Education
2002 Honors BA, Fine Arts: Studio Specialization, University of Waterloo
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The cradle rocks above an abyss, Hanart TZ, Hong Kong
2023 Retainers of Anarchy, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
2022 Retainers of Anarchy, Art Windsor - Essex
2022 A Prologue to Entombment, Patel Brown, Toronto
2021 Retainers of Anarchy, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
2020 From swelling shadows, we draw our bows, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (catalog)
2020 Retainers of Anarchy, The Ringling Museum of Art, USA
2020 Parallax Chambers, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver
2019 Retainers of Anarchy, Ottawa Art Gallery
2018 Retainers of Anarchy, OCAT Museum Xi'an, China
2018 Parallax Chambers, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai (catalogue)
2017 Retainers of Anarchy, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalog)
2013 Friendly Fire, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba
2013 Horror Fables, Le Gallery, Toronto
2013 Celestials of Gold Mountain, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver
2012 Radiant Specters, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
2012 Friendly Fire, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (catalogue)
2011 Celestials of Saltwater City, Centre A, Vancouver
2010 Horror Fables, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
2010 of Manga & Mongrels, Gallery Jones, Vancouver
2009 Horror Fables, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (catalogue)
2009 Horror Fables, Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg
2008 of Shunga & Monsters, Le Gallery, Toronto
2007 of Manga & Mongrels, G+ Gallery, Toronto
2006 of Manga & Mongrels, Gallery 101, Ottawa
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Assembly, Australian Centre on China and the World
2023 Statistics of Fortune: Macao International Art Biennale, Macao Museum of Art
2023 Mountains of the Mind, Ringling Museum of Art
2022 Outlaws, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (AUS)
2021 Stories that animate us, Vancouver Art Gallery
2021 「INK CITY」, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2019 Spring!, Galerie LJ, Paris
2019 Façade Festival, Vancouver Art Gallery and Burrard Arts Foundation
2018 Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery
2018 Diverse Voices from Vancouver, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2015 Bites Back, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai
2015 Anatomica, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
2015 越界/粵界 (transgression/cantosphere), Centre A
2015 Out of Line, Oakville Galleries
2014 Shine A Light: Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (catalogue)
2014 A Journal of the Plague Year - Islands Off the Shore of Asia, Para Site, Hong Kong
2014 Neo Folk, Ikkan Art International, Singapore
2014 Beside Yourself, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver
2013 You Cannot Kill What is Already Dead, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto
2013 A Clear Blazing Trail, Magic Pony Gallery, Toronto
2012 Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Musuem of San Francisco (catalogue)
2012 The Calendar’s Tales, 808 Gallery, Boston University School of Fine Arts
2012 Local Flora, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2010 Exploded View, Ottawa Art Gallery
2010 Monster, West Vancouver Museum
2010 Par Chemin, Yves Laroche Galerie d’art, Montreal
2009 Life Drawing, Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto
2008 Listen to your Heart, MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen
2007 The Pleasure, Jaime Torres Bodet Cultural Centre, Mexico City
2006 Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2006 I Am 8-Bit, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles
2005 Enjoy Relax Happy, Niagara Gallery, Toronto
2005 Then and Now, Gene Siskel Film Center of the Chicago Institute of Art
2003 Scatalogue: 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Public Collections
National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Vancouver Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
Ottawa Art Gallery
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
Canada Council Art Bank
City of Ottawa
Global Affairs Canada (Embassy of Canada, Beijing)
M+ (Hong Kong)
RBC Art Collection
Ringling Museum
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Awards
2018 Sobey Art Award Longlist
2012 RBC Emerging Artist Award
2010 Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award
