Norm Yip

Norm Yip (葉灃) was born in Canada in 1963 by Chinese parents. After studying fine art in Saskatchewan and architecture in Toronto, he moved to Hong Kong where began working as an architect. In 1999, he decided to transition into fine art and photography, following his deeper passion into his personal interests. He formed a collective called Melo-Melo Artist Alliance with several friends. It was then that his journey into art began. Oscillating between photography as a main source of income and painting as a hobby, he began to assert more attention and time to the latter. He has exhibited numerously in both solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, and most recently in Bangkok, Italy and New York. He currently resides in his birthplace province of Saskatchewan, Canada where he continues to paint and photograph.

Norm Yip (葉灃) received his Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) in 1984 at the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 at the University of Toronto.

EXHIBITIONS:
2021, ZeroPixel Fotografia, Group exhibition, Corpo/Body, Trieste, Italy

2020, In the Name of Summer, Popup Group Exhibition, Fashion Walk, Hong Kong

2020, Creation/Destruction: Art on Two Planes of Existence, Group show with Bowie Lee, Peformance art of "Offerings", Curated by Elizabeth Briel, Creative Kowloon, Hong Kong

2019, 心 • 目 | Beyond Skin, Solo Exhibition on Photography, Untitled Space Gallery, New York, USA

2019, 心 • 目 | Beyond Skin, Solo Exhibition on Photography, RCB Gallery, River City, Bangkok, Thailand

2018, How the Queens Stole XXXMas, Pop-up of Selected Paintings, Ozone, Ritz-Carleton, Hong Kong

2018, Clifford Chance Arcus Pride Art, Painting and Photography, Group Exhibition, Clifford Chance Office, Hong Kong.

2018, Community Business Charity Event, Painting, Group Exhibition, Hotel Icon, Hong Kong.

2018, The Other Art Fair Brooklyn 2018, Paintings, Solo Exhibitor, Brooklyn Expo Centre, Brooklyn, New York.

2018, Love & Inclusion, Aids Concern, Group Exhibition, City Hall, Hong Kong.

2017, Identity, Pink Season Event, Group exhibition, Era Barbers, Hong Kong.

2017, Embryo Collection, Graphite Drawings, Solo Exhibition of Graphite Artworks, Consigg Art, Hong Kong.

2016, The Wild Collecti...