Sin Wai Kin, The Story Cycle (film still), 2022, Single-channel video, 17’07”. Commissioned by Somerset House with support from UK Government’s Culture Recovery Fund through Arts Council England. Image courtesy of artist and Blindspot Gallery.
Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness. Sin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2022 and the 2024 Film London Jarman award, and they received the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023.
Sin returns to Hong Kong this month to open their second solo exhibition with Blindspot Gallery, on view from 24 March to 10 May 2025. The exhibition features Sin’s latest video works which will be shown alongside face wipes imprinted with the make-up of Sin’s characters featured in the films. The exhibition opening is on 22 March, 3-6pm, with an artist talk (between Sin Wai Kin and John Tain, Curator of the Lahore Biennale 2024) at 4:30pm. Sin is also presenting a video work newly commissioned by M+, as part of the exhibition, “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation”.
We are delighted to announce that Sin will be joining us for an artist residency at HART Haus from 14 March to 6 April, 2025. An artist meet & greet along with a screening of their work The Story Cycle will be held on 29 March, and we invite everyone to join us.
Residency Details 駐留詳情
Date 日期：14.3 - 6.4.2025
Sin Wai Kin: Artist Meet & Greet and Screening of The Story Cycle 藝術家見面及作品放映
Date: 29 March 2025
Artist Meet & Greet: 2-3pm
On Loop screening of The Story Cycle: 3-6pm
Venue: 3/F Woodbox, HART Haus, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
Visit by appointment only 敬請預約
This residency is realised in collaboration with Blindspot Gallery.
是次駐留計劃與刺點畫廊合辦。
About the artist 關於藝術家
Sin’s current solo exhibitions include Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong, 2025), Canal Projects (New York, 2025), and Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim, 2025). Recent solo exhibitions were held at Accelerator (Stockholm, 2024), Mudam Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2024), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (New York, 2024), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, 2023), and Fondazione Memmo (Rome, 2023). Group exhibitions include M+ (2025), Lahore Biennale 03 (Lahore, 2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Toronto, 2024 & 2019), Somerset House (London, 2024 & 2023), Mudam Luxembourg (2023), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), and the British Museum (London, 2022). Sin’s works are held in the collections of Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Tate Collection (UK), the British Museum Prints & Drawings (UK), White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), Ferens Art Gallery (UK), the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art (UK), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (USA), Sunpride Foundation (Hong Kong), and M+ (Hong Kong), among others.
Sin currently lives and works in London, UK.
About The Story Cycle
The Story Cycle was commissioned by Somerset House London, supported by the DCMS and Arts Council through the Culture Recovery Fund. The video considers how cycles of listening, embodying, and storytelling construct our idea of human nature. It follows two clowns as they search for their place in unfolding narratives set in strange infrastructures, told by an unreliable storyteller.