Imprints of Time is more than an exhibition—it is a living dialogue that transcends time, dissolving the boundaries between past and future to weave Hong Kong’s collective memory into an unfolding, flowing narrative. Featuring ten artists spanning from the post-80s generation to Gen-Z, this show explores the intimate resonance between personal identity and the city’s soul. Their works rise beyond individual expression to form a rich cultural polyphony—layered histories, constant reinventions, and the resilient core of selfhood amidst relentless change.

In this ever-shifting metropolis, transformation itself becomes the central theme. Each artwork acts as a temporal amber—preserving vanished moments and crystallizing fragile poetry that lingers before dissolution. Through varied media—drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation—the artists decode Hong Kong’s cultural alchemy, translating its hybrid heritage into a vivid visual poetry.

Ling Wai Shan’s meditative canvases pause the urban clamor, creating serene breathing spaces on each frame; Kwong Man Chun reinterprets cityscapes through classical East Asian aesthetics, bridging centuries-old brushwork with the steel lattice of contemporary skylines. The dialogue between Chow Chun Fai’s vanishing street corners and Lewis Lee’s cross-border urban reflections echoes the tension between preservation and innovation, whispering of nature’s subtle reclamation. Angela Yuen’s radiant light installations capture the city’s fleeting iridescence, while Kila Cheung’s bold sculptures joyfully defy artistic conventions. Diasporic voices emerge in Peter Hong-Tsun Chan and Jade Ching-yuk Ng’s surreal homages, shaped by transatlantic longing; Tam Kwan Yuen reflects the city through a warm lens of Singaporean cultural intimacy. Pak Sheung Chuen’s conceptual works choreograph serendipitous encounters with time itself, transforming everyday moments into cosmic theaters. His oeuvre tenderly excavates memory’s strata, revealing invisible tensions between concrete and sky, steel and soil.

To wander through Imprints of Time is to traverse a palimpsest of eras—a layered manuscript where images echo across decades. The exhibition composes a multi-voiced symphony, harmonizing Hong Kong’s past, present, and future. From hushed brushstrokes to pulsating installations, these works unravel the metaphysics of place—exploring how time sculpts identity and space nurtures belonging.

Each artwork functions as a cultural prism, reflecting not only the city’s transformations but inviting viewers to inscribe their own stories onto Hong Kong’s evolving canvas. These imprints are more than records; they are participatory rituals, urging us to trace the grooves of time with our fingertips and discover, amid constant flux, something enduringly our own.

Venue
2003-2008, 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

Artist
Peter Hong-Tsun Chan, Kila Cheung, Chow Chun Fai, Kwong Man Chun, Lewis Lee, Ling Wai Shan, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Pak Sheung Chuen, Tam Kwan Yuen, Angela Yuen

Exhibition Dates
16 August – 23 September, 2025

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday | 11 AM – 7 PM

Website
https://www.tangcontemporary.com

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tangcontemporaryart/

Contact
info@tangcontemporary.com.hk 

About Artists

Peter Hong-Tsun Chan
b. 1985, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada

Peter Hong-Tsun Chan received his BAA from Sheridan College Institute of Technology in Toronto, Canada.

Chan’s current practice is centred on the dissection of the probabilistic concept of chance in both social and visual culture. Defined as operating outside the purview of oneself, chance and its many manifestations such as accident and luck, when incorporated into artistic processes, speak directly to questions of aesthetic and social philosophy. Through his newest work, Chan explores anew the concept of chance within the larger framework of socioculturalism.

His recent exhibitions include Opening Sequence, Long Story Short, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Teach Me How to Fish, Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong (2024); Crescent Heights, Harper’s, Los Angeles (2024); Threshold, New Image Art, Los Angeles (2024); Focal Point 2, Long Story Short, New York (2023).

Kila Cheung
b. 1986, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Kila Cheung graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a full-time artist specialized in painting and sculpture. Kila values childishness, curiosity, and the courage to break rules and dreams.

