Kinchoi Lam is an artist and picturebook creator based in Hong Kong and Cambridge. His art mainly focuses on the pursuit and discovery of wonder through intimate aspects of daily life.
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Award and Grand
2020 Selected for Illustrator Exhibition of Bologna Children's Book Fair
2019 Selected for Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrator Competition of Shanghai International Children's Book Fair
2019 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards
2018 Sir Robert Black Trust Fund Postgraduate Scholarships, Sir Robert Black Trust Fund
2018 People’s Choice Awards, Derwent Art Prize, London, UK
2016 First Prize, Children Picture category, Creative Writing in Chinese, Hong Kong
Selected Exhibition
2019 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrator Competition Exhibition, Shanghai
Slightlines, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston, Rice University, Houston, USA
2018 ALGORITHMIC ART: SHUFFLING SPACE AND TIME, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
The 4th Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale：Expanded Animation, Shenzhen, China
Derwent Art Prize 2018, Mall Galleries, London, UK
OPEN 「打開門」, Floating Projects 2.0, JCCAC, Hong Kong
《玩．想》, Form Society, Hong Kong
Pacing Around, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong 2017 Private dairy - 12/F Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
Affordable art fair London, UK
2017 Present Tense: New Urban Legend- Resistance of Space, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA
Expænsive Cinema: An FPC Production, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Open studio exhibition, Arteles Creative Center, Finland
2016 TOY as medium - Floating Projects Assemblage session, Hong Kong
Recurrence: two-person exhibition by Jess Lau and Kin-choi Lam, Hong Kong
Luxembourg Art fair, Luxembourg
Exhibition on the Winning Entries of the Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016, Hong Kong
Affordable art fair Stockholm, Sweden
Zine exhibition, Reading Festival, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong
Publication
2018 Everything's Around - Independent Publication
2017 Little Big Tram - Cotton Tree Publishing Ltd
2017 Toy's Remade - Independent Publication
Residency and Exchange Program
2017 Arteles Residency Program, Haukijarvi, Finland
The Key Vision of 2017 PicBookCamp, Yilean, Taiwan