Born Hong Kong 1978
Lives and works in Taipei
Education
2008 MA Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2003 Degree Fine Art Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2025
Fridericianum, Kassel
2023
Disco in the Museum — I’ll Take (A), Hong-gah Museum, Taipei
The Last Piece of Cloud, TKG+,Taipei
ShugoArts Show, Lee Kit and Anju Michele, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2022
Retain a desolate face, 2022 Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2021
Lovers on the Beach, West Den Haag, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Today is the Past of Tomorrow, Two-person exhibition with Kingsley Ng Siu-king, Oi!, Hong Kong
2020
(Screenshot), ShugoArts, Tokyo
The gazing eyes won’t lie, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2019
Kunsthalle Sao Paolo, Gent, Belgium
Resonance of a sad smile, Artsonje Center, Seoul
2018
Banal, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Something about flowers, HOSPITALITY, Cologne
‘We used to be more sensitive.’, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Oi!, Hong Kong
Linger on, your lit-up shade, Casa Masaccio, Tuscany
I didn’t know that I was dead, OCAT, Shenzhen
2017
The City, My studio/ The City, My Life, Kathmandu Triennale 2017, Kathmandu
The more I ignore you, the closer you get, The Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Something you can’t leave behind, at Massimo de Carlo, Hong Kong
2016
He Knows Me, Massimo de Carlo, London
Daily Hypothesis, THG+, Taipei, Taiwan
Skin, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
Hold your breath, dance slowly, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Discordant Harmony, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
A small sound in your head, S.M.A.K, Ghent
I’ve been doing some thinking over these last few days, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai
2015
Faithless, Observation Society, Guangzhou
Please wait, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
The voice behind me, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
We’ll never go back again, Mirrored Gardens, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
2014
By the way, ShugoArts, Tokyo
‘You.’ – Response show of Venice Biennale, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
How are things on the West Coast?, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
2013
‘You (you).’, Hong Kong Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
Not Swinging, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei
2012
Every Breath You Take, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
House M, The Pavilion, Beijing
It’s Not an Easy Thing, Arrow Factory, Beijing
2011
1,2,3,4…, Lombard Freid Projects, New York
How to Set up an Apartment for Johnny?, Art Statements with Osage Gallery, Art Basel 42, Basel
Henry (Have you ever been this low?), Western Front, Vancouver
In purity, I silently reach for you., SH Contemporary Hot Sport, Shanghai
2010
Well, That’s Just a Chill, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Hands, MiArt, Milan
2009
Someone Singing and Calling our Name, Osage Soho, Hong Kong
Suit-Case, Galleria Dell’ Arco, Palermo
I’m Missing Someone But I Don’t Know Who’s That Someone, Seoul
2008
Remains from several days, Mori Gallery, Sydney
My Pillow Seems Like a Bed, a Pillow Seems like my bed., Cheng Ming Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Ready-made) Everyday, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
2007
3 / 4 suggestions for a better living, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2001
Painting Furniture, Yiliu Painting Factory, Fotan, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
2024
The surface of a mirror, mother’s tankstation, London
2023
Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
2022
A Door Ajar, Singing, Shimmer, Rotterdam
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2021
Carnivalesca, What painting might be, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
2020
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Kuandu Biennale June Yang The Artist, His Collaborators, Their Exhibition and Three Veneus, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2019
Café do Brasil, Para Site, Hong Kong
Chinese Whispers, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Austria
Là où les eaux se mêlent, Lyon Biennale, 15th edition, Lyon
To Make Wrong / Right / Now, Honolulu Biennial, Second edition, Hawaii
Jun Yang – The Artist, the work and the exhibition, Graz Kunsthalle, Graz
Close, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
Visible Soul: Around the Asia Collection of Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Fukutake House, Okayama, Japan.
