Kwan Kiu Leung

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• PhD

  School

  School of Arts & Humanities

  Programme

  Critical & Historical Studies, 2013–2019

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• Kwan Kiu Leung is a Viva PhD graduate, who passed without corrections on 19 November 2018. 

  Between 2000 and 2019 Kwan Liu sold 30 paintings, 10 works of calligraphy and three works of poetry to collectors. 

  
  

• Degrees

• MA Contemporary Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2009; BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art in the Community, College of Art and Design, Reading, 2006

• Experience

• (2016 and 2017) External Examiner for Lasalle College of Art, Singapore; (2007–18) Member and Associate Member of Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, UK; (2009) Artist in Residence, ‘Nest 1, 2, 3’ Oxford University, Oxford University Parks, Oxford, UK; (2009) Artist in Residence, ‘Nests 4, 5, 6’ Oxford University, Oxford Botanical Gardens, UK; (2009) Student Representative, MA Contemporary Fine Art. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford; (1999–2003) Kwan's Art Studio, Gallery, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire, UK; (1997–9) 'In Search of Leonardo Da Vinci – Art history and Art' workshops in Florence, Italy, and in Tours, France

• Exhibitions

• ‘My Name - 梁 群 娇’ Practice – investigation self, exploring subjectivity, and authorship, Artist’s Studio, Oxford, 2013–2019; ‘Rice’, project with audience eating a bowl of rice, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, 2012; ‘What is Meditation?’, Artist’s Studio, Oxford, 2011; ‘What is Nurturing? – Nest 7’, O3 Gallery, Oxford, 2010; ‘Commitment’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2010; ‘Nurturing’ Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2009; ‘Nest 7’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2009; ‘Nest 1, 2, 3’, Oxford University, Oxford University Parks, Oxford, 2009; ‘Nests 4, 5, 6’, Oxford University, Oxford Botanical Gardens, 2009; ‘Commitment’ (1-12), Said Business School, Oxford, 2009; ‘Commitment’ (1-12), South Hill Park Gallery, Bracknell, Berkshire, 2009; ‘Hope’, South Hill Park Gallery, Bracknell, Berkshire, 2009; ‘Light in the Darkness’, Said Business School, Oxford, 2009; ‘Horse, Bridge, Tree', Headington Hill, Oxford, 2008; ‘For the Angels of China’, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, 2008; ‘What You Say Matters’, Said Business School, Oxford, 2008; ‘Visit to my Studio’, Oxford Artweek, Yarnells Hill, Oxford, 2008; ‘Mustard Seeds' (1,2), Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2008; ‘Black Queen’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2008; ‘Be not sad, be like the sun at midday’, I Ching, Oxford, 2007; ‘Humanities’, Studio, Oxford, UK, 2007; ‘In Memory Of’ Earls Court, London, UK., 2006; 2006 ‘In Memory Of’ Brick Lane, London, UK.; 2006 ‘Breast Cancer’ Earley Community, Reading, UK.; 2006 ‘Breast Cancer’ London, Highgate community, UK; 2006 Work appeared on News Meridian TV.; 2005 ‘Cotton Tree’ Studio, Reading, UK.; 2004-2005 ‘I Love You’ Studio, Reading, UK.; 2003-2004 ‘With Myself’ Studio, Reading, UK.; 2001-2002 ‘Calligraphy in Poetry’ I, 2, 3, 4, 5, Studio, Eton, Windsor, UK.; 2001 ‘Self-Portrait’, Studio, Eton, Windsor, UK; 2000 ‘Working with Oil’ Studio, Eton, Windsor, UK; 2000 ‘Thinking about Leonardo Da Vinci’ Artist’s Studio, Eton, Windsor, UK.; 2000 ‘Thinking about Van Gogh’ Studio, Eton, Windsor, UK.

• Conferences

• (2019–20) 'You Are Brilliant - Don't Give Up!' Words To My Fellow Colleagues, Friends, and the Other; (2019) ‘Visuality and Criticism In The Public Sphere’ , CIHA Conference, Florence, Italy – Motion – Transformation. Funded by Getty Foundation Grant Award 2019; (2019) 'The Self in Contemporary Chinese Artists 2', ICAS Conference 11 in Leiden, Netherlands; (2019) 'Actualising Female Subjectivity in the work of He Chengyao', Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; (2017) 'The Self In Contemporary Chinese Artists 1', EAAA Conference, Zurich

• Publications

• (2010) Reviewed by AN Magazine, Newspapers and the Spires of Oxford