Lie Fhung
(b. 1969 in Jakarta, Indonesia)

Through her art-making processes, Lie Fhung - a Hong Kong based Indonesian artist - investigates hidden layers within dreams, memories and human body (especially female’s). The way they work and affect us, their mysteries and wonders are some of the things she has been exploring in her mixed-media works. In this show she is showing a couple of pieces from her “Dream Archives” series and several pieces from her brand new series, “Moments. Arrested.”

Fhung grew up in Jakarta and studied fine art at Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia. She received many prizes and recognitions for her works as an artist from an early age. She has been involved in diverse fields, from graphic design to toy design, from various crafts to fine art. As an artist, she thrives in exploring new territories and crossing boundaries. For her, creating art is a way to introspect, investigate and explore things in and around her - and eventually, to share the results with the public.

She has had solo and group exhibitions in Bandung, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Vermont, and Korea. In 2007, her work was added to the Permanent Collection of the World Ceramic Foundation, Icheon, South Korea. In 2008, she received a Freeman Fellowship Award for an 8-week artist residency at Vermont Studio Center. Her resulting work was exhibited at the Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont. One of her ceramic installation works has been featured in the book “Contemporary Ceramics” by Emmanuel Cooper, published by Thames and Hudson, October 2009. Her most recent solo show “Corporeal Dream” was held in Jakarta in 2009, featuring works from her ongoing projects “Dream Archives”, “To Breed or Not To Breed” and “Hidden Growth” in which she effectively applied the result of her exploration of various media (ranging from clay and ceramics to paint, wire and soft metals, to digital imaging) and presentations (paintings, three-dimensional objects, artist books and installations).

www.liefhung.com

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