VISUAL CULTURE
susan pui san lok: CV
Research Fellow, School of Arts & Education, Middlesex University
EDUCATION
1997-2004 – PhD Fine Art (Practice & Theory), A – Y: Locating ‘British Chinese’ Art, HEFCE-funded research studentship with Aavaa (African & Asian Visual Artists Archive), School of Architecture & the Visual Arts, University of East London
1995-1996 – MA Feminism & the Visual Arts (Distinction), University of Leeds
1991-1994 – BA Hons Fine Art (First), Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds
SELECTED AWARDS
2007 – Shortlisted for London Artists Film and Video Awards
2006 – Shortlisted for Artsadmin Artists Bursary Scheme
2005 – AHRC Diasporas, Migrations and Identities Programme (Small Grants Scheme)
2005 – ACE Grants for the Arts (Individual Award)
1997-2000 – HEFCE Full-time Doctoral Research Funding, University of East London
1997, 1998, 2000 – Epping Forest Arts Small Grant Scheme (Individual Award)
1997 – London Arts Board ‘Go & See’ (Research & Travel Grant)
1995-1996 – British Academy Full-time Postgraduate Research Grant 1994 – South Yorkshire / BT Open (First Prize) Cooper Gallery / BT
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2004-present – Research Fellow, School of Arts & Education, Middlesex University
2008 – Visiting Lecturer, inaugural Gertz Distinguished Teaching Series, Matters of Perception: Articulating Hybridity, Alfred University, New York
2006-07 – Visiting Lecturer (Fine Art), School of Arts & Education, Middlesex University
2000-2004 – Guest lectures at the Royal College of Art, London; Goldsmiths College, University of London; Courtauld Institute, London; Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds
2003 – Visiting Lecturer, Winchester School of Art
2002-2003 – Project Research Officer, GLAADH (Globalising Art, Architecture & Design History), School of Arts, Middlesex University
2002-2003 – Visiting Lecturer, Department of Historical & Theoretical Studies, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
2000-2001 – Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual Culture & Media, Middlesex University
1998-2000 – Visiting Lecturer, School of Art & Visual Theory, University of East London
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2007-08 – Selected for Contemporary Arts Leadership Network, funded by the Cultural Leadership Programme
2007 – Selected for Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network One-to-One Advisory Scheme
SOLO PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES
2008 – Faster, Higher, co-commissioned by BFI and Film & Video Umbrella, BFI Southbank Gallery and touring (forthcoming)
2007-08 – The Bigger Picture, commission & touring exhibition, Cornerhouse, Manchester; ENTER, Norwich; Lumen, Leeds; Site Gallery, Sheffield; (forthcoming)
2006 – Golden (Lessons), exhibition & residency, Beaconsfield, London
2006 – Golden, exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2005 – Necessary Journeys, artist’s residency at MACE (Media Archive of Central England), an Arts Council England programme in partnership with BFI Black World
2005 – Electric Greenhouse, digital arts residency, Artquest / B3 Media, London
2000 – FCHKUK, exhibition, Stuff Gallery, London
2000 – Lean To, exhibition, East London Gallery, University of East London
1998 – Retrospectre / Un- (part 6), exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
1997 – Un- (prose-fiction-pose-friction), performance, Cornerhouse, Manchester
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS
2008 – Artists in the Archive, Cornerhouse Bigger Picture programme, BBC Screen, Manchester
2007 – ARTRADIO, exhibition (featured soundwork), Cornerhouse, Manchester
2006 – Arcade, exhibition, Westbourne Studios & London Print Studios
2006 – Collective Rhythm, Cornerhouse Bigger Picture programme, BBC Screen, Manchester
2006 – Cruel / Loving Bodies, exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2006 – ArtMart, fundraising event, Para/Site Art Space, Kong Kong
2005 – Private View, exhibition, Duolun MoMA, Shanghai (recent acquisitions)
2005 – Lightsilver, exhibition, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London
2005 – Reassurance, exhibition, Triangle Arts Space, London and Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2004 – New Nasubi Gallery, exhibition curated by Osawa Tsuyoshi in ‘Osawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!’ exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004 – Cruel / Loving Bodies, exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai and 798 Factory, Beijing
2003 – False Impressions, exhibition, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
