Solo Exhibition – In Transition

Solo Exhibition: In Transition
Exhibition: January 2nd to February 2nd 2020
Vernissage: Thursday, January 16th 2020 from 5 – 8pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 16th 2020 at 5:00pm
Gallery: Downtown Gallery at Ottawa School of Art
Address: 5 George Street , Ottawa,  Ontaria, K1N8W5

Free to the public – Everyone welcome

A hyperreal vision of our near future, exploring how humans and robots coexist and bind together with one destiny. Through performative gestures and expressions by creating different interactions between a robot and the artist herself, this work provides an alternative perspective for a better understanding of ourselves, our bodies, our emotions, our responsibilities, and our relations with non-human others. In Transition also raises questions about binary system, about how to challenge boundaries of self/other, culture/nature, and human/machine, moving beyond traditional gender, feminism, and politics, creating a new social relation that expands and amplifies humanity.

For more info about the work, please visit here
For more info about the exhibition, please visit here

Solo Exhibition – THEY

Solo Exhibition: THEY
Gallery: Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City
Date: May 31 – June 23, 2019
Opening: May 31 at 7:00pm
Address: 345 rue du Pont, Quebec, Quebec G1K 6M4

They est une installation vidéo à quatre chaînes qui emmène le public dans les mondes de quatre femmes pour examiner de près leur vie quotidienne ritualisée, leurs obsessions, leurs tiraillements et leur détermination à être ce qu’elles sont. Les quatre femmes sont différentes, mais se ressemblent: elles vivent des transitions difficiles, des relations ambivalentes et des désirs qui les troublent, tout en célébrant leur propre existence de manière subversive, et même presque méditative. Le titre de l’installation est dérivé du pronom neutre anglais they. Dans cette vidéo, they est à la fois singulier et pluriel, désignant les femmes comme des individus uniques qui sont pluriels, mais dont les corps ont été marqués autrement.

Dans ce vidéo à quatre perspectives, l’artiste présente le corps de la femme comme un endroit de transgression et de resistance socio-politique. En employant des gestes symboliques, un rythme poétique et des répétitions, Dong révèle une réflexion complexe sur la médiation des identités à travers les écrans les performances et sur la manière dont elles nous parviennent avec le temps. Cette installation vidéo multicanal s’inspire des traditions du cinéma et de la performance pour tenter de créer de nouveaux récits visuels qui permettent au public de faire directement l’expérience de la dimension temporelle du corps, tout en fournissant une clé pour comprendre le pouvoir corporel à l’ère numérique d’aujourd’hui.

Solo Exhibition – In Transition
I am very pleased to announce that I have a solo exhibition, In Transition,  at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, September 29-Nov 3, 2018.
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In Transition is a vision of the near future of human relations with robots, exploring how humans and robots co-exist and bind together with one destiny. While our society continues to struggle with modernity, questions of “Where are we?” and “Where are we going?” still have not been answered, and our co-existence/co-presence with robots demonstrates a fundamental transformation in human civilization. The exhibition draws from the tradition of performance, striving to provide a key for a better understanding of ourselves, our bodies, our emotions, and our relations with non-human others. In Transition also raises questions about how to challenge the boundaries of self/other, culture/nature, and human/machine, moving beyond traditional gender, feminism, and politics, creating a new social relation that expands and amplifies humanity.

Solo Exhibition – DongGang Museum of Photography
I am very pleased announce that I will have a solo exhibition at DongGang Museum of Photography, Gangwon-do, Korea, as part of DongGang International Photo Festival.  It is my great honour to be selected as “ The Artist of The Year,” by DongGang International Photo Festival. And my work “ Mother” will be exhibited in the museum, June 14-Sept 21, 2018.
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“Mother” consists of 14 photographs and a video dedicating to my absent mother. Absence is a form of presence. Since my mother passed away, I went back to China where I was born and found 14 mothers who are my mother’s close friends and relatives. I bought a pair of floral embroidered traditional Chinese shoes to each mother as a gift, because my mother always loved the floral embroidered shoes. We took photographs together at each mother’s home where the mother wears the new shoes and I wear her cloth. After taking photos with each mother, I invited all mothers to come together for a group portrait.

This work seeks consolation and restores narrations of the past through visual expression of memories and loss, exploring relationship between life and death, human existence and universal emotions. I use re-enactment as a method of revisiting and re-imagining past to create scenarios of my mother visiting her birth place and meeting her childhood friends. Through using my own body to present my mother’s present, I reunite with my mother and become her. This work reveals how the mother/daughter relationship is experienced as a site of empowerment, and how memories cross time and space to create a new experience that not only transcends life and death, bridges past and present, but also transforms emotions and realities. “Mother” is an embodiment of a melancholic longing for an unrecoverable past and a memento mori: a reminder of the inexorable passage of time and the beautiful transience of human life.

Solo Exhibition – Modern Fuel

I am very pleased to announce that I will have a solo exhibition, The Drift Latitudes,  at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada, on March 17-April 28, 2018. My two new works ” They” and ” Mother” is exhibited there.

Opening: 7:00pm-9:00pm, March 17, 2018
Exhibition: March 17-April 28, 2018
Gallery: Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
Address: Suite 305, 370 King Street W., Kingston, Ontario, Canada.   K7L 2X4

For more info about my work They, Mother and the exhibition, please visit

Artist Talk- CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes) La Esmeralda
 I am pleased to announce that I will give an artist talk at CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes)  La Esmeralda , Mexico City, on Feb 8, 2018.Time: Feb 8, 2018 at 4:00 pm -6:00 pm
Address: Av. Río Churubusco No. 79 Esq. Calzada de Tlalpan Col. Country Club Del. Coyoacán CP. 04220
Mexico City, Mexico 04220
Solo Exhibition – Visual Poetics of Shame at aceart inc. Winnipeg

My solo exhibition, ” Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame,” will be held at aceart inc., Winnipeg, Canada

Exhibition Date: Nov 4th – Dec 9th, 2016
Opening: Nov 4th at 7:00p
Address: 2-290 McDermot Avenue , Winnipeg, CA

Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame is a solo exhibition that examines the visual culture of shame in relation to the body, subjects and power in contemporary art. Over the past three years, Chun Hua Catherine Dong has been creating this series of works that integrates performance, photography, video, and installation. Her focus is exploring the visual culture of shame associated with vulnerability in its personal and socio-political dimensions, deconstructing the experience of shame through gestures, moments, and audience participation. In her practice, she considers feminism, globalization, and psychoanalysis, positioning shame as a feminist strategy of resistance – an ethical practice that seeks altered states of consciousness that possibly leads to restore dignity and humanity.

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