Ophelia S Chan

Ophelia S. Chan (b. 1985) is an artist currently based in Beijing.

Her earlier works consisted of interviews, home videos and photographs, exploring the idea of fiction in everyday life - romanticised storytelling, the performance of self, and the interpretation of truth. While she continues to explore ideas related to social participation and human interaction in her recent works, she focuses more on the issues concerning: the physicality of video works - her installation works present time-based materials in a way that requires the active participation of the spectator, as opposed to the passive consumption of moving image and sound that we are used to; and sexuality - through fetishising and monumentalising certain objects and iconic images that represent the repossession of power in an oppressed body.

2010 // MA Advanced Theatre Practice, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK.

2009 // BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK.

2008 // ABC Photography, London College of Communication, London, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2017 // Oyster - a duo exhibition with Oliver Haidutschek, C-Space, Beijing, CN.

2016 // Phantom Bodies, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN.

2015 // Tectum, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN.

Group Exhibitions

2017 //
You Know Where You Are. For The First Time In History, Unicorn Center for Art, Beijing, CN.

2016 //
Hypertext, 1House, Beijing, CN.
OOO, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN.
A Great Event Is in the Making. But No One has Noticed, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN.
Superfetish, Ying Space, Beijing, CN.
The Materialist Postscript, Galerie Philine Cremer, Dusseldorf, DE.

2015 //
Apartment Art, OpenArt Space, Shanghai, CN.
CODER, The Orange, Beijing, CN.
Embassies, Refugees, Manifestoes, Proyecto Casamario, Montevideo, UY.
Pavilion of Comrades (The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale), Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN.
0,10, Unicorn Center for Art, Beijing, CN.
NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Scotland, UK.
NEWNEWSPEAK, C-Space, Beijing, CN.
Beyond Borders - International Video Art Exhibition, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, CN.
Silence of the Sirens, 1House, Beijing, CN.
Rhetorical Materialism, CCA, Beijing, CN.

2014 //
Superfold, Intelligentsia Gallery,...