2003 – The Translator’s Notes, exhibition, Café Gallery Projects, London
2002 – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith: A Night of Video, The Central Space, London
2002 – Big Screen in Little China, projections, Home GMI Screen, London
2001 – Drawing the Central Space, performance and exhibition, The Central Space, London
2001 – New Releases: An International Survey of Recent Works On Video, exhibition, Gallery 4A & Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
2000 – Shanghai Art Fair, exhibition, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China
2000 – Test Lab Anarchy, projections, Arthrob & Fabric Live, Fabric, London
1999 – .com/and/see & bibliomania, exhibition, Global Cafe, London
1999 – Matrix 4, exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martin’s, London
1999 – Cities On The Move, exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London
1998 – DEAL, two-person show, 198 Gallery, London
1998 – Number Six, exhibition, TS2K, London
1997 – Domus: North & South, exhibition, Private Residences, York & London
1997 – A World of Difference, exhibition, Epping Forest District Museum
1997 – A Company of Strangers, exhibition, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery
1997 – Another Province: Contemporary Chinese Arts, exhibition, Watermans Arts Centre, London; Brewery Arts Centre, Gloucester
1996 – Box This, exhibition, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
1995 – Box, exhibition, Walsall Museum & Art Gallery
1994 – South Yorkshire / BT Open, exhibition, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
PUBLICATIONS
Artist’s Books, Catalogues & CDs
2007 – Golden (Notes), artist’s book (London: SPSL) and e-book (London: SPSL/Beaconsfield)
2005 – NEWS, artist’s book (London: SPSL)
2005 – Artist’s pages in Melanie Keen & Eileen Daly eds. Necessary Journeys (London: Arts Council England)
2002 – UA2, 4 CD book set compilation of artists’ soundworks, contributing artist (London: Underwood Audio)
2000 – DEAL, exhibition catalogue (London: BCWA)
Edited Journals and Chapters in Books
2007 – ‘Notes for Hong Kong, and other returns’, introduction and editor of themed issue of Journal of Visual Culture, vol.6, no.3
2005 – ‘A – Y (Entries for an Inventionry of Dented ‘I’s)’, essay in David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sonia Boyce eds., Shades of Black (London: inIVA, North Carolina: Duke UP)
2005 – ‘Outtakes’, essay in Dennis Atkinson & Paul Dash eds., Social and Critical Practices in Art Education (Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books)
Journal Articles & Reviews
2007 – ‘Translators’ Notes’, essay in Mieke Bal & Joanne Morra eds,, Acts of Translation, themed issue of Journal of Visual Culture, vol.6, no.1, pp.125-148
2006 – Marquard Smith, ‘Journeys, Documenting, Indexing, Archives, and Practice-Based Research: A Conversation with susan pui san lok’, Art Journal, vol.65, no.4, pp.18-35
2003 – ‘A – Y (Entries for an Inventionry of Dented ‘I’s)’, essay in Third Text, no.62
2002 – ‘Towards a Chinese British Isles, A Round Trip or 3333, Point 3 to Infinity: On Mileage and ‘British-Chinese’ art’ at www.chinese-art.com [1998-2004] vol.5, no.1, guest editor
2002 – ‘PIDGIN: interrupted transmission’, exhibition review in Third Text, no.59
2001 – ‘Trinh T. Minh-ha: Cinema Interval’, book review in Parallax, no.19
2000 – ‘Tailing TRACE/Y: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art’, exhibition review in Third Text, no.49
1999 – ‘Staging / Translating: Surname Viet Given Name Nam’, essay in Third Text, no.46
Exhibition Catalogue Essays
2006 – ‘Anthony Key’, commissioned for Anthony Key: From South China to South London (London Metropolitan University: Unit 2 Gallery)
2005 – ‘If You Were There’, commissioned for Mayling To: If You Were There (University of Hertfordshire: Margaret Harvey Gallery)
2004/03 – ‘Cruel / Loving Bodies’, essay in Cruel / Loving Bodies (Shanghai: Duolun Museum of Modern Art) and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Arts, Fall issue, 2003)
2002 – ‘Inglorious Food’, commissioned for Anthony Key (Bristol: Eddie Chambers)
1999 – ‘Anthony Key’, in Empire & I (London: Terra Incognita)
SELECTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & EVENTS
2008 – Locations: The Museum, the Academy, and the Studio, 34th AAH (Association of Art Historians) annual conference, speaker in the session, ‘The Archival Impulse’, Tate Britain & Tate Modern, London
2007 – Urban Screens, panelist, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2007 – SUMMIT: Non-aligned Initiatives in Education Culture, conference, participant, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
