Kristy Chan

b. 1997

Hong Kong-born, London-based artist Kristy Chan explores how environments shape one’s identity. Previous series of works have seen the artist explore the disorientation of existing between Eastern and Western cultures through kaleidoscopic colour fields and indistinct figures. She traverses figuration and abstraction to form energetic, intuitive and autobiographical compositions. Departing from surreal and dizzying junctures in contemporary life, Chan describes her works as “stolen realities”. Predominantly working with densely applied oil paint and oil sticks, Chan’s paintings are a visual archive of intense personal interactions situated amongst the fleeting dynamism of the city.

Chan completed her BFA at UCL Slade School of Fine Art in 2019 and her MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2020.

Selected recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Night Studio’, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2024); ‘Molehill Mountaineer’, The Cabin (Los Angeles, 2023); ‘Binge’, The Artist Room and Simon Lee Gallery (London, 2022); ‘Strong Cookie’, Prior Art Space (Berlin, 2022). Selected recent group exhibitions include: ‘Cold Enough For Snow’, Workplace (London, 2025); ‘Immaterial’, Soho Revue (London, 2025); ‘Untalely’, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2023); ‘Bordercrossing’, Yuz Museum (Shanghai, 2023); ‘Women in Abstraction’, What’s Up/Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2023); ‘Immersed’, curated by Jack Siebert, (Los Angeles, 2023); ‘Lightness of Being’, KWAI FUNG HIN (Hong Kong, 2023).

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