Howie Tsui speaks with Joni Low in ECU’s Visual Art Forum, February 25
Tsui’s artwork subverts revered art forms and narrative genres
Howie Tsui, Parallax Chambers (study), 2018. Digital composite. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown
ECU’s Visual Art Forum with artist Howie Tsui in conversation with Joni Low takes place via Zoom February 25 from 1 to 2:30 pm PST
The Visual Art Forum lecture by artist Howie Tsui in conversation with Joni Low takes place via Zoom February 25 from 1 to 2:30 pm PST.
The Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art & Design is hosting the next edition of its Visual Art Forum on February 25 with Howie Tsui in conversation with Joni Low.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and Thunder Bay, Tsui works in multiple forms of media, creating, as his website describes, “fictive environments that subvert venerated art forms and narrative genres, often related to the Chinese literati class.
“Tsui synthesizes diverging socio-cultural anxieties around superstition, trauma, acculturation, and otherness through a distinctly outsider lens to advocate for liminal and diasporic experiences.”
He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, and his artwork has appeared at such renowned venues as the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, and Vancouver Art Gallery,
In 2005, Tsui received Canada Council for the Arts’ Joseph Stauffer Prize for outstanding young artist; in 2018, he was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.
Low is a local independent curator and critic.
The free lecture is open to ECU students, staff, faculty, alumni as well as the public. More information can be found here.
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