{{Short description|Artist}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=March 2020}} {{Resume-like|date=May 2021}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Suki Chan | image = Suki Chan.jpg | image_size = 220 | caption = Suki Chan filming Still Point in 2011 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Hong Kong | death_date = | death_place = | field = Video art<br />Installation Art<br />New Media Art | training = | movement = | works = ''MEMORY'' (2019),''Lucida'' (2016), ''Still Point'' (2012), ''Sleep Walk Sleep Talk'' (2010), ''Interval II'' (2008) | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }}
'''Suki Chan''' (born in Hong Kong) is an artist and filmmaker whose work uses light, moving image and sound to explore our perception of reality.<ref name="tandfonline">{{cite journal|title=Suki Chan: The Space Between| doi=10.1080/09528822.2010.502784|volume=24| issue=5|journal=Third Text|pages=635–637 |year = 2010|last1 = Kember|first1 = Pamela| s2cid=143539289}}</ref><ref name="whitechapelgallery">{{cite web|url=http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/183/product_id/1613?session_id=13950876885c2356b81665959d8c35b4155fdfa1a2|title=Double Act: Becca Voelcker; Suki Chan|publisher=whitechapelgallery.org|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Contemporary Visual Arts|author=Patrick, K.|date=2000|issue=nos. 28–31|publisher=G+B Magazines Unlimited|issn=1028-5040|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SHZMAAAAYAAJ|isbn=9783908247999}}</ref><ref name="greenroomutd">{{cite web|url=http://www.greenroomutd.org/people/suki-chan|title=Suki Chan {{pipe}} www.greenroomutd.org|publisher=greenroomutd.org|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> She is drawn to light as a physical phenomenon, and the role it plays in our constantly shifting daily experience of our environment, be it urban or rural.<ref name="artangel">{{cite web|url=http://www.artangel.org.uk/about_us/open/open_100/suki_chan|title=Artangel {{pipe}}|publisher=artangel.org.uk|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> Her pieces vary from photography, film installation to mixed-media sculptures.<ref name="a-n">{{cite web|url=http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/artists_stories/single/377223|title=Suki Chan « a-n The Artists Information Company|publisher=a-n.co.uk|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref><ref name="culturehall">{{cite web|url=http://culturehall.com/suki_chan/biography;jsessionid=5E58FB50DEA085E97B7E1B2DE6C59F30|title=Suki Chan - Artist Biography and CV|publisher=culturehall.com|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref>
Chan is based in London and is represented by Tintype Gallery.<ref name="tintypegallery">{{cite web|url=http://www.tintypegallery.com/artists/suki-chan/|title=Suki Chan|publisher=tintypegallery.com|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> She is also a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021|reason=Source not found - information may be incorrect}}
==Education== *1996: Foundation in Art and Design- Winchester School of Art *1999: BA Fine Art - Goldsmiths *2008: MA Fine Art - Chelsea
==Commissions== Chan has been commissioned by various organisations to produce work for both galleries and public spaces; including Science Gallery Dublin,<ref name="science-gallery-dublin">{{cite web|url=https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/seeing|title=SEEING|publisher=Science Gallery|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref> Film and Video Umbrella,<ref name="fvu"> {{cite web |url=http://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/detail/artists/suki-chan |title=Suki Chan {{pipe}} Commissions {{pipe}} Projects {{pipe}} |publisher=Film and Video Umbrella |accessdate=2014-09-22}} </ref> Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art,<ref name="CFCCA archive"> {{cite web |url=http://archive.cfcca.org.uk/index.php/Detail/entities/88 |title= CFCCA Archive: Person: Chan, Suki, artist, (b.1977) |publisher=Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art |accessdate=2018-11-11}} </ref> The Young Foundation, Art on the Underground<ref name="tfl">{{cite web|url=http://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/current/artist/9220|title=Art on the Underground - Current Projects|publisher=art.tfl.gov.uk|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> and Aspex Gallery.<ref name="whitechapelgallery"/><ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=A Hundred Seas Rising|author1=Chan, S.|author2=Bushnell, J.|date=2012|publisher=Aspex|isbn=9780955025846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3q6kQEACAAJ}}</ref>
==Collections== Chan's work is included in the collections of the Museum of London,<ref name="museumoflondon"> {{cite web |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/corporate/press-media/press-releases/sleep-walk-sleep-talk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122094048/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/corporate/press-media/press-releases/sleep-walk-sleep-talk/ |archive-date=2013-11-22 |url-status=dead |title=Sleep walk sleep talk |accessdate=2014-09-22}} </ref> University of Salford Arts Collection,<ref name="salford art collection"> {{cite web |url=http://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/chinese-contemporary-art/ |title=New Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art |publisher=University of Salford |accessdate=2018-11-11}}</ref> University of the Arts Art Collection,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interval II|url=https://collections.arts.ac.uk/objects/28096/interval-ii;jsessionid=1BF409516AF3BA65599DA07507041C15|access-date=2021-12-08|website=collections.arts.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref> David Roberts Art Foundation and the Ingram Collection.<ref name="ingramcollection"> {{cite web |url=http://www.ingramcollection.com/artists/suki-chan |title=Suki Chan « The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art |publisher=ingramcollection.com |accessdate=2014-09-22}} </ref>