2005 Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, Canada Council for the Arts
Grants
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2020 Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Originals
2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2019 British Columbia Arts Council, Professional Development Grant
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Long-Term Grants to Visual Artist
2014 BC Arts Council, Project Assistance to Visual Artists
2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistant to Visual Artists: Project Grants
2012 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistant to Visual Artists: Project Grants
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Emerging Grant
2011 City of Ottawa, Creation / Production Grant
2010 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2010 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2009 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistant to Visual Artists: Project Grants
2009 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Emerging Grant
2009 City of Ottawa, Creation / Production Grant
2007 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2007 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Emerging Grant
2007 City of Ottawa, Creation / Production Grant
2006 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2005 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistant to Visual Artists: Project Grants
2005 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2004 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Emerging Grant
2004 City of Ottawa, Creation / Production Grant
Residencies
2019 Burrard Arts Foundation
2014 Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
2011 Centre A International Centre for Asian Art, Vancouver
2009 Art City, Winnipeg
2008 Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-St-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC
2007 Islands Fold Artist Residency, Pender Island, BC
Performances
2020 Falling Leaves, PowerUp!, The Power Plant, Toronto
2013 Unfortunates of D’Arcy Island, Spatial Poetics XII: Release Me, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver
2011 Celestials of Saltwater City, Centre A, Vancouver
2011 Spectral Residue, Centre A, Vancouver
Screenings and Video Programs
2020 Gif Roulette, Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto
2013 Intersections, Cineworks, Vancouver
Monographs and Catalogues
Figure.1, In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice, Victoria, 2022. Authors: Haema Sivanesan and Lydia Kwa.
The Power Plant, Howie Tsui: From swelling shadows, we draw our bows, Toronto, 2020. Authors: Justine Kohleal, Su-Anne Yeo and Allison Collins,
Phaidon, Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body, London, 2019. Author: Thomas Schnalke.
Art Labor Gallery, Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy, Shanghai, 2018. Authors: Karen Smith & Anna Holmwood.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy, Vancouver, 2017. Authors: Alice Ming Wai Jim, Diana Freundl, Michelle Gewurtz, and Michelle Jacques.
National Gallery of Canada, Shine A Light: Canadian Bienniale 2014, Ottawa, 2014. Authors: Drouin-Brisebois, Hill, Kunard, Shaughnessy and Vogl.
Laurence King, The Book of Hearts, London, 2014. Author: Francesca Gavin.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Howie Tsui: Friendly Fire, Kingston, 2012. Authors: Jan Allen, Steven Loft & Paul Roberston.
Asian Art Musuem of San Francisco, Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, San Francisco, 2012. Authors: Mami Kataoka & Allison Harding.
Carleton University Art Gallery, Howie Tsui: Horror Fables, Ottawa, 2009. Authors: Emily Falvey & Sandra Dyck.
Islands Fold Publishing, Of Shunga & Monsters, Pender Island, 2008. Author: Luke Ramsay.
Selected Bibliography
2024 Brady Ng, “Feature: Howie Tsui,” Artomity, Spring 2024, P48 - 63.
2024 Enid Tsui, “Hong Kong-born artist inspired by wuxia martial arts novels creates intriguing works filled with visually lavish nightmares”, SCMP, Feb. 13.
2024 Hilary Chu, “Ways of Seeing”, Ming Po Daily, Feb. 04, P6.
2023 Victoria Hynes, “Channels of Resistance,” Look Magazine, Aug-Sept, 2023, P25 - 27.
2022 Anne Rutherford, “Retainers of Anarchy: Howie Tsui’s mesmerising installation at Sydney Modern,” Australian Book Review, Dec. 6.
2022 Dawn Chan, “Our Most Haunted Place,” November Magazine, Volume 2.
2022 Kalina Nedelcheva, “Howie Tsui, From swelling shadows, we draw our bows,” The Senses and Society, Volume 17, No.1, P145 - 148.
2021 Rhiannon Vogl, “Shading the Threshold: Howie Tsui’s Phantasmagoria,” Border Crossings, Volume 40, Number 1, Issue 156.
