Lam Wai Kit
{{short description|Chinese artist (born 1966)}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2014}}
{{family name hatnote|Lam(林)|lang=Chinese}}
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{{lang|zh|Lin Huijie}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}
| birth_place = Hong Kong, China
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| education = Goldsmiths College
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
| known_for = Photography, video art, mixed media
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Lam Wai Kit ({{zh|c=林慧潔|p=Lin Huijie}}; born 1966) is a Chinese artist born in Hong Kong. Lam graduated with her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK in 1996. In 2003, she graduated with her MFA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
Career
Lam's media included photography, video art and mixed media. From 1996, she held several solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Italy and Canada. Her works have been collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum,{{cite web|last=Clarke|first=David|title=Hong Kong Art Archive|url=http://finearts.hku.hk/hkaa/revamp2011/artist_view.php?artist_id=136|accessdate=March 7, 2014}}{{better source needed|date=March 2014}} and also private collections in UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Canada, America, Australia, and Hong Kong.{{cite web|title=Lam Wai-kit (Videotage)|url=http://www.northernvideoart.net/ARTISTS/lamwaikit|publisher=Northern Video Art Network, NOVA|accessdate=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140319062349/http://www.northernvideoart.net/ARTISTS/lamwaikit|archive-date=19 March 2014|url-status=dead}} Selected works by Lam, Divided Minds (22) (2006) and Divided Minds (36) (2006), are featured on Google Cultural Institute's Google Art Project.{{cite web|title=Google Art Project|url=https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/entity/%2Fm%2F0t505y1?projectId=art-project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610184211/http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/entity/%2Fm%2F0t505y1?projectId=art-project|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2014|publisher=Google Cultural Institute|accessdate=19 March 2014}}
Lam is also an art educator and is now teaching at several art institutes in visual art and cultural studies.{{cite book|title=Fotanian 2004 Open Studio|publisher=Fotanian|location=Hong Kong|isbn=988-98221-1-3|pages=22–24}} Lam works in a variety of media, including installation, photography, and video art.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
Solo exhibitions
1996
- Change / Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
1997
- Beyond Colours / Dragon's Back Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
1998
- This is you; this is not you / Agfa Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
2000
- Frozen Words II - Dialogues within Oneself / First Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Hong Kong
- Frozen Words / The Gallery, Art Forest, Toronto, Canada
- The Secret Gardens / Montblanc Gallery at the Fringe, Hong Kong
2002
- Displacement / First Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Hong Kong
2004
- The Other / Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong
2007
- The Other Month; The Other Day / Schmidt Leica Photo Gallery, Hong Kong
- The Divided Minds V - Photography and video installation by Wai Kit Lam / Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2009
- Unknown - Works by Wai Kit Lam, Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme IV / Hong Kong Film Archive & Tse Wan Shan Centre, Hong Kong
2012
- Five Senses - A series of 5 videos by Wai Kit Lam / Aesop Cityplaza, Hong Kong
- Sleight - Wai Kit Lam / Lumenvisum, Hong Kong {{cite web|title=《Sleight》A Photo Exhibition by Wai Kit Lam|url=http://www.lumenvisum.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14:sleighta-photo-exhibition-by-wai-kit-lam&catid=1:exhibitions&Itemid=3|publisher=Lumenvisum|accessdate=19 March 2014}}
- Small But Great - photography, video art & sound by Wai Kit Lam / Casa Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Portugal
Residency programs participated
Source:{{cite web|title=Wai Kit Lam: CV|url=http://www.waikitlam.com/cv.htm|accessdate=19 March 2014}}
- 2005/6 – 12: FUSE :: fusion: encoding future, Videotage / Hong Kong
- 2009/10 - 12: Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency / Berlin, Germany
- 2011/1: Fundación Valparaíso / Mojácar, Spain
- 2012/11: 12: LKV - Lademoen Kunstnerverkstede / Trondheim, Norway {{cite web|title=LKV Residency Program Archive: [01.11.12 - 25.12.12] Wai Kit Lam - Hong Kong|url=http://www.lkv.no/eng/guest-archive-wai-kit-lam.html|publisher=Lademoen Kunstnerverkstede|accessdate=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319100031/http://www.lkv.no/eng/guest-archive-wai-kit-lam.html|archive-date=19 March 2014|url-status=dead}}
- 2012/3: Casa Monsaraz / Monsaraz, Portugal
- 2014/3: Lichtenberg Studios / Berlin, Germany
Selected grants received
- 2002/6: Research Grant, Art Museum / The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2009/10 - 12: "Destination Berlin"—Artist-in-Residence Subsidy Scheme{{cite web|title=Grant List - Cultural Exchange|url=http://www.hkadc.org.hk/UserFiles/File/info_centre/artnews/ArtNews_09_G.pdf|publisher=Hong Kong Arts Development Council 香港藝術發展局|accessdate=19 March 2014}} / Hong Kong Arts Development Council
- 2011/1: Fundación Valparaíso / Mojácar, Spain
Selected works
- The Green Mirror 綠色鏡子 (1993), colour photograph, size unknown
- This is you; this is not you 是你；不是你 (1998) b/w digital video 18’
- The Secret Gardens: Portrait no. 2 秘密庭園：人像二 (1999) b/w photograph, silicon rubber, wood plate 7.5"x 15.5"
- The Secret Gardens: Portrait no. 3 秘密庭園：人像三 (1999) b/w photograph, silicon rubber, wood plate 7.5" x 15.5"