In 2016, he received the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award. In 2017, he took up an internship in Japan and started his creating with wooden sculptures. In 2018, he travelled to Taiwan for an artist residency in Taipei.

His first solo exhibition, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Guy” (2018) was held in Gallery by the Harbour, Hong Kong. “Teens in Sunroom” (2019), his second solo exhibition, was held in The Little Hut Gallery, Taipei. Kila was the planner for the book “Art Toy Story” (2018). In 2020, his solo exhibition “Moving Utopia” was held in Dot Dot Dot Gallery, Hong Kong. In 2021, his works were exhibited in N’s YARD, Japan and his solo exhibition “Best Before” was held in JPS Gallery, Tokyo. In 2022, he had a solo exhibition “Oh! My Young God” in INVINCIBLE SP, an art space in Taipei. In 2023, his first solo exhibition in Europe “Peace of Freedom” was held in Ojiri Gallery, London. His solo exhibition “AS LIGHT AS COPPER, AS HEAVY AS PAPER” was held in Quiet Gallery, Tokyo. He exhibited a 6-meter-high sculpture “Home No.9 Taste of The Lost Memory Home” and an installation of 100 warning lights “Twinkle Twinkle Little Square” at Tsuen Wan Town Hall Plaza. Also, held a solo exhibition “Still” at Gallery by the Harbour, along with showcasing a 4-meter-high installation “Twinkle Twinkle Little Giant—Little Jizo” near Victoria Harbour. In 2024, he held a dual exhibition “Home” with Japanese artist Moe Nakamura at GALLERY TSUBAKI in Tokyo and his first solo exhibition in the United States “Little Fires Everyone” at GR gallery in New York. In 2025, his solo exhibition “In The Old Home” was held in otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE, Hong Kong.

Chow Chun Fai
b. 1980, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Chow Chun Fai graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Fine Arts (BA and MFA). In 2012 he ran in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency. Most recently his work has been featured in the following exhibitions: “Chow Chun Fai Solo Exhibition: Map of Amnesia”(Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, 2024); “Chow Chun Fai Solo Exhibition: Interview the Interviewer” (SC Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023); “Chow Chun Fai & Stephen Wong Chun Hei Duo Exhibition – A Mirage of a Shining City” (Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, 2023); “Portrait From Behind” (Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, 2020); “Chow Chun Fai” (Eli Klein Gallery, New York, 2018); “Everything Comes With an Expiry Date” (Klein Sun Gallery, New York, 2016); “Venice Meeting Point” (Venice Biennale, 2015); “Hong Kong Eye” (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2012), the “Liverpool Biennial” (Liverpool, 2012).

Chow is the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Awards, and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.

Kwong Man Chun
b. 1989, Hunan Province, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Distilling Kwong Man Chun’s studies of China Southern Culture and Chinese notions of void and emptiness, Kwong Man Chun found his own singular vehicle through which to pronounce his own worldview: that of the lake that is pure and reflected. Through perspective, environment, mirroring and weathering, he diligently examines a metaphysical, human sense of being. In “Huang Cen Ling and Tenemen House”, existing within Kwong Man Chun’s aesthetics and thinking, the perspective of Chinese Genre Painting and brings them together with splash ink and colour. Attempt to deconstruct the texture and elegance of water, stones, flowers, furniture. a fantasy volume composed of scenery and shapes his presentation: the previous generation established what they thought of eternity for us. Kwong holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University. He has participated in exhibitions in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia and USA since 2013.

Lee Kam Ching, Lewis
b. 1998, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Lee Kam Ching, Lewis graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023, majored in fine arts. He grew up between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. He then uses landscape painting to express his personal experiences of his family and his ancestry.Through his work, he responds to the scars left by previous generations, exploring identity and constructing his own worldview in a playful yet surreal manner. His past works have encompassed painting, photography, installation and artificial landscape. His works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Mainland, Taiwan and Japan before.

