梁志剛 Michael Leung
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Artist/designer, writer and visiting lecturer (he/him)

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Elms as Method zine, public reading at Para Site, October 2024


It Can't Rain All the Time zine, public reading at halfcupsquat, July 2024


Pangkerchief, Post-revolutionary Worlds, 8th Yokohama Triennale, March-June 2024


Wang Chau Tin Yuen, Present Tense: Perilous Playground, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, August 2023


Witch Elms in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, April 2023


Artist in residence at IASPIS, Stockholm, May 2023

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2012-2022 works


Selected teaching

Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University (2023-present) - BA in Cultural Studies
Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2014-present*) - *MA in Visual Arts, MA in Experience Design
Department of Humanities & Creative Writing (2023-present) - MA in Creative Writing for Cultural Professionals
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2022) - BA Social Design
School of Creative Media (2018-2021) - Critical Theory & Socially Engaged Practice BA course (teaching assisant)
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2018-2020) - BA Creative Media (teaching assistant)
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2010-2015) - BA Industrial & Product Design, MDes Design Practices
Ravensbourne University London (2009) - BA Product and Furniture Design


Selected group exhibitions

2024
Wanwu Library, The Alternative School, Para Site, Hong Kong
Post-revolutionary Worlds (Pangkerchief), 8th Yokohama Triennale
Co-inhabitation: Eco-art Actions on the Climate Crisis, China Cultural Centre, Kuala Lumpur

2023
Present Tense: Perilous Playground, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Emergence: Eco-art Actions on the Climate Crisis, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing

2022
Dear OT, PRÉCÉDÉE, Hong Kong
Nexus Between Art, Practice & Research, Floating Projects, Hong Kong
Things we have left behind (gwobean), Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong
Disturbants of land, breath, sound: Aesthetics of Post-colonial culture, Seoul

2021
Publishing (to Find Each Other), Floating Projects, Hong Kong
And the Ship Sails on art.practive.research exhibition, JCCAC, Hong Kong

2019
FOOD: Bigger than the Plate (HK Farm), V&A Museum, London
Parallel Lives — Reconnecting the Tomorrowland, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg

2018
[en]counters, Art Together and ArtOxygen, Mumbai

2017
Beyond Freedom (r:ead#5 docu and response exhibit), Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
Emerging from the Rubble (The HK FARMers' Almanac 2014-2015), Transit Republic, Los Angeles
Present Tense 2017: New Urban Legend- Resistance of Space (Kai Fong Pai Dong), 41 Ross, San Francisco
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs in Bangkok (Almanac), Art Center at the Jim Thompson House, Bangkok

2016
Asia Kula Kula-ring, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
Urban Orchard (Almanac), XXI Triennale di Milano International Exposition, Milan
AMNUA International Project II (Very MK), Art Museum of Nanjing University, Nanjing

2015
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2015 (Almanac), Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata prefecture
Reprogramming the City, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes), Stockholm
Display Distribute: Mass-Produced Book Launch! (performer and book design), Hong Kong

2014
Can We Live (Together), Oil Street, Hong Kong
The Garden in the Machine, ASU Art Museum, Arizona

2013
Imminent Domain, Asia Society Gallery, Hong Kong

2012
Venice Architecture Biennale (HK Farm), Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice

2010
Fragments, Fotanian, Otter Studio, Hong Kong


Artist residencies

IASPIS, Stockholm, March-May 2023
Spring Workshop (HK Farm), Hong Kong, 2014-2015
Woofer Ten, Hong Kong, September-December 2013


Selected awards

2023 Outstanding Research Thesis Award, City University of Hong Kong
2019 Visible Award (longlisted)


Public readings

2024
Elms as Method, Para Site, Hong Kong (Thursday 3 October)
It Can't Rain All the Time, halfcupsquat, Hong Kong (Friday 12 July)
Red Pocket May, collective garden in Yau Ma Tei (Sunday 12 May)
The Keyhole, halfcupsquat, Hong Kong (Friday 26 January)

2023
LOL, laundrette in Mong Kok, Hong Kong (Sunday 5 November)
Canned Coffee, supermarket in Mong Kok, Hong Kong (Sunday 29 October)
Canned Coffee, F.A.T. Studio, London (Thursday 1 June)
Elms as Method, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm (Thursday 11 May)
We the Pollards, IASPIS, Stockholm (Wednesday 22 June)

2022
Odysseys, Rolled to Be Unrolled Again on Pang Jai fabric market, Hong Kong (Saturday 5 November)

2018
Salted Caramel, Moon Kee Store, Hong Kong (Saturday 13 January)

2017
Chinese Mop No. 8, Kai Fong Pai Dong, Hong Kong (Wednesday 6 December)
Restless, Kai Fong Pai Dong, Hong Kong (Sunday 19 November)
Chinese Mop No. 8, Soeng Joeng Toi, Guangzhou (Monday 2 October)
Fang Fang Shang Dian, Flow Books, Hong Kong (Sunday 29 September)
Restless, Kai Fong Pai Dong, Hong Kong (Wednesday 30 August)

2016
Fang Fang Shang Dian, Kai Fong Pai Dong, Hong Kong (Thursday 28 July)


Selected interviews

Still / Loud
Seeds of Awareness
sinθ #19 HIGH NOON 午
Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong
Learning from Artists: Mapping the Pedagogical Approaches of Four Artist Educators in Hong Kong


Book review

Autonomy, Conviviality, Indigeneity


Michael is currently reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

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(Updated 10 October 2024)