Gayle Chong Kwan
Gayle Chong Kwan is a London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.
She is known for her large-scale mise-en-scene environments and photographs, created out of waste products, found materials and documentary sources, and which are often sited in the public realm.
Education
Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London,. She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester, where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling ; and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.Awards
- Arts Council England International Fellow
- Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Award
- Vauxhall Collective Photography Award
- Royal Scottish Academy Award
- Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. A commission to produce ""Arripare"
- 'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award
- FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London
- British Council/Arts Council England International Artist Award - 'Photography in the Public Realm New York'