2021 Charlene K. Lau, “Howie Tsui: The Power Plant,” ARTFORUM, March Print Edition.
2021 Belinda Kwan, Howie Tsui’s “From Swelling Shadows We Draw Our Bows,” Art Asia Pacific, Jan 12.
2020 Kate Taylor, “The top 10 artworks of 2020,” The Globe and Mail, Dec. 10.
2020 Kate Taylor, “Two immersive video installations you need to see at Toronto’s Power Plant and the AGO,” The Globe and Mail, Nov. 10.
2020 Hana Amani, “Ghosts, Memories and Future Nostalgia: In Conversation with Howie Tsui”, Newest Magazine (Issue 1, Rupture).
2020 Sylvia Whitman, “Pop Culture to Power”, Sarasota Scene, (Feb).
2020 Elliat Albecht, “Howie Tsui: Parallax Chambers,” Artomity, May 20.
2020 Dorothy Woodend, “Howie Tsui’s Art Thrillingly Skewers Propaganda in New Art Show,” The Tyee, Jan 22.
2019 Kate Taylor, “Art Gallery of Ottawa’s summer slate delves into a discussion about technology and media, audience and viewership,” Globe & Mail, June 10.
2019 Nooshfar Afnan, “Howie Tsui: Parallax Chambers,” Artomity, (Winter, Issue 11).
2018 Christopher Dewolf, “Canadian Artist Howie Tsui Reimagines Hong Kong as a Ghoulish Hellscape,” Zolima City Mag, Oct. 23.
2018 Nicole Lee, "Pacific Crossings & Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy," Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, (Vol. 4, Issue 1-2, 2018), P213-216.
2018 Victoria Nolte, "Asian Canadian Minor Transnationalism: A Method of Comparison," Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, (Vol. 4, Issue 1-2, 2018), P65-88.
2017 David Balzer, “Howie Tsui’s Subversive, Epic New Work,” Canadian Art, April 18.
2017 Elliat Albrecht, "Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy," Artomity, (Summer, Issue 5).
2017 Kevin Griffin, "Retainers of Anarchy mashes up time up time and narrative to arrive at the present", Vancouver Sun, (7 April).
2017 Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, "Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy", Galleries West, (9 April).
2017 William Tham, "Terminus/Gateway Cities: Pacific Crossings and Retainers of Anarchy at the Vancouver Art Gallery", Ricepaper, (10 April).
2017 Nathaniel Ainley, "Traditional Chinese Scroll Painting Comes to Life in an Algorithmically Animated Projection", Vice, (12 April).
2015 Michael Baker, "Retainers of Anarchy: In Conversation with Howie Tsui", nomorepotlucks, (Nov/Dec, 2015).
2014 Doretta Lau, “Play List: Howie Tsui”, South China Morning Post, (May 11) P2.
2013 Christine Conley, “Howie Tsui”, Canadian Art (Winter 2013), 148.
2012 Erica Gomez & Vanessa Kauffman, “On the Cover: An Interview with Howie Tsui”, Eleven Eleven (Issue 15), P255.
2012 Peter Simpson, “Pinball Battlefield”, Ottawa Citizen (14 May), C5-C6.
2012 Jesse Hamlin, “Asian Art Museum's 'Phantoms of Asia' connects”, San Francisco Chronicle (13 May), P14.
2012 Andrew David King, “Ghosts in the Archive”, ZYZZYVA (26 June).
2011 Joni Low, “Evoking Past into Present: The Spectral Imagination of Howie Tsui”, Yishu (Nov/Dec 2011, Vol.10 No.6), 67 - 86.