2018
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2017
All watched over by machines of loving grace, Palais de Toyko, Paris
Something you need to know about FY Foundation: An Exhibition, FY Foundation, Shekou
Kathmandu International Festival, Kathmandu
When the other, meets the other? What matters?, Belgrade Culture Center, Belgrade
Delirium & Destiny, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
The Other Face of the Moon, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
Parallax, Yilan City
2016
Generosity, The Art of Giving, National Gallery in Prague
Judea, West, Den Haag
Inhale Exile, L’Escalier, Montreal
Discordant Harmony, Kuandu Museum
Discordant Harmony, Hiroshima City of Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2015
Jing Shen. The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
Happy Together, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
The Great Ephemeral, New Museum, New York
From a poem to a sunset, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Jing Shen, Patirlige d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Li Zhenhua and Biljana Ciric, Ural Biennial, Ekaterinburg
2014
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning: Sex in Hong Kong, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden
Kiev Biennial, Kiev
2013
Duchamp, Ullens Centre of the Arts, Beijing
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels, SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Cross-Strait Relations, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons the New School for Design, New York
Recent Works/Early Works, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2012
Home WHERE?, Lombard Freid Projects, New York
What should I do to live in your life?, Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Al Serkal
Printin’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
Hospitality, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2010
Popping Up, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
Exhibition Experiment, Experimental Exhibition, Wrong Place, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
2009
1 Degree of Separation, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester
Hatred of Kappagism, Y3K, Melbourne
Platform 2009, Kimusa site, Artsonje Center, Seoul
Louis Vuitton: Passion of Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Portrait of Self Exile, The Shop, Beijing
Friends of the Divided Mind, Royal College of Art, London
Some Rooms, Osage, Shanghai
Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2008
Lala Land, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong Frieze Art Fair, London
Domestic Affair, Galleri 21, Malmo
Sprout from White Night, Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou
Something Trivial, Korkos Gallery, Hong Kong
Inside Looking Out, Osage, Singapore
2007
HistoriCITY, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Time After Time, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong
Reversing Horizon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
A Separate Domain, Hui Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pearl River City, The Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania
Prison Art Museum, Victoria Prison, Hong Kong
2006
The Pearl River Delta, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
aWay – Group Exhibition of Hong Kong Visual Artists, 1a Space, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
2005
Metropolis Strip(p)ed, The Substation, Singapore
2004
Intimate Re-collection, Hanart T-Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Painting Un-painting, 1a Space, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
2003
Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Graduation: Moving Forward, Looking Back, The Museum of Art, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2000
‘sh…’, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
Awards
2013
Shortlisted Hugo Boss and Rockbund Art Museum Asia Art Prize
2008
Bolton Street Artist in Residence, Wellington
2003
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award in Painting, The Art of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bibliography
2023
Whitfield, Christopher, ‘Lee Kit’s Ghostly Clouds Question the Limits of Perception’, ArtReview Asia, 20 June
2022
Maerkle, Andrew, ‘Lee Kit: ‘The gallery has become my studio’’, Art Basel Stories, April
2021
Batten, John, ‘Another Garden of Remembrance’, Artomity Magazine, 30 July
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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Chow, Jason, ‘Lee Kit Named Hong Kong’s Entry to the Venice Biennale’,The Wall Street Journal, June
2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
O’Neil, Rachel, ‘Lala-Land’ International Association of Art Critics Hong Kong, February
Berger, Tobias, ‘The artist came from Hong Kong’, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, January
Peckham, Robin, ‘Lui Chun Kwong and Lee Kit’ Art Asia Pacific, no. 61 Nov-Dec
Morin, Claire, ‘Interview’, Artslant China
Buxton, Susie ‘The Thinker’s Artist’, Time Out Hong Kong, no. 18
2007
Antoinette, Michelle, ‘Making Art in a Foreign Land’, Asia New Zealand Foundation Magazine, Autumn
Leung, Janice ‘Outside Looking In’, Eyeline-Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 64. South China Morning Post, June