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Post-Blossom

Howdy partners,
Just wanted to provide a quick round-up of 2022 goings on.

The exhibition catalogue for From swelling shadows, we draw our bows at the Power Plant is out and available here

I have work in the group exhibition The world is just so small, now at the Ringling Museum.

My solo exhibition A Prologue to Entombment just wrapped at Patel Brown
and a new set of limited edition silkscreens will soon be available through the gallery.

Retainers of Anarchy exhibition coming to the Art Gallery of Windsor soon!

A new media work is being presented in the Hanart TZ booth at Art Basel HK.

New batch of works brewing for an upcoming presentation at the Patel Brown booth at Armory Show NYC.
It’ll be a 2-person booth with my hero Shary Boyle…aaaaand we might have some collabo mindmelds to share.

Retainers of Anarchy will have its Australian debut as part of the Outlaws at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in December.
The exhibition marks the grand opening of AGNSW’s brand new Sydney Modern space.

Retainers of Anarchy @ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Looping around and back.

INK CITY @ Tai Kwun Contemporary (HK)

What can be said. Wish I could be there.

Stories that Animate Us @ The Vancouver Art Gallery

Thankful to be included in this exhibition along with so many amazing artists and the opportunity to work with the gallery’s superb prep team.
I was invited to exercise my installation tendons and exorcise the demons that haunt us.

Howie Tsui installing his work, Spectral Residue, 2021, in Stories that animate us, exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, February 20, 2021 to September 6, 2021, Photo: Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery

Nourishing Takes

Just catching a breather to cobble up a batch of alimentative reads from my recent show at the Power Plant (which has been extended through summer 2021).

Thanks to Kate Taylor for including Parallax Chambers in the TOP 10 of 2020.
and for the thoughtful review of From swelling shadows, we draw our bows.
Belinda Kwn rooted around, flexed, and uncovered Easter eggs in her Asia Art Pacific piece.
And Charlene K. Lau shared was on an impressionistic tip for ARTFORUM

Some other joints coming down the pipe including an exhibition catalogue published by the Power Plant.

Gif Roulette @ Reel Asian International Film Festival

As part of Reel Asian International Film Festival’s Artist Spotlight program, I cooked up a buffet of spicy and numbing gifs from film and tv. Recent explorations in media work has nudged my practice further into the fields of visual sampling, loop construction and image saturation. This project is a playful (and addictive) way to apply these meme-y tools to explore memory fragmentation/excavation. See the project here.

Parallax Chambers - Halloween Livestream

Given our bubbly lifestyles and collectively straight-jacketed potatoes,
this hallowe’en we thought fitting to share a livestream of Parallax Chambers
- an unrelenting cycle of punishing animations
churning outwards indiscriminately from the CPU brain into the ether.
Relish in scenes of restraint and cartoonish suffering in the horizontal comfort of your abode
or drive-thru or barn.

Facebook Live: https://fb.me/e/3D2wWYPuD
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/y46av4b6
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dedxterboney

This will be a 3-hour program involving a livestream of the work.
Tune in/out anytime.
PST: 8 pm - 11 pm EST: 11 pm - 1 am HKT: 11 am - 1 pm

By conflating the anarchic universe in martial arts fiction with current socio-political turmoil, Parallax Chambers wrestles with the creeping suppression of voice and thought. The spectre of geopolitical surveillance further agitates my practice that has long demonstrated a compulsion towards confronting superstition, paranoia and inherited traumas.

The constant, live-rendered output of this work churns out an elastic sequence of animations. By ceding the narrative agency to the algorithm, Parallax Chambers raises formal questions about order, and whether harmony can emerge from seeming chaos.

The piece cycles relentlessly through a series of confined rooms – recalling claustrophobic urban space and hermetic chambers depicted in martial arts fiction for internal training and meditation. This motif of fragmented loops within bound environments has gained new resonance amid recent global conditions of isolation.

single-channel algorithmic animation sequence
2018 - ongoing

Programming, Sound Design & Music: Remy Siu
Animation: Anna Firth, Chhaya Naran, Kodai Yanagawa and Roxanne Zagar
Additional Sound Design: Paul Paroczai

"From swelling shadows...we draw our bows" at The Power Plant

Plenty amped for my upcoming exhibition From swelling shadows, we draw our bows at The Power Plant in Toronto. Hope to safely see some old friends back in the 6.

GHOSTS, MEMORIES, AND FUTURE NOSTALGIA

In Conversation with Howie Tsui and Hana Amani in Newest Magazine.

Patel Brown team-up

So pleased to announce that I’ll be joining Patel Brown Gallery and their roster of diverse (non-token) and amazingly fire artists. For 18 years, I’ve been unapologetically producing culturally explicit/honest work to the confusion/chagrin of gatekeepers who’ve perpetuated a mono-cultural art language. It’s heartening and energizing to be part of this deep-flavour food court! #timbitsaintshit

Check out the inaugural exhibitions at the beautiful new space and accompanying essays.

Photo: Laura Findlay

'Retainers of Anarchy' US debut at the Ringling Museum

So very excited to be bringing Retainers to the Ringling Museum as part of a tour organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Show runs from Mar 15, 2020 – Nov 29, 2020.

Parallax Chambers 2.0 @ Burrard Arts Foundation

After 3-months at the Burrard Arts Foundation’s residency program, I am thrilled to open the next iteration of my Parallax Chambers project.

Much thanks to Remy Siu, Wade Thomas, Roxanne Zagar, Kodai Yanagawa, Chhaya Naran, Anna Firth, and Paul Paroczai.

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for the generous support.

Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body by Phaidon

My work Musketball! is included in Phaidon’s comprehensive survey of anatomical art entitled Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body. Plenty o’ fantastic images of our insides in art and science throughout time.

"An astonishing range of medical illustrations, ancient artifacts, contemporary art and microscopic views form around the world... The kaleidoscopic volume inspires genuine awe."—The New York Times Book Review

Asia Now 2019 (Paris)

Thanks to Galerie LJ for showcasing my work at the Asia Now Paris Asian Art Fair.
Got classic kids and new seeds on view from October 16 - 20.

Façade Festival 2019

Excited to be projection mapping a reassembled media piece on the façade of the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of Burrard Art Foundation’s 2019 Façade Festival program.
Sept 8 - 14, 2019

Some documentation stills from the program.

Globe & Mail review of Retainers of Anarchy at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

Parallax Chambers at Galerie LJ (Paris)

Very happy to lean into 2019 with two new works on paper debuting at Galerie LJ in Paris.

Art Book & Hand Scroll Set (Limited Edition)

Very thankful/amped (ampful?) to share a beaut of a limited edition box set produced by Art Labor Gallery.

Set includes:

a book (cloth bound, lenticular cover, open-chest binding) with an essay by Karen Smith (Director, OCAT Museum Xi’an), a wide-ranging conversation between myself and Anna Holmwood (official English translator of Jin Yong’s Legend of the Condor Heroes), a Retainers of Anarchy character glossary, with a contribution from photographer Greg Girard and images on various types of kooky papers.

a Retainers of Anarchy handscroll printed on ricepaper and mounted on silk.

For more information and inquires, please contact Art Labor Gallery: info@artlaborgallery.com

Special Thanks goes out to Art Labor Gallery, Government of Canada and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, Martin Kemble, Shasha Lui, Madeleine Cater, Karen Smith, Anna Holmwood and Greg Girard.

Parallax Chambers @ Art Labor, Shanghai

Nov. 10, 2018 - Jan 8, 2019