Asia Art Archive welcomes artist Simon Leung to our International Artist Residency Programme.
During his residency, Leung will continue his years-long engagement with fragments from the history of Hong Kong as a basis for an extended meditation on his hometown. This includes a found photograph from Hong Kong in 1967, which he uses for Three meditations on a city, a three-part project on display in AAA’s upcoming exhibition, Countering Time.
Simon Leung is an artist based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. He studied at the University of California Los Angeles, Columbia University, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. His projects include The Side of the Mountain, an ongoing opera set in Los Angeles; a decades-long collaboration with the late Warren Niesłuchowski; art-workers’ theatre (ACTIONS! at the Kitchen, 2013; and ACTIONS!/ADJUNCTS! at the Hammer Museum, 2016); and extended enactments of and meditations on the squatting body, often in relation to Hong Kong, his birthplace. He is Professor and New Genres Area Head at the University of California, Irvine. With Zoya Kocur, he edited Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 (2nd Edition, 2012).
AAA’s International Artist Residency Programme 2024-25 is generously supported by Eunei & Ron Lee.
AAA’s Residency Partner for Simon Leung’s stay in Hong Kong is East 17 Shau Kei Wan.
