Man Mei-To

 

Man Mei-To was born in Hong Kong in 1990. 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. She currently lives and works in London and Hong Kong. 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.

 

Man Mei-To

 

1990 Born in Hong Kong

2017 BA, Fine Arts-Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

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

Currently lives and works in London and Hong Kong

 

Sole Exhibition

• Leaking Frontier, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai

2025 Footnotes to Lingering, Pointsman, Hong Kong

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 Exhibition

2025 Collect Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

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

2024 Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen

2024 Hazy Horizons, The NOHO Galleries, London

2024 Residency Competition 2025, The Muse Gallery, London

2024 The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Farringdon, London

2024 Drawer inside the barlines, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

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

2024 The Nomenclature of Colours III, Online exhibition, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, Slade School of Fine Art, London

2024 JCCAC Art Basel Parallel Exhibition – A Preface to Magnificence,JCCAC L1 Gallery, Hong Kong

2024 The Dazzling Edge of Darkness: 1 Day Sculpture Park, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London

2024 How to Play Hopscotch?, Koppel Collective, London

2024 Bird of Shape, Tangent Projects, Barcelona

2024 Interlude, Lewisham Arthouse, London

2024 Tokens of Remembrance, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki

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

2023 The Collectible Art Fair, Jockey Club Atrium & Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong The Collectible Art Fair

2023 Tiger A(r)m Strong Biennale – The Tailed Scar, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong

2023 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

2022 Spinning East Asia Series II: A Compass in Hand, CHAT( Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) by MILL6 Foundation, Hong Kong

2022 Ngan4+, Hong Kong Visual Art Center, Hong Kong

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

2021 The29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Geibun-kan,Fukuoka, Japan

2021 ngan4- Sculpture exhibition, Pat Heung Farm, Yuen Long, Hong Kong

2021 Dear Babies, House by Kubrick, Hong Kong

2021 Farmland Eco-art Exhibition, Times Square,1a space, Hong Kong

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

2020 The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

2020 Big wind blows, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong 大風吹, Rossi & Rossi, 香港

2019 In Search of Coast Line – Art parade Education Project  2018 – 2019, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong

2018 2018 Public art: Ring Ring Belt, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul

2018 Gwangju International Art Fair 2018, KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju

2018 Social Transformations, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2018 Zoo as Metaphor (2), orleanlaiproject, New Vision Arts Festival 2018, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong

2017 Deep Silence, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2017 Ensemble, VT Art Salon, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 As the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Project, 1a space, Hong Kong

2016 Decongestion of West Kowloonization – Soil. Play, C&G Artpartment, Nullah Road, Sitting-out area, Prince Edward, Hong Kong

2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016,The Land’s telling stories  | The storyteller of the Water, Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee, Nagano, Japan

2016 Book Shop, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong

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

2015 Fresh Trend 2015 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Central, Hong Kong

2015 An Aeroplane community art exhibition on stories of Kowloon City, ‘’Write me a letter when you arrive…’’, Kowloon City Street,Hong Kong

2015 A/AN “ “, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduation Show 2015, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2015 She has a gloomy dream / His silent disorder, Carol Lee Studio, Chai Wai Mei, Hong Kong

2014 “First Smash 2” Art Project Group Show, Art Experience Foundation, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong

2013 Island– Story. Life. Landscape. Mixed Media Exhibition, Literature+ Video+ Photography+ Visual Arts, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong

2013 BOING! – pop-up art market, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong

 

2013 The 15543rd same exhibition, Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong

2008 Before sleep (School photography group exhibition), Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong

 

 

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2021 Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

2020 Ho Sheung Heung,Sheung Shui, Hong Kong Farmland, Ecological Conservation of Farmland and Education Project, Hong Kong

2016 SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival 2016,The Land’s telling stories | The storyteller of the Water, Primitive Sense Art Festival executive committee,  Nagano