Ling Wai Shan, Heidi
b. 2001, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Ling Wai Shan, Heidi graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2023. She focuses on contemporary social issues, exploring complex relationships between humans, nature, culture, and interactions between the body and the city. She uses symbolism and metaphor to express thoughts and emotions on these topics. Her artwork is rich in poetic and subtle expressions, utilising symbolic meanings to convey emotions and provide insights into contemporary social issues. By transforming symbols and combining objects, viewers are prompted to interpret and imagine. The artwork through meticulous color and brushwork, revealing the relationship between space, light, and objects, employs the use of transparency to explore the relationship between the visible and the invisible, while contemplating the connection between the truth of things and their appearances.

She held her solo exhibition “The Moon Wanes As It Waxes” at Touch Gallery in 2024. Her group exhibitions include “The Weight of Stillness,” Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong (China, 2024); “Patients Not Eligible for Sick Leave,” Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China, 2024); “Virtual Scenery,” a.m. space, Hong Kong (China, 2024); “Evergreen,” Odds and Ends, Hong Kong (China, 2024); “Being Something,” Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong (China, 2023); “The Blossoms in the Flowerless,” Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong (China, 2023); “and still they move,” AVA BA Grad Show 2023, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China, 2023); “Sorry, I want to leave the archipelago,” Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong (China, 2023).

Jade Ching-Yuk Ng
b. 1992, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in London, UK

Jade Ching-Yuk Ng exemplifies life experience as the main material, combined with different symbolic visual vocabularies, so as to find the gap between reality and virtuality. She has worked on various mediums to challenge the possibilities of creating paintings beyond paints. She depicts the fragility of a physical intimate relationship between herself and others. She is drawn to the sensibility of constant touches and separation among us. By reinterpreting traditional forms of symbolism, her work creates a new, ambiguous and obscure fiction. Ng’s work craves attention of our loneliness, intimacy and emptiness in today’s hyper-realistic world.

Her soft, intricate works emboss the fragility of a physical intimate relationship between herself and others. Jade is interested in quoting the essence of touch and separation at a moment in time to depict a notion of loneliness, intimacy and emptiness. By exploring the possibilities of forms in painting, Jade conceives of her paintings as an assembly of her and others’ body puzzles. Often revolving around personal travel experience, classical myth, alchemy, religious rituals and anatomy as references, Jade deconstructs their symbolism by attaching her own interpretation, and her symbols seem to depart from their literal connotations into an obscure and ambiguous fiction. The agency of framing becomes a gesture of embracing, defining actual and pictorial surrealistic space. The essence of modernist architecture influences how she constructs and adds odds to her composition in the picture. She develops them into printmaking, painting, sculptural painting and the most recent cut-outs and wood reliefs. Its theatricality encourages visitors to consider characters that are depicted in dialogue with themselves, whilst also considering the fine edge of collision in reality and imagination.

Ng obtained her BA at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 and MA at Royal College of Art in 2018. She is a recipient of Cass Art Painting Prize in 2016 and Travers Smith Art Award in 2018. She was awarded the Abbey Major Painting Scholarship by the British School at Rome in 2018. Her work was commented on and published by art historians Katy Hessel and Kate Mothes respectively. She worked at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2014. Her work has exhibited internationally, such as Arusha Gallery (London; Edinburgh, UK), Matt’s Gallery (London, UK), San Mei Gallery (London, UK), Cornucopia Gallery (London, UK), Whitechapel 46 (London, UK), Siegfried Contemporary (London, UK), Assembly Point (London, UK), Horse Hospital (London, UK), CGP Gallery (London, UK), Canal Mills Armley (Leeds, UK), Video Pub (Jerusalem, Israel), Academia di Romania a Roma (Rome, Italy) . Part of her work has been collected by Penguin Random House.

Her solo exhibitions include “Echo of Silhouettes,” Tang Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2024); Comfort in Discomfort,” Ronchini (London, 2023); “GUSH,” Tang Contemporary Art (Hong Kong, 2022); “It’s (kind of) a love story,” Natasha Arselan (London, 2022); “I is another,” Cornucopia Gallery (London, 2021)

Pak Sheung Chuen
b. 1977, Fujian, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong

Pak Sheung Cheun’s works primarily focus on conceptual art and painting. He excels at incorporating everyday life situations into his creations, sparking contemplation about current circumstances. He has been a columnist for the Sunday edition of Ming Pao newspaper since 2003. Pak has authored books such as ODD ONE IN: Hong Kong Diary, ODD ONE IN II: Invisible Travel and Nightmare Wallpaper.

