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Gayle Chong Kwan
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Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013
Born 1973 (age 50–51)
Known for Photography, visual arts

Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) 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, (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"
  • 'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award (2014)
  • FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London (2014)
  • 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.

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