Man Mei-To

Man Mei-To was born in Guangdong in 1990 and raised in Hong Kong. She now lives and works between Hong Kong and London. Man obtained her MFA (Sculpture) from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, in 2024. She received a BA (Painting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in 2017, majoring in painting. Man’s artworks tell stories with materials as the point of departure and delve into various mediums on a technical level. Through observing the intimacy of the body, she explores urban vistas, life under urbanization, and transient things. Her works aim to raise awareness of the existence of all kinds of beings as well as the connections between their fragility and silence by objectifying, cloning, reconstructing, or quantifying elements found in everyday life.

 

2024  Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, United Kingdom

2017  BA in Fine Arts – Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Leaking Frontier, Hive Becoming Space, Shanghai, China

2023 Restless Resilience, 1999 Art Space, Hong Kong

2021 Silent Whisper, Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists Residency Studio B, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

2019 Sediment and Undercurrent, ACO Art Space, Hong Kong

2018 The Distance of Space, Floating Projects, Hong Kong

2016  Laundry Shop, A Walk with A3, Hong Kong

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2025 The Muse Residency Winter Group Show, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2024 Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China

Hazy Horizons, The NOHO Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Residency Competition 2025, The Muse Gallery, London, United Kingdom

The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Farringdon, London, United Kingdom

Drawer inside the barlines, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree Show 2024, London, United Kingdom

The Nomenclature of Colours III, Online Exhibition, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, Slade School of Fine Art, London

JCCAC Art Basel Parallel Exhibition – A Preface to Magnificence, JCCAC L1 Gallery, Hong Kong

The Dazzling Edge of Darkness: 1 Day Sculpture Park, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom

How to Play Hopscotch?, Koppel Collective, London, United Kingdom

Bird of Shape, Tangent Projects, Barcelona, Spain

Interlude, Lewisham Arthouse, London, United Kingdom

Tokens of Remembrance, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2023 Slade MA/MFA Interim Showcase 2023, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

The Collectible Art Fair, Jockey Club Atrium & Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

Tiger A(r)m Strong Biennale – The Tailed Scar, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong

Colour/Print/Poetry, Online Exhibition, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium V, Slade School of Fine Art, London

2022 Be 40 Mixed-Media Exhibition, Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong

Spinning East Asia Series II: A Compass in Hand, CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong

Ngan4+, Hong Kong Visual Art Center, Hong Kong

2021 Gathering of Consciousness, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery, Hong Kong

The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Geibun-kan, Fukuoka, Japan

ngan4 – Sculpture Exhibition, Pat Heung Farm, Hong Kong

2021 Dear Babies, House by Kubrick, Hong Kong

Farmland Eco-art Exhibition, Times Square, 1a space, Hong Kong

2020 XX, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

Big wind blows, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong

2019 In Search of Coast Line, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong

2018 Ring Ring Belt, Public Art Project, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul, Korea

Gwangju International Art Fair 2018, KDJ Convention Center, Korea

Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

Zoo as Metaphor (2), orleanlaiproject, New Vision Arts Festival, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences

2017 Deep Silence, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Ensemble, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 As the Leaves Fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Project, 1a space, Hong Kong

Decongestion of West Kowloonization – Soil. Play, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong

SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016, Nagano, Japan

Book Shop, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong

2015 Fine Art Asia 2015, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Fresh Trend 2015, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall

An Aeroplane – Kowloon City Community Art Project, Kowloon City, Hong Kong

A/AN “ ”, BA Graduation Show, RMIT / Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries

She has a gloomy dream / His silent disorder, Carol Lee Studio, Hong Kong

2014 First Smash 2, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong

2013  Island—Story. Life. Landscape., HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

BOING! Pop-up Art Market, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong

The 15543rd Same Exhibition, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

2008 Before Sleep, Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong