Gayle Chong Kwan

Dr Gayle Chong Kwan is an award-winning British artist of Chinese-Mauritian and Scottish heritage, who exhibits internationally and lives and works in East London.

Gayle is known for her surreal constructed landscapes, multi-layered installations, mixed reality experiences, and sensory ritual performances of sculptural forms, structures of control, and natural growths.

Her practice explores social history, ecology, and speculative research, often working with food, foraged and waste materials, archives, collections, archaeology, and collaborative methods.

She has exhibited her work internationally in various museums and galleries, including: La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy); Fondation Valmont (Venice, Italy); Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK); William Morris Gallery (London, UK); Barbican Centre (London, UK); Bloomberg Space (London, UK); Compton Verney (Warwickshire, UK); John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK); Salisbury International Arts Festival (Salisbury, UK); Havana Biennial (Havana, Cuba); Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China); St. Walburga Church Museum (Arnhem, Netherlands); Auckland Arts Festival (Auckland, New Zealand); Tai Kwun (Hong Kong); The Edge at Bath University (Bath, UK); Asia-Pacific Biennial (Berlin, Germany).

In 2023, she took part in the artistic residency Ulysses, between Hydra (Greece) and Venice (Italy), in view of an exhibition at Fondation Valmont (2024). Gayle developed Waste Matters, a sustainable project in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice, as the winner of the Sustainable Art Prize 2019. In 2015, she was awarded the International Artist Award from the British Council.

She has a BA Hons Politics and Modern History University of Manchester, a BA Hons Fine Art Central Saint Martins, an MSc in Communications University of Stirling, an MA in Information Experience Design Royal College of Art, and a PhD in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art on Imaginal Travel: political and ecological positioning through fine art practice.

Gayle is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She delivers talks, lectures, workshops, and speaks on radio and TV about her artwork, research, and art and culture.

Gayle is representation by Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris and Venice.

www.gaylechongkwan.com

To enquire about Gayle's work please email: mark@theartistsagency.co.uk