she/they b. 1989/1828/1839/2698 B.C. Hong Kong <-> Glasgow <-> Liverpool
2015 - Present Independent Curator and Cultural Organiser, Hong Kong <-> Glasgow <-> Liverpool
Jan - Sep 2025 Researcher, Centre for Supply Chain Research, University of Liverpool, UK
2021 - 2024 Co-Founder of Liverpool East & South East Asian Network, Liverpool, UK
2021 - 2023 Guest Curator at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2018 - 2020 Co-Director at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2016 The Master of Letters (M.Litt) in Fine Art Practice (Sculpture), The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2013 The Bachelor of Arts (BA) with Honours (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Upcoming
2026
Live Performance, Stand-up Comedy: Tinder 奇遇記之 daddy issues / The Adventure of Dating apps: whoops! daddy issues, Bang Bang Studio, HK
Curated Exhibitions
2025
Curatorial Commission for Calis Leung Solo Exhibition: Resilience Practice of Half-Bodies / 梁程萬個人展覽 《半邊身體和半邊身體韌性練習》 , POINTSMAN Art Space, HK
2021-2023
Curatorial Commission: breathe, spirit and life 《呼吸、靈魂與生命》, featuring Roo Dhissou, Emii Alrai, Thulani Rachia, Soojin Chang, Sulaïman Majali, and Kiara Mohamed Amin, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2021
Across the City Program Curatorial Commission: These stories (Sekai Machache: The Divine Sky & Thulani Rachia: ...Wathint’ Imbokodo), Heritage Centre at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow International Festival 2021, Glasgow, UK
2019
HEAVY DUTY: Annual Members’ Show 2019 Edition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
RE: Respite, Ain Bailey, Alicia Mersy, Lydia Ourahmane, La Nietas De Nonó & Jasmine Brown-Rasé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
With loving resistance, Yon Afro Collective, Ubuntu Women’s Shelter, RCS People of Colour Collective, GSA People of Colour Collection, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2018
Untouchable Gypsy Witch, Delaine Le Bas, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
COCO!NUTS!, Rabiya Choudhry, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Plenary, iQhiya, Glasgow International 2018, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2017
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Ignore The Radiators, Glasgow Open House Festival, Venue #67, Glasgow, UK
if it’s true, tell it to me. (one-day pop-up exhibition & workshop), House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK
Performances, Podcasts, Talks and Conferences
2025
Facilitator for Artists in Conversation | Calis Leung x Dr. Ho Siu Kee: The Interventions of Bodies and Sculptures, POINTSMAN Art Space, HK
Guest Speaker for The 18th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Institut Français de Pékin, Beijing, China
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, The 18th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Institut Français de Pékin, Beijing, China
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Artists’ Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025, York, UK
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, The 18th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Institut Français de Pékin, Beijing, China
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Artists’ Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025, York, UK
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Les Premières Gouttes du Ciel 《滴星》, Non-place Contemporary Art Museum 不在場美術館, Luoyang, China
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Glasgow 850, Project Ability, Glasgow, UK
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Queer East Festival 2025, Rio Cinema, London, UK
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Adelaide, AU
2024
Performer for Wah Yen 華苑餐館 by Wei Zhang, Glasgow International Festival 2024, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK
2023
Guest Speaker for ESEA Artists' Futures Town Hall, Sheffield, UK
Guest Speaker for ESEA Artists’ Futures Roundtable Event, Scotland: CARE, Glasgow, UK
Performer for QueenswaY x Haus Of Chan: Kinky Queer Icons, Q U A RR Y, Liverpool, UK
Podcast Host for Welcoming the year of the Dragon, auntie k & mui mui Em from Liverpool East & South East Asian Network, HàNội Community Radio, HàNội, Vietnam
Podcast Host for Melodic Distraction Take-Over w/ auntie k & mui mui Em, HàNội Community Radio, HàNội, Vietnam
Guest Speaker for Table Talk at Sheba Art Festival: Decolonising Cultural Institutions, Manchester, UK
