she/they
b. 1989/1828/1839/2698 B.C.
Hong Kong <-> Glasgow <-> Liverpool

Present
Researcher, Centre for Supply Chain Research, University of Liverpool, U.K.
2015 - Present
Independent Curator, Glasgow <-> Liverpool <-> Hong Kong
2021 - 2024
Co-Founder of Liverpool East & South East Asian Network, Liverpool, U.K.
2021 - 2023
Guest Curator at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2018 - 2020  
Co-Director at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2016  
The Master of Letters (M.Litt) in Fine Art Practice (Sculpture), The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.
2013   
The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art Sculpture (BA Hons), University of Brighton, Brighton, U.K.

Upcoming
2025
Dec | Curatorial Commission: 梁程萬 LEUNG, Ching Man Calis - 半邊身體和半邊身體韌性練習 Resilience Practice of Half-Bodies, POINTSMAN Space, H.K.
5-9 Nov | Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Artists’ Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025, York, U.K.

Selected and participated in performances, Podcasts, Talks and Conferences
2025
Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Les Premières Gouttes du Ciel 滴星, Non-place Contemporary Art Museum 不在場美術館, Luoyang, China
Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Glasgow 850, Project Ability, Glasgow, U.K.
Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Queer East Festival 2025, Rio Cinema, London, U.K.
Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Adelaide Fringe 2025, Adelaide, A.U.
2024
Performer at Wah Yen by Wei Zhang, Glasgow International Festival 2024, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, U.K.
2023
Guest Speaker at ESEA Artists' Futures Town Hall, Sheffield, U.K.
Guest Speaker at ESEA Artists’ Futures Roundtable Event, Scotland: CARE, Glasgow, U.K.
Performer at QueenswaY x Haus Of Chan: Kinky Queer Icons, Q U A RR Y, Liverpool, U.K.
Podcast Host at 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 at Melodic Distraction Take-Over w/ auntie k & mui mui Em, HàNội Community Radio, HàNội, Vietnam
Guest Speaker at Table Talk at Sheba Art Festival: Decolonising Cultural Institutions, Manchester, U.K.
Performer at House of Suarez Presents the Royalty Ball 2023: Haus of Chan at the Realness Category, The Eurovision Village, Liverpool, U.K.
2022
Podcast Host at Morning Radio Show with Liverpool ESEA Network, Melodic Distraction UK, Liverpool, U.K.
Performer at House of Suarez Presents the Disco Ball 2022: Haus of Chan at the Six Siren Solo Category, Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, U.K.
Guest Speaker at Roundtable event with Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator of 2023 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K.
Performer at 26 May: awkward silence, stand-up comedy, The Bluecoat, U.K.
2019
Guest Speaker at Reorganising cultural organisations, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
Guest Speaker at Catalyst 25 Year Symposium, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, U.K.

Curated and Facilitated Public Engagement Activities
2024
Workshop Facilitator at Red Envelope Treasure Hunt Workshop with Katherine Ka Yi Liu &Dan Chan, FACT, Liverpool, U.K.
Workshop Facilitator at Eurovision 2023, *dumplingvision*: a dumpling-making workshop, Liverpool, U.K.
Curator Talk Host Zoom Q&A for breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2022
Guest Lecturer at BAFA (Ceramics), Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
2022
Workshop Facilitator at Reading Group: for generation(s) that are yet to be born, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2021
Co-curator, Bothy Project’s collaboration with Transmission Gallery involved artists Najma Abukar, Adebusola Ramsay, Clarinda Tse and Matthew Arthur Williams
2020
Workshop Facilitator at auntie k: photo-psychic-reading session, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
2019     
Artist Talk Host at In Conversation with Jasmine Brown-Rosé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
Workshop Facilitator at Chinese Calligraphy Workshop, Wellbeing Festival, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, U.K.
Workshop Facilitator at Reading Group: for daughter(s) that are yet to be born, Ricefield Library, Glasgow, U.K.
2016     
Guest Lecturer at Untitled: Titling Workshop for 2nd Year students in Sculpture & Environment Art, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Satellites Programme Solo Commission: neither the West nor the East can be a determinate location, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.

Curated Exhibitions
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, U.K.
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, U.K.

2019
HEAVY DUTY: Annual Members’ Show 2019 Edition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
RE: Respite, Ain Bailey, Alicia Mersy, Lydia Ourahmane, La Nietas De Nonó & Jasmine Brown-Rasé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
With loving resistance, Yon Afro Collective, Ubuntu Women’s Shelter, RCS People of Colour Collective, GSA People of Colour Collection, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2018
Untouchable Gypsy Witch, Delaine Le Bas, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
COCO!NUTS!, Rabiya Choudhry, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
Plenary, iQhiya, Glasgow International 2018, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2017
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
Ignore The Radiators, Glasgow Open House Festival, Venue #67, Glasgow, U.K.
if it’s true, tell it to me. (one-day pop-up exhibition & workshop), House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, U.K.

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 & 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 &Terence Trouillot, 15 December 2022, London, UK
2020   
In Conversation with Sekai, The List February 2020 Issue, Glasgow, U.K.
2018   
Transmission Gallery: The Phone is the Keyhole; The Penpot, The Heart, Publication by Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Adam Benmakhlouf, Thulani Rachia, Alaya Ang, & 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, Hong Kong
Visual Art Residency 2021, Cove Park, Helensburgh, U.K.
2020
Creative Lab Residency Program 2020/21, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.

Awards
2025   
Emerging Artists Development Grant from Hong Kong Arts Development Council
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

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, U.K.
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, U.K.

2018
Wish Fulfilment, Sine Projects, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
In Residence, 16 Nicholson Street Gallery & Art Collective, Glasgow, U.K.
Radio Space, Borealis - en festival for eksperimentell musikk, Bergan, Norway
2017
Fields of Wheat, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
If it's true, tell it to me. House for An Art Lover, Glasgow, U.K.
Ignore the Radiator, Glasgow Open House Art Festival, Glasgow, U.K.