Judging Panel
Kingsley NG
Associate Professor
Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

Kingsley Ng (b. 1980) lives and works in Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a focus on conceptual, site-specific, participatory and process-based projects. He often works with the ephemeral and intangible, such as light, sound, space and time. Light is often used not only as a medium but also as a metaphor for art making - to cast light on the imperceptible, hidden or forgotten.

Kingsley’s work has been featured in international institutions and exhibitions, such as Contemporary Art Centre South Australia (2016), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2014), Guangzhou Triennial (2012), Land Art Biennial Mongolia (2012), Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Japan (2009), and IRCAM - Centre Pompidou in France (2006).

He is the recipient of the DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2008, Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013, Award for Best Artist in Media Arts; also, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship 2013 and Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009. Kingsley received postgraduate training at Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France under the tutelage of Alain Fleischer, Andrea Cera, Atau Tanaka and Gary Hill and graduated les felicitation du jury à l’unanimité. He also holds an MSc in Sustainable Design from the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media from Ryerson University in Toronto.