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Kacey Wong

Huang Guocai's experimental works explore the meaning of people, society and political life space. Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1970. In 2010, he was awarded the Artist of the Year Award by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and the Hong Kong Art Advancement Award and Excellent Art Education Award in 2003. Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, Master of Sculpture from Cursey University, UK, Doctor of Fine Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He has planned and exhibited a number of exhibitions with the theme of space and city: Housing Enterprise (1999), My Skyscraper (2000), Urban Space (2001), Free City (2001, 2002, 2010), etc. Since 2000, he started his "Free City" photography series, wearing skyscraper clothes playing the role of a building, searching for utopias around the world and publishing a photo collection of "Ten Years of Free City" (2010). The one-person tricycle house "Wandering Home" designed by him was selected to represent Hong Kong in the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy in 2008. In 2010, he drove his "Drifting Family" small houseboat floating on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour at the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Hong Kong. In recent years, he has taken his works to the streets of demonstrations and actively participated in social movements in an artistic way, linking art with resistance.

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