Performer at House of Suarez Presents the Royalty Ball 2023: Haus of Chan at the Realness Category, The Eurovision Village, Liverpool, UK 2022 Podcast Host for Morning Radio Show with Liverpool ESEA Network, Melodic Distraction UK, Liverpool, UK
Performer at House of Suarez Presents the Disco Ball 2022: Haus of Chan at the Six Siren Solo Category, Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, UK
Guest Speaker for Roundtable event with Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator of 2023 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Performer at 26 May: awkward silence, stand-up comedy, The Bluecoat, UK 2019
Guest Speaker for Reorganising cultural organisations, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Guest Speaker for Catalyst 25 Year Symposium, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK
2024
Host for Zoom Q&A for breathe, spirit and life 《呼吸、靈魂與生命》, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2019
Facilitator for In Conversation with Jasmine Brown-Rosé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Curated and Facilitated Public Programmes
2024
Workshop Facilitator, Red Envelope Treasure Hunt Workshop in collaboration with Dan Chan, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Workshop Facilitator, Eurovision 2023, *dumplingvision*: a dumpling-making workshop, Liverpool, UK
Workshop Facilitator, Reading Group: for generation(s) that are yet to be born, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK 2021
Co-curator, Bothy Project’s collaboration with Transmission Gallery involved artists Najma Abukar, Adebusola Ramsay, Clarinda Tse and Matthew Arthur Williams, Scotland, UK
2020
Workshop Facilitator, auntie k: photo-psychic-reading session, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2019
Workshop Facilitator, Chinese Calligraphy Workshop, Wellbeing Festival, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
Workshop Facilitator, Reading Group: for daughter(s) that are yet to be born, Ricefield Library, Glasgow, UK
Awards
2025
Emerging Artists Development Grant from Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK
2022
Arts Grant, Foyle Foundation, UK
2021
Museum and Galleries Grant, John Ellerman Foundation, London, UK
Selected for the Exhibition Publication Grant, Paul Mellon Centre, London, UK
2020
Visual Arts Grant, Hope Scott Trust, Scotland, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Satellites Programme Solo Commission: neither the West nor the East can be a determinate location, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Publications and Press
2023
Absolute Truth? Interview by Harvey Dimond, The Skinny February 2023 Issue, Glasgow, UK
Bunker Talks - Talk #115 Emii Alrai, Manchester School of Art, 26 January 2023, Manchester, UK
2022
Review Katie Shirley: breathe, spirit and life 《呼吸、靈魂與生命》, Corridor8, 14 December 2022, Liverpool, UK
The Year in Review: Frieze Editors on Art in 2022 In Opinion, Roundtables by Marko Gluhaich, Vanessa Peterson and Terence Trouillot, 15 December 2022, London, UK
2020
In Conversation with Sekai, The List February 2020 Issue, Glasgow, UK
2018
Transmission Gallery: The Phone is the Keyhole; The Penpot, The Heart, Publication by Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Adam Benmakhlouf, Thulani Rachia, Alaya Ang and Myriam Mouflih, Ruine München, 14 September 2018, Munich, Germany
2017
Skin Deep Issue 6: The Spectacle, London, UK
Residency
2022
Self-directed Residency at Harvest Pottery, HK
2021
Visual Art Residency 2021, Cove Park, Helensburgh, UK
2020
Creative Lab Residency Program 2020/21, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Teaching
2022
Guest Lecturer at BAFA (Ceramics), Hong Kong Art School, HK
2016
Guest Lecturer, Untitled: Titling Workshop for 2nd Year students in Sculpture & Environment Art, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Vibration lets me know you are there, emotional justice: Air Vibrating with Friendship and Laughter, Online Radio Series, Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2019
Another Country, Alice. R Rogers Gallery & Target Gallery, St John's Art Centre, Minnesota, U.S. + Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh, U.K. + Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, UK
2018 Wish Fulfilment, Sine Projects, Brooklyn, New York, US In Residence, 16 Nicholson Street Gallery & Art Collective, Glasgow, UK Radio Space, Borealis - en festival for eksperimentell musikk, Bergan, Norway
2017
Fields of Wheat, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
If it's true, tell it to me. House for An Art Lover, Glasgow, UK
Ignore the Radiator, Glasgow Open House Art Festival, Glasgow, UK