Bouie choi 蔡鈺娟
Bouie Choi employs wood as a spatiotemporal medium, with a practice consistently centered on the quiet observation of “fragile existence.” While her earlier works distilled collective memory and urban imprints through repetitive processes of preserving, pouring, sanding, and washing, her recent practice has shifted from cityscapes toward more intuitive and introspective visual narratives. By allowing the natural grain and fluid color washes to guide her imagination – an artistic process of ‘deferred definition’ which is about the moment of seeing—choosing not to define an object, a form in haste, but staying within that gaze until its social layers, its physical essence, and my own inner experience and undefined reality begin to resonate together. From there she captures sensory vignettes woven from fragments of biography, dreams, and everyday life. In the unique climatic context of Hong Kong, Choi explores a “poetic texture of humidity,” treating moisture as a solvent for memory. This approach allows pigments to permeate and breathe within the wood grain, reflecting her unwavering focus on the human condition—navigating the delicate balance between unrest and solace.
She 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 work is held in the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Education
2009
BA Fine Art, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2012
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of London
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
Solo Exhibition
2026
those warm and unwavering existences, a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi, Grotto SKW, Hong Kong
2023
Crossing the nights Filling the lines, a solo exhibition by Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen, 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
Contact
hello@bouiechoi.com