Karry Hon (she/her) is a Hong Kong visual artist specializing in punch needling and hand embroidery. Hon graduated from Simon Fraser University and had been living in Vancouver for seven years. She searches for discourse and harmony between Hong Kong and international art practices, between art and culture, and between art and diverse disciplines. Outside of the studio, she has training experience in administrative tasks, archive management, art sales, exhibition and event production in contemporary art galleries and organizations.
Karry Hon’s visual approach moves through her identity, home, community, and world. She searches for bodies and objects relationships while making links between domestic signs, psychotherapy, and healing. Their associations have become images of herself, acting as a shield against the complexities of the outside world. Banality and reminiscence are silhouettes and by tracing these concepts, she finds other ways of seeing that enhance the tensions between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Her works encode subtle and mundane occasions alongside everyday and intimate objects by borrowing and combining multicultural art methods. These conventional instants contain a contemporary manner speaking to our tedious and repetitive intricate networks of experiences through the cut-out representation of living entities and their silenced expressions.
EDUCATION
2018-2023
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)
BFA Major in Visual Art
CONSIGNMENT
2024
Hong Kong Arts Centre-The Art Shop
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Apr 19-May 6
BFA Graduating Exhibition: Dream Safely
Group Exhibition
Artwork: Silhouette VII
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (Vancouver@Audain Gallery)
2022 Mar 22-Apr 4
BFA Project 2022: Everyone Is Happening Always
Group Exhibition
Artwork: Silhouette IV
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (Vancouver@Audain Gallery)
2022 Jan
Collective
Online Collaboration & Exhibition (Arts Magazine Issue: vol.25)
Artwork: Gravity Tribe
Withintensions (Vancouver)
2020 May
Photography Show: Rediscover The Beauty Of Home
Group Exhibition
Artwork: Quarantine,
Lumenvisum (Hong Kong@Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre)
AWARDS
2023 Jun
F.W. Sullivan Visual Arts Award
Issued by Simon Fraser University
2023 Jan
Undergraduate Open Scholarship
Issued by Simon Fraser University
2022 Sep
Undergraduate Open Scholarship
Issued by Simon Fraser University
2022 Jun
Volunteers Of The Burnaby Art Gallery Award In Visual Arts
Issued by SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
2022 Jan
Dean’s Honour Roll For Fall 2021
Issued by SFU Faculty of Communication, Art And Technology
2021 Jan
Dean’s Honour Roll For Fall 2020
Issued by SFU Faculty of Communication, Art And Technology