2011 Robin Laurence, “Ghost Stories Find Scary Form”, Georgia Straight (16 - 23 June) 63.
2011 Kevin Griffin, “Howie Tsui: A Bestiary of Horror Stories”, Vancouver Sun (1 July).
2011 Jeff Hamada, “Howie Tsui / Interview”, Booooooom! (14 July).
2010 Petra Halkes, “Exploded View”, Border Crossings (Vol. 29, No. 3, Issue 115), 131-132.
2010 Aaron Boissonneault, “Horror Fables”, Paper Wait (Vol. 12 ) 34-41.
2010 Robin Laurence, “Monster: The Fear Inside”, Canadian Art (25 February).
2009 Robert Enright, “The Mongrel’s Progress: Howie Tsui”, Border Crossings (Vol. 28, No. 4, Issue 112), 16.
2009 Cindy Deachman, “Black Magic”, Ottawa Magazine (February/March), 47-48.
2009 Rupert Bottenberg, “Mulling over Manga”, Montreal Mirror (12-18 March), 45.
2009 Rosanne Barrett, “Long-distance call: Howie Tsui”, South China Morning Post, (13 Dec), 10.
2008 Leah Turner, “Artisan”. Color Magazine, (Autumn Issue, 6.4), 86.
2006 Paul Gessell, “A weird and wonderful collision of east and west”, Ottawa Citizen (14 September), E1.
Professional Activity
2022 Canada Council Art Bank Peer Assessment Committee (acquisitions)
2020 City of Ottawa, Acquisitions Committee
2017 External Examiner, MFA Thesis defence, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2014 Canada Council for the Arts Peer Assessment Committee (project grants)
2009 Canada Council Art Bank Peer Assessment Committee (acquisitions)
2008 City of Ottawa, Peer Assessment Committee (exhibitions)
2003-2008 Ottawa Art Gallery, Public Programs Assistant
2003-2005 Galerie SAW Gallery, Board of Trustees, Programming Committee Chair
Curatorial
2005 Off Grid, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2004 Opposition Party, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Writing
2014 “Frail Monuments,” Anders Oinonen: Eyebrow Haircut, The Hole (NYC) & Anteism Publishing
2004 “Soundtrack to Oblivion: Tim Hecker and Marla Hlady”, Artengine, Ottawa
Selected Symposiums, Talks and Workshops
2022 Illustrative Power of Popular Culture with Yumi Stynes, Nicola Scott, Emily Johnson, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2021 Visual Art Forum: Conversation with Joni Low, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
2020 Conversation with Greg Girard, “Hong Kong, Memories and Kowloon Walled City”, Power Plant, Toronto
2020 Artist Talk and Conversation with Rhiannon Vogl, “From swelling shadows…”, The Power Plant and OCAD
2020 Visiting Artist Program, University of Victoria
2020 Artist Talk, “Retainers of Anarchy”, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL
2020 In Conversation, “Kinaesthetics of Nature and Durational Sculpting”, Vancouver Art Gallery
2019 Artist Talk, “Inverted Prism”, Ottawa Art Gallery
2018 Artist Talk, “Inverted Prism”, OCAT Museum Xi’an, China
2017 Artist Talk, “Inverted Prism”, Vancouver Art Gallery
2014 In Conversation, Islands off the Shores of Asia, Para Site, Hong Kong
2014 Youth Workshop, “Auspicious Avatars”, Vancouver Art Gallery
2014 Artist Talk, “Nostalgic Art from a Hybrid Life”, University of British Columbia
2013 Walking Tour, “Salt Walk”, Access Gallery, Vancouver
2012 Artist Talk, “Derisive Amusements”, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
2011 Youth Workshop Instructor, “Stop Motion Animalia”, Ottawa Art Gallery
2010 Youth Workshop Instructor, “X-Ray Anatomy of Monsters”, MAI
2010 Artist Talk, “Nostalgic Art from a Hybrid Life”, Visual Culture Colloquium Series, Carleton University
2009 Symposium Speaker, “Comics, Japanese Pop Culture & Contemporary Art”, Concordia University
2009 Artist Talk, “Horror Fables”, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa) & AceArtInc (Winnipeg)
2008 Artist Talk, “Visiting Artist Program”, University of Ottawa
2007 Youth Workshop Instructor, “Noise Skronk Orkestar”, Ottawa Art Gallery
2006 Artist Talk, “Of Manga & Mongrels”, Gallery 101
2005 Panel Moderator, “Street Art: Alternatives to the Institutional System”, Ottawa Art Gallery
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