So Kwok Kin graduated with a Master of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003 and is Registered Architect in Hong Kong since 2007. Besides architectural design practices, So has strong interest in art, including installation, public art, sculpture, ceramic art, and jewellery art. Rather than limited on a specific art form, So reaches out to explore How a person situates oneself in time? He name his manifesto as 3M of Time: Present (Moment) / Past (Memory) / (Moral) on Future Generation. His approaches have been that by placing man as part of the nature – a notion so deeply rooted in traditional China and interpreted in his own words: “If I am a tree; if I am nature”–that nature can be rightly comprehended. So’s work has been shortlisted in major public art competitions, notably the Public Art Project TAMAR (2010) and the MTR New Railway Lines Art in Station (2012).
He is Founder and Project Director of Green Map Hong Kong, a community art initiative since 2006 to promote sustainable urban lifestyle through mapmaking with the support of the Sustainable Development Fund.
So Kwok Kin
EDUCATIONS, QUALIFICATION
Registered Architect
Member of Hong Kong Institute of Architects
LEED AP
BEAM Pro
2016: Master of Art in Fine Art, CUHK
2003: Master of Architecture, CUHK
2000; B.SSc (AS), CUHK
CV
EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS
2016 Dec First Solo Show “Humorous Field - Field of Humor” Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
2016 Nov “Hundred Years of Folk Legends” Foo Sum Wood Library,
Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
2016 Oct “REVEAL 2 Exhibition – For the City. For the Community. + − × ÷”, ArtisTree Gallery, Taikoo Place
2016-17 Hong Kong Exhibition, Venice Architectural Biennale 2016, Venice
2016 Jul Osage Art Award – Best in MA Show
2016 Jul “Everything must go 誓將去汝”, MAFA 2016 Graduation Show, Art Museum, CUHK, Hong Kong
2016 Feb “ 屋企 Uk Kei”, Group Show, JCCAC, Hong Kong
2015 Sep Hong Kong Week@Taipei “Past. Present. Future. Hong Kong
Architecture” SongShan Innovation Park, TaiPei
2015 JUL “Master of Arts in Fine Arts First-year Exhibition”
Department of Fine Arts, CUHK
2013 Dec “Revealing: Architecture as Threshold of Creativity” Artistree
2013 Jan “Ten Days Festival 2013” in
Polytechnic University, Innovation Tower
2012 Jan “Sugar Treasure” Exhibition for “Hong Kong & Shenzhen
Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, 2012/13”
2008 Jan “Fotanian” Artist Studio Open Day, Fotan
2008 Jan Exhibition booth forRLP, “Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale
of Urbanism/Architecture,” Central Police Station, Central
2003-06 Project holder and initiator, voluntary community project
“Green Map Hong Kong”, funded by
Sustainable Development Fund, HKSAR
2003-04 Public Artwork and Exhibition, “New Face of Heritage –
Installation of Public Artworks at Yat Tung Estate, Tung Chung,
Stage II”, commissioned Public Art: ‘漣漪”, Short listed Entry: “棋子”
2003 May Graduation Exhibition “Life. Architecture”, the Department of
Architecture, CUHK, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2002 Oct Friends of the Earth Exhibition and Car Racing,
Southorn Playground, Waichai.
2003 Feb Peitian Architecture Exhibition, Hui Gallery, CUHK
2000 Jun Exhibition of Work of Micro 3D Design, Hong Kong Arts Centre
1999 Oct Tibet Experience Exhibition “Students Experience and Survey on
Tibet,” the Department of Architecture, CUHK