, culminating in a solo show at the Queen's Gallery, New Delhi
1997 Lowick House Print Workshop, Cumbria, UK
1995 University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Commercial Practice
2021 - Work selected as part of the interior design project 'Curating the Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown'. Curated by Indiewalls, New York.
2015-present Featured Artist of the London-based art sellers Rise Art. Buyers of my work include The Trafalgar St James Hotel, London and WeWork, Madrid.
2008 Production of a suite of Chinese Constellation drawings, commissioned by the Planetarium at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, UK, showing at Williamsville Space Lab, New York and Stardome Observatory and Planetarium, Auckland, New Zealand.
Publications
Illustrations and instructions of chi gong exercises produced forTool Box, a publication of ideas, inspiration, games by artists from a working class background for the men at HMP Leicester, publ: Library Books, 2020
Harmonic Patterns and Solar Forces, Interview, The Plus Paper, 16 Dec, 2020
Pak Keung Wan - Thinking through space, Jungle Magazine, Sept 13, 2017
On The Surface, Selvedge Magazine, June 04, 2017
Pak Keung Wan, Interview, Art Reveal Magazine no:27, March 2017, pg 110-115, ISBN: 9781366130075
Q&A with Pak Keung Wan, Rise Art, Dec 1st, 2015
Marks in Space, Chapter-Locus 6, pg 29-30, text by Alain Ayers, 2004, ISBN: 0 9539238 2 7
Pak Keung Wan, Angel Row Gallery, 2001, ISBN: 0 905634 50 0
Reviews
10/12/12 Review of Ellipsis, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide
08/09/07 Review of Morphologies, Robert Clark, Guardian Guide
12/2007 Review of Morphologies, Hugh Dichmont, Artist Newsletter
27/06/01 Review Solo Show Angel Row Gallery, Robert Clark, Guardian Guide
Public Speaking
2013 Symposium, The Insistence of Drawing, University of Northampton, UK
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Invitations to Speak on the Visiting Artist Lecture Programmes:
Central St Martins, London - 2021
Wimbledon College of Art, London - 2018
University of Derby
University of Lincoln
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Scarborough Tec