{{Multiple issues|{{BLP primary sources|date=November 2017}} {{notability|Bio|date=November 2017}}}} {{short description|Scottish photographer and artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox artist | name = Gayle Chong Kwan | image = Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013.jpg | caption = Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | field = Photography, visual arts | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} '''Gayle Chong Kwan''' (born 1973) is a London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jessica|last1=Lack|access-date=2023-07-11|title=Exhibition preview: Gayle Chong Kwan, Lymington|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/18/gayle-chong-kwan-artsway-lymington|newspaper=The Guardian|date=17 April 2009|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Clark |first1=Robert |access-date=2023-07-11|title=Exhibition preview: The Return Of The Ivories/Gayle Chong Kwan, Sheffield - Exhibitions - The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/03/return-of-the-ivories-sheffield|website=The Guardian |date=3 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Ellie|last1=Broughton|access-date=2023-07-11|title=Gayle Chong Kwan - the woman turning our lockdown dreams into art|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/coronavirus-dreams-gayle-chong-kwan-turning-subconscious-minds-art-558529|date=21 July 2020|website=inews.co.uk}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gayle Chong Kwan|url=http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/gayle-chong-kwan/|work=Contemporary Art Society|accessdate=21 March 2014|archive-date=7 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407081830/http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/gayle-chong-kwan/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Education== Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art,<ref>{{cite web|title=Gayle Chong Kwan|url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research/student-research/research-students/gayle-chong-kwan/|work=Royal College of Art|accessdate=21 March 2014|archive-date=7 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407070927/http://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research/student-research/research-students/gayle-chong-kwan/|url-status=live}}</ref> London, (2012-). She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester (1994), where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling (1995); and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000).
==Awards== *Arts Council England International Fellow (2005) *Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Award (2005) *Vauxhall Collective Photography Award (2008) *Royal Scottish Academy Award (2013) *Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (2013). A commission to produce ""Arripare"<ref name="refocus-2015">{{cite web | url = http://www.refocusprize.com/winning-artist-sarah-pickering-unveils-new-commission/ | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = Refocus | title = Match, 2015 | archive-date = 7 April 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170407150613/http://www.refocusprize.com/winning-artist-sarah-pickering-unveils-new-commission/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="refocus-2013">{{cite web | url = http://www.refocusprize.com/arripare/ | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = Refocus | title = Arripare, 2013 | archive-date = 16 January 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170116083416/http://www.refocusprize.com/arripare/ | url-status = live }}</ref> *'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award (2014) *FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London (2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/FATHOM-residency-artists-2014|title=four corners film|website=www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-03-06|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306235417/http://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/FATHOM-residency-artists-2014|url-status=live}}</ref> *British Council/Arts Council England International Artist Award - 'Photography in the Public Realm New York' (2015)
==Personal life== Chong Kwan was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Chinese-Mauritian father. She lives with her two sons (born in 2009 and 2015), in Leytonstone, London.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zuccotti|first=Paula|title=Gayle Chong Kwan|url=http://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/gayle-chong-kwan/|work=Freunde von Freunden|date=27 May 2013 |accessdate=18 March 2014|archive-date=21 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321062655/http://www.freundevonfreunden.com/interviews/gayle-chong-kwan/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Gayle Chong Kwan}} *{{official website|http://gaylechongkwan.com}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chong Kwan, Gayle}} Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Central Saint Martins Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester Category:Alumni of the University of Stirling Category:Artists from Edinburgh Category:British people of Mauritian descent Category:Photographers from London Category:Scottish contemporary artists Category:Scottish people of Chinese descent Category:Scottish women photographers