Bouie Choi (蔡鈺娟)
Bouie Choi employs wood as a spatiotemporal medium to chart the destabilizing friction between a mutating environment, shaped by both physical and societal currents, and the collective human psyche. While her earlier works distilled urban imagery through repetitive rituals of preserving, pouring, sanding, and washing, Choi uses the volatility of the outer climate as a quiet metaphor to connect localized urban memory with a universal human condition. Driven by an unspeakable solastalgia—the profound ache of witnessing a once-familiar landscape shift—Choi’s lens has since dissolved explicit cityscapes, moving inward to map a deepened psychological topography. In her fluid terrain, she defines the sky, the grandest negative space within our sightline not merely as empty air, but as a ‘blanket’ enveloping our shared existence.
Here, in the era we witness, the drastic shifts in our outer climate manifest as a quiet restructuring of our inner worlds, rewriting how generations perceive, remember, and cognitively map a place. Through introspective vignettes meticulously woven from passing shadows, everyday life, and recurring animal and environmental motifs, Choi recalibrates how we bear witness to a dissolving reality. By translating these atmospheric instabilities onto wood, Choi uncovers an enduring resilience in humanity, demonstrating that capturing these fleeting moments is an act of reclaiming roots and securing a psychological sanctuary amidst a spinning world.
Bouie Choi holds a BA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009) and MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Those warm and unwavering existences’ (2026), solo exhibition in Basel Switzerland (2023), and in Grotto Fine Art Hong Kong (2023). Recent group shows include ‘Hybrid Nature’ in Alisan Fine Arts New York (2025) , ‘Three Tired Tigers’ in Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024-25), and Stanford University (2024). Her works are held in private collections across Hong Kong, Australia, New York, Boston and Europe and permanent collection in museums.
Solo Exhibition
2026
Those warm and unwavering existences, Grotto SKW, Hong Kong
2023
Crossing the nights Filling the lines, Grotto SKW, Hong Kong
We stay up late to behold the beauty of the star, PF25, Basel, Switzerland
2020
borrowed space_borrowed time, a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2015
The Breathing Room, Choi Yuk Kuen’s Solo Exhibition, Grotto Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2011
Comfort Terrace: Choi Yuk Kuen’s Solo Exhibition, Grotto Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Selected Exhibition
2025 BOUIE CHOI, CHU CHU, JIA SUNG: HYBRID NATURE, Alisan Fine Art New York, New York, US.
2024
THREE TIRED TIGER, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Like Water Like Shadow, Sonic-Visual Interplay, HK New Music Ensemble, Cattle Depot Artist Village,HK
Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, US.
Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices, Alisan Fine Art New York, New York, US.
Art Basel 2024, Grotto Fine Art, HKCEC
The Future is the past of the present, Mist Gallery, Hong Kong
Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan
2023
-Unfinished: The Invisible Condition, Wure Area, Hong Kong
-Ink Asia 2023, Grotto Fine Art, HKCEC, Hong Kong
-Node to node, 182 Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
-Art Basel 2023, Grotto Fine Art, HKCEC, Hong Kong
-’Where Great Minds Shine’ CUHK 60th Anniversary Alumni Arts Exhibition, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong
2022
-Fine Art Asia 2022, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
-Art Basel 2022, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
2021
-Art Basel 2021, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong
-Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian Int’l Art Exhibition–Hong Kong Return Show, The Hong Kong Fringe Club, Hong Kong
-Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition, Kyushu Arts and Cultural Center of Fukuoka, Kyushu Geibun-kan, Japan
-Grotto 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Grotto SKW, Hong Kong
2020
-Now Showing, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2019
–期中考, Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
-Theatre of New Gods, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
–木每雙生 – 文學視藝的再世紅梅, 1a Space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
–The Pulse of Nature — Lung Fu Shan Exhibition, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Center, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
-Time of XiXi, eslite, Hong Kong
-Together We March Forward: New Asia 70th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Hart Hall, H Queen, Hong Kong
-An introduction of Zit-Dim Art Space, Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan