Online Artist Talk: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui
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Join artist Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui, along with guest curator Rebecca Wang for an artist talk on Qiu Anxiong & Howie Tsui: The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring. The two artists will discuss the historical and cultural references in their works and share how they draw on ancient mythology and martial arts fiction to reflect on contemporary issues.
Session Format:
Session will be hosted as a livestream webinar. Pre-registration is required to join.
Join the conversation using the Zoom Chat and Q+A features.
Automated English captions included.
About the Presenters:
Qiu Anxiong (邱岸雄) was born in Sichuan in 1972. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1994 and later earned a degree from the Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in Germany in 2003. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Design, East China Normal University. As a leading figure in contemporary ink animation, his works are part of the collections of prestigious international and domestic institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Kunsthalle Zürich, and M+ Museum of Contemporary Art (Hong Kong).
He has held solo exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Fosun Foundation (Shanghai), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas), and Crow Museum of Asian Art (Dallas). His work has also been featured in major international and domestic exhibitions, including Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the São Paulo Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, the Cairo Biennale, the Thessaloniki Biennale, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and the Busan Biennale.
Howie Tsui (徐浩恩), b. 1978, Hong Kong – raised in Lagos and Thunder Bay, is based in Vancouver*. Working in ink brush, sound sculptures, lenticular lightboxes and installation, Tsui constructs tense, fictive environments that undermine venerated art forms and narrative genres, often stemming from the Chinese literati tradition. He employs a stylized form of derisive and exaggerated imagery as a way to satirize and disarm broadening regimes and their programs of cultural hegemony. The most notable branch of his practice involves the use of algorithmic animation sequences to raise questions around order, chaos and the potential of social harmony through self-organized societies. Tsui synthesizes diverging socio-cultural anxieties around superstition, surveillance and otherness through a distinctly outsider lens to cast light onto liminal and diasporic experiences.
Solo exhibitions: Patel Brown, Toronto (2025), Hanart TZ, Hong Kong (2024); Glenbow Museum (2023); Art Windsor-Essex (2022); Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2021); The Power Plant, Toronto (2020); Ringling Museum of Art, US (2020); Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver (2020); Ottawa Art Gallery (2019); OCAT Museum, Xi’an (2018) and the Vancouver Art Gallery (2017). Select group exhibitions: Chinese Canadian Museum (2024), Macao International Art Biennale (2023); Art Gallery of New South Wales (2022); Tai Kwun Contemporary; Hong Kong (2021), Vancouver Art Gallery (2021); Asia Now, Paris (2019); Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2015); Para Site, Hong Kong (2014); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2014); and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2013). Public collections: National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Canada Council Art Bank, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ottawa Art Gallery, City of Ottawa, Global Affairs Canada, RBC Collection, Centre d’exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul and M+ Museum of Visual Culture. Tsui received Canada Council’s Joseph Stauffer Prize in 2005, longlisted for Sobey Art Award in 2018 and shortlisted for the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award (2024). He holds a BFA from the University of Waterloo.
* traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Rebecca Wang 王晨釔 is a curator and artist working between her hometown of Hangzhou, China, and the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. Her curatorial interests span mythology, folklore, the everyday, and diasporic experiences. Her multidisciplinary practice navigates personal confusions in life, often stemming from the absurdity engrained in capitalist consumer culture. Rebecca curated Conditional Belonging (2021) at Access Gallery and produced the accompanying podcast Our Work Is These Conversations. As the Curatorial Assistant at Richmond Art Gallery, she has been curating exhibitions at Richmond City Hall Galleria and The Annex Gallery since 2022. In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition Blooming While Withering at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Rebecca holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and a BBA from Simon Fraser University. She is currently pursuing an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies at University of British Columbia, and serves as the Board Treasurer at Access Gallery.
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Session Format:
Session will be hosted as a livestream webinar. Pre-registration is required to join.
Join the conversation using the Zoom Chat and Q+A features.
Automated English captions included.
About the Presenters:
Qiu Anxiong (邱岸雄) was born in Sichuan in 1972. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1994 and later earned a degree from the Kassel Academy of Fine Arts in Germany in 2003. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Design, East China Normal University. As a leading figure in contemporary ink animation, his works are part of the collections of prestigious international and domestic institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Kunsthalle Zürich, and M+ Museum of Contemporary Art (Hong Kong).
He has held solo exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Fosun Foundation (Shanghai), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas), and Crow Museum of Asian Art (Dallas). His work has also been featured in major international and domestic exhibitions, including Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the São Paulo Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, the Cairo Biennale, the Thessaloniki Biennale, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and the Busan Biennale.
Howie Tsui (徐浩恩), b. 1978, Hong Kong – raised in Lagos and Thunder Bay, is based in Vancouver*. Working in ink brush, sound sculptures, lenticular lightboxes and installation, Tsui constructs tense, fictive environments that undermine venerated art forms and narrative genres, often stemming from the Chinese literati tradition. He employs a stylized form of derisive and exaggerated imagery as a way to satirize and disarm broadening regimes and their programs of cultural hegemony. The most notable branch of his practice involves the use of algorithmic animation sequences to raise questions around order, chaos and the potential of social harmony through self-organized societies. Tsui synthesizes diverging socio-cultural anxieties around superstition, surveillance and otherness through a distinctly outsider lens to cast light onto liminal and diasporic experiences.
Solo exhibitions: Patel Brown, Toronto (2025), Hanart TZ, Hong Kong (2024); Glenbow Museum (2023); Art Windsor-Essex (2022); Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2021); The Power Plant, Toronto (2020); Ringling Museum of Art, US (2020); Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver (2020); Ottawa Art Gallery (2019); OCAT Museum, Xi’an (2018) and the Vancouver Art Gallery (2017). Select group exhibitions: Chinese Canadian Museum (2024), Macao International Art Biennale (2023); Art Gallery of New South Wales (2022); Tai Kwun Contemporary; Hong Kong (2021), Vancouver Art Gallery (2021); Asia Now, Paris (2019); Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2015); Para Site, Hong Kong (2014); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2014); and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2013). Public collections: National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Canada Council Art Bank, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ottawa Art Gallery, City of Ottawa, Global Affairs Canada, RBC Collection, Centre d’exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul and M+ Museum of Visual Culture. Tsui received Canada Council’s Joseph Stauffer Prize in 2005, longlisted for Sobey Art Award in 2018 and shortlisted for the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award (2024). He holds a BFA from the University of Waterloo.
* traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Rebecca Wang 王晨釔 is a curator and artist working between her hometown of Hangzhou, China, and the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. Her curatorial interests span mythology, folklore, the everyday, and diasporic experiences. Her multidisciplinary practice navigates personal confusions in life, often stemming from the absurdity engrained in capitalist consumer culture. Rebecca curated Conditional Belonging (2021) at Access Gallery and produced the accompanying podcast Our Work Is These Conversations. As the Curatorial Assistant at Richmond Art Gallery, she has been curating exhibitions at Richmond City Hall Galleria and The Annex Gallery since 2022. In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition Blooming While Withering at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Rebecca holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and a BBA from Simon Fraser University. She is currently pursuing an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies at University of British Columbia, and serves as the Board Treasurer at Access Gallery.
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