Born and raised in Hong Kong and coming to the UK to pursue an artistic career, Wai Yi’s practice is inspired by the fusion Hong Kong culture and the entangled past between the two places, Britain and Hong Kong. Spanning across drawings, paintings, etchings etc. her works are often puzzles of surreal memories and mysterious spaces, inviting her audience to explore a unique world of perception and imagination.

Also, as an advanced Go player, Wai Yi is interested in AI. Since the rise of AlphaGo in 2016, she doesn’t view AI as a mere rivalry. With her illogical abstract drawings called “The Entanglement”, she challenges the omnipotent generative image algorithms. 

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Artist CV

Selected Exhibition

2026

• The Society of Women Artists 165th Annual Open Exhibition 2026, Mall Galleries, London
• Peirson & Peirson Contemporary Art Prize 2026, Peirson & Peirson Contemporary Art Gallery, Plymouth
• Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong (with Siger Gallery Stand:C01)
• CCA Galleries Emerging Artist Award 2026, The Long Gallery, Tilford
• RBSA Print Prize 2026 Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
• BTA Art Prize Virtual Exhibition

2025

• Cass Art Prize Exhibition – Staff Award, Copeland Gallery, London
• Small But Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London
• RWA 172 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol
• Summer Exhibition, Crane Court Gallery
• First Group Exhbition at Alma + Margo Hair Studio, London
• Summer Exhibition, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds
• Works on Paper, The Gallery at Green & Stone, London

2024

• Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn, London
• Salon Des Etrangers, Venice
• Wells Art Contemporary, Somerset
• Summer Exhibition, The Gallery at Green & Stone, London
• “Drawn In”, London
• “Fluid Realities”, The Gallery, Earl’s Court, London
• Summer Exhibition, London Lighthouse Gallery and Studio
• “Within the Limitations”, Ashford Visual Artists, Tesco Crooksfoot
• “Interrupt”, Norwich Queer Fest, The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich
• Print it!, Aire Place Studios, Leeds

2023

• The Graduate Art Show 2023, Woolff Gallery, London
• UCA Graduation show, Farnham, Surrey
• “KHARITES”, 30 Millbank Road “The Podium”, London
• “Residents”, Studio 1.1, London
• “Alchemy”, The Alchemical Art, Virtual
• “Art as a response to mental health”, Doncaster Art Fair, Virtual
• “Residual”, South Hill Park, Bracknell

Awards, Grants & scholarships

• 2026 BTA Art Prize Longlist
• 2025 Cass Art Prize Staff Award Highly Recommended
• 2024 Women in Art Prize Longlist
• 2023 Broadway Arts Festival 2023 Open Competition Finals
• 2023 VAO23 Longlist

Artist Talk

• 26/6/2023 Identity/Body, Inter-institutional MA Fine Art Symposium, ARU Cambridge
• 21/5/2023 Entangled in Here and Elsewhere, MA Fine Art Symposium, UCA Farnham, Surrey
• 29/4/2023 Crossing Paths, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

Education

• 2022-2023 University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK | Master of Arts in Fine Art – Distinction
• 2016-2020 The Chinese University of Hong Kong | School of Journalism and Communication | Bachelor of Social Science (Hons)

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