He has represented Hong Kong in various significant international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2009), Liverpool Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, and Taipei Biennial. In 2011, he was selected as one of the five outstanding artists in the Asia-Pacific region by AAP art magazine and has been featured on the covers of LEAP and Contemporary Art and Investment magazines. He is acclaimed as one of the twelve important Chinese artists. In 2012, Pak received the HKADC Best Artist Award, the China Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) Best Artist Award, and the Best Booth Award at Frieze London. His works are held in collections at institutions such as M+, Tate Modern, and the New York Public Library. In recent years, he has been involved in teaching and has served as a resident artist and lecturer at institutions like York University in Toronto and Tokyo University of the Arts. He delivers art lectures annually at various colleges and universities. From 2023-2024, he hold the position of Assistant Professor at Tainan National University of the Arts. From 2019 to 2022, he served as the art consultant for the Jockey Club BGCA “Arts make SENse” programme. Later, he co-founded the HASS Lab team with Cherry Chan, engaging in art interventions in the community, social welfare services, and education.

Tam Kwan Yuen
b. 1986, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Singapore

Tam Kwan Yuen’s works have been regularly selected into international juried shows and have won several awards. In April 2016, his painting, “Good Morning, NYC!” has won the JAN GARY and WILLIAM D. GORMAN MEMORIAL AWARD in the prestigious 149th Annual International Exhibition of American Watercolor Society (AWS). In 2020, he is the third Singaporean to be conferred Signature Membership in the AWS. His works have been featured in art publications, including the 17th Issue of the Art of Watercolor Magazine and selected as Winner in North Light Books’ Splash 18: Value | Light + Dark Issue edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf. He has also been recently awarded the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award by his alma mater, Nanyang Technological University, for his outstanding achievements in art.

Tam has been active in both the local and international art scene. In January 2025, he participated in ART SG, Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair held in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. His work, Evening View from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, was exhibited at the fair. He currently paints scenes both locally and abroad, with a modern approach to his painting technique. He is represented by Artcommune Gallery in Singapore.

Angela Yuen
b. 1991, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China

Angela Yuen graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014. She went to Linfield College in the U.S. for an exchange program in 2013 to develop her installation art and received the Dean’s List Honours. In 2016, she had her artist in residency at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. In 2019, she had her artist in residency at HART Haus, Hong Kong.

About Gallery

Tang Contemporary Art was founded in Bangkok in 1997 with the entirety of supporting artists with creative and critical art projects. Over the last 27 years, curated exhibitions were based on promoting contemporary art in favor of a more sustainable and solidary ground for art creation and collective learning with the aim to foster more dynamic trans-cultural relationships between the Asian and the International art scenes. Tang Contemporary Art also tailors art projectors for patrons and collectors to engage with art in their respective eco-system.

Tang Contemporary Art has recently added an 8th gallery space in the vibrating city of Singapore, alongside Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Seoul, coupled with active participation in annual art fairs like Art Basel Hong Kong, KIAF, Frieze New York, Expo Chicago, The Armory Show, Art Geneve, Taipei Dangdai, Art SG and Masterpiece London.

Acting as one of the most progressive galleries in Asia, Tang Contemporary Art represents both the internationally renowned and the emerging. With an unparalleled contribution to the Asian and Chinese contemporary arts and its inclusion in the global art scenes, Tang Contemporary Art aims to create the best conditions for initiating dialogues between artists, curators, collectors, and institutions, as well as for nurturing new methodologies of making of contemporary art histories, promoting emerging young artists, and providing a platform for arts and cultural exchange both locally and internationally.

(Text and images courtesy of Tang Contemporary Art)