About Hou Leong

Biography

• 1995 BA (Visual Art) with first class honours, Canberra School of Art, Australia National University
• 1989 Resident in Canberra
• 1983 Resident in Macau, China
• 1983 Graduated from Shanghai Huashan Fine Arts School
• 1964 Born in Shanghai, China

Public Collections (purchased)

• Australia Parliament House
• National Maritime Museum
• National Gallery of Australia

Awards & Grants

• 1997 Australia Council Visual Arts New Work Project Grant.
• 1996 ACT Cultural Development Funding Grant.

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

• 1998 "Three Degree of Separation" at Gallery 101 Melbourne; "Paradox" at Marsi Gallery, Bangkok Suan Pakkad Palace. "Three Parts Human, Seven Parts Beast" at Bangkok Kasetsart University.
• 1997 "I'm as Australian as Ampol" at the Australia House London; "Paradox" at Canberra Contemporary Art Space; "Paradox" at Australian Embassy Paris.
• 1996 "Hou Leong - An Australian" at Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia.
• 1995 "Hou Leong - An Australian" at Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, and Rex Irwin Art Dealer (Sydney).
• 1994 "Hou Leong - digital art" at Adelaide Fringe Festival.
• 1992 "Works on paper by Hou Leong" at Studio One Gallery, Canberra.

Group Exhibitions (selected)

• 2000-2001 "Federation - Australian Art and Society 1901-2001" at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• 1999 "Persuasive Humours" at Mosman Regional Art Gallery
• 1998 The Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair in Melbourne, Represented by Gallery 101; "Transit" at Art Gallery of NSW; Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition at National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW and Queensland Art Gallery; "Verve" at the S. H. Ervin Gallery Sydney.
• 1997 Gallery 101 Melbourne, Gallery 4A Opennig Show in Sydney.
• 1996 Melbourne 5th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Gallery 101; "Digitally Derived" at Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery; "Distant Relations" at Gallery 101 for the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne; Canberra Multicultural Creative Art Exhbition.
• 1995 ART ASIA Hong Kong, represented by Rex Irwin Art Dealer; "Digital State Planet Arcadia" in Next Wave's Special Event in Melbourne; Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition; "Zero One" at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.
• 1994 "ArtWorkz Six" at Gallery 101 Melbourne; "Pass Age" at Kyoto Seika University Japan.