==Honours== In 2008, she was nominated for the Northern Art Prize<ref name="northernartprize">{{cite web|url=http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/2008-prize|title=2008 Prize Northern Art Prize|publisher=northernartprize.org.uk|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref><ref name="a-n2">{{cite web|url=http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/article/458239|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319044140/http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/article/458239 |archive-date=2014-03-19 |url-status=dead|title=Northern Art Prize 2008 {{pipe}} Artists talking {{pipe}} a-n|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> and in 2010, she was shortlisted for the Renaissance Art Prize.<ref name="esteri">{{cite web|url=http://www.icilondon.esteri.it/IIC_Londra/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=554|title=Italian Cultural Institute London|publisher=icilondon.esteri.it|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref>
In 2009, Chan was one of the six young British artists featured in the BBC's series School of Saatchi.<ref name="saatchiart">{{cite web|url=http://magazine.saatchiart.com/articles/artnews/london-solo-show-for-bbc-school-of-saatchi-finalist-suki-chan|title=London Solo Show for BBC School of Saatchi Finalist Suki Chan : Saatchi Art Magazine : News and Updates for Art Lovers|publisher=magazine.saatchiart.com|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref><ref name="thebookoftravels">{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookoftravels.org/acknowledgements/suki-chan|title=Suki Chan {{pipe}} The Book of Travels|publisher=thebookoftravels.org|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> On the show, Tracey Emin who said that her work was better than some established artists. "The film's flipping brilliant," she said. "There's a few artists' names come to mind when I saw it but this knocks spots off them."<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6624377/Charles-Saatchi-hunts-for-new-star-on-artists-answer-to-X-Factor.html|title=Charles Saatchi hunts for new star on artists' answer to X Factor - Telegraph|publisher=telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref> Chan's work also received a positive review in The Guardian newspaper from the art critic Robert Clark who wrote "Suki Chan's art makes us wonder in more ways than one. It enables us to treasure the wonder of the world through daring to suggest the dreadful cost of the loss of such wonderful phenomena."<ref name="thebookoftravels"/><ref name="saatchionline">{{cite web|url=http://ap.saatchionline.com/art/Photography-Sleep-Walk-Sleep-Talk-film-still/11145/1434865/view|title=Saatchi Art Artist: Suki Chan; Color 2009 Photography "Sleep Walk Sleep Talk, film still"|publisher=ap.saatchionline.com|accessdate=2014-09-22}}</ref>
==Residencies== In partnership with Bluecoat and Arts Council England, Chan was invited to be one of the artists in residence at the Belong care village, Crewe. Chan interviewed residents which formed the basis of her project, CONSCIOUS.<ref name="guardian_residency">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/26/arts-care-homes-healthy|title='It helps residents stay healthy': the benefits of arts in care homes|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref><ref name="Bluecoat_residency">{{cite web|url=http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/content/-suki-chan|title='Suki Chan, Feb 19|publisher=Bluecoat|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref><ref name="Arts_Council_Conscious">{{cite web|url=https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/long-read/conscious|title=CONSCIOUS Suki Chan|publisher=Arts Council England|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref>
In 2005, Chan completed a residency at the Osteopathic Centre for Children, producing 1,000 origami cranes for their permanent installation at the charity's Manchester base.<ref name="Manchester_Evening_News_Residency">{{cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/hatton-helps-launch-kids-project-1077141|title=Hatton helps launch kids' project|publisher=Manchester Evening News|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref><ref name="Guardian_Residency_2006">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/26/northerner.martinwainwright|title=Stop the tramlines, I want them cut off|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2020-03-19}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.sukichan.co.uk/ Official website] *[http://archive.cfcca.org.uk/index.php/Detail/entities/88 Suki Chan at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Archive & Library] *[https://aaa.org.hk/en/search/search/actors:3486 Suki Chan at the Asia Art Archive]
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