2006 – _Encounter, Curiosity, Method: The Making of Practice, conference, speaker, Tate Britain
2005 – Necessary Journeys, symposium, speaker, Tate Modern
2005 – trAIN (Transnational Art, Identity, Nation), research seminar, guest speaker, University of the Arts, London
2004 – On Being A Critic, discussion, panelist, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004 – Place: Aesthetics, Politics, Poetics, conference, speaker, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London
2004 – A Free State, conference, panelist, British Museum, London
2003 – Artist as Researcher, symposium, speaker, Goldsmiths College, London
2003 – CAA (College Art Association) 91st annual conference, speaker in the session, ‘Multiculturalism and Art in the Colonial/Postcolonial Age’, New York
2002 – BCAA (British Chinese Artists Association) Artists’ Corner artist’s talk, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2002 – Contemporary Chinese Art in the International Arena, conference, session chair and speaker, British Museum
2002 – PIDGIN: interrupted transmission, gallery talk, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2001 – Shades of Black, conference, speaker, Duke University, North Carolina
2000 – A Dirty Space? discussion, panelist, inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
1999 – Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties, forum, participant, University of East London
1999 – Matrix 4, conference, speaker, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London
1999 – Empire & I Discussion, discussion, panelist, Pitshanger Manor & Gallery, London
1998 – Vindaloo & Chips, event/discussion, diner/discussant, inIVA, London
1998 – A New Vocabulary for Chinese Arts?, seminar, speaker, The Place, London
1998 – DEAL discussion, panel organiser & artist’s talks, 198 Gallery, London
1998 – AAIAD (Advisors & Inspectors of Art & Design), conference, speaker, Nelson Dock, London
1998 – Identities, 24th AAH (Association of Art Historians) annual conference, speaker in the session, ‘Questioning the Pcradigm of Race Identity’, University of Plymouth, Exeter
1997 – Rose Finn-Kelcey, gallery talk, Camden Arts Centre, London
SELECTED REVIEWS & REPRODUCTIONS
2007 – ‘Chisenhale Biennale’ a-n magazine, November
2006 – ‘Golden’, Adele Tan, Third Text, no.82
2006 – ‘susan pui san lok: Golden’, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 3 – 9 June
2006 – ‘susan pui san lok: Golden’ , Catherine Moseley, a-n magazine, May & June issues
2005 – ‘Reassurance’, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 30 July – 5 August
2005 – ‘Reassurance’, Martin Herbert, Time Out, 9 – 16 March, no.1803
2005 – ‘Reassurance’, BBC London feature, 24 February
2004 – ‘On Curating Cruel / Loving Bodies’, Sasha Su-ling Welland, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Arts, Winter issue
2004 – ‘Cruel/Loving Bodies’, Xenia Tetmajer von Przerwa, Asian Art News, vol.14, no. 5
2004 – ‘susan pui san lok’, inIVA Digital Archive www.iniva.org/archive
2003 – ‘The Translator’s Notes’, Sara Harrison, Art Monthly, no. 266
2002 – ‘Elements of Drawing Blind’, Julian Stallabrass, www.chinese-art.com. vol. 5, no.1
2000 – ‘Ethnicities On The Move’, Diana Yeh, Critical Quarterly, vol. 42, no.2
2000 – ‘DEAL’, Mark Hooper, i-D July no.199
1998 – ‘Chinese Art, Manchester Style’, Robert Preece, Asian Art News, vol.6, no.6
1998 – ‘Susan Pui San Lok and Mayling To’, Paul O’Kane, Third Text, no.44
1998 – ‘97 Proofs (detail)’, (reproduction) Art Review, July / August
1998 – ‘DEAL’, Kate Mikhail, ‘Gallery Week’, The Independent, 21 July
1998 – ‘DEAL’, Helen Sumptor, ‘Galleries: Choice’, Hot Tickets, 25 June
1998 – ‘Dragon Rising’, Imran Khan, 2nd Generation, issue 7
1997 – ‘Dissolving Identities…’, Hannah Barker, Flux (Manchester) no.4
1997 – ‘Retrospectre’, Martin Vincent, City Life (Manchester) no.343
1997 – ‘Stating One Thing But Doing Another’, Urzsula Szulakowska, Make, no.77
1997 – ‘Distances, Dissonance & Diversity: Chinese Artists in Britain’, Sajiid Rizvi, Eastern Art Report, vol. 4, no.4
CONSULTANCY / ADVISORY WORK
2008 – CAS Commissions, Selection Panel
2004 – Arts Consultancy for ‘Chinatown Interventions’, Westminster City Council
2003-2004 – CAS Project (Chinatown Arts Space), Steering Group Member
2002-2003 – Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee Member, Arts Council England
2000 – Visual Arts Assessor, London Arts, London
1999-2001 – Exhibition Selection Panel Member, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
COLLECTIONS
Duolun Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, Film & Media Collection
OTHER
Since 2006, editorial group member, Journal of Visual Culture