Room for FAAM Residence Program: Vol.1 Introduction of the 2020 Residence Program

This newly set-up room in the Asia Gallery introduces “Now” and “Past” of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum’s Residence Program. We are planning to change the display a few times a year for introducing the activities of artists and researchers staying in FAAM this year and displaying the newly acquired works created in Fukuoka by our resident artists.
In the first exhibition of the series, we introduce the work by Hsia Aihua (Taiwan) from the 2008 program, Funkografik (Maldives), Chung Ling Jolene Mok (Hong Kong), and JUJU U (Korea) from the 2015 program, and Chok Yue Zan (Malaysia) from 2016 program.

2019 Artist in Residence Program
FAAM’ s Residence Program invites selected artists from Asia to conduct collaborative art production, workshops and talks with local communities. This section introduces two guest artists selected through open-call and one artist participating in our Support Program.

Han Sungpil [Korea/Artist]
Program Period: May to July
Han Sungpil was born in Seoul in 1972 and currently lives in Yongin, Korea. He graduated from Seoul’ s Chung Ang University in 1999 and in 2004 acquired his Master’ s Degree in Curating Contemporary Design from London’ s Kingston University.

Han Sungpil is an artist active in his home country of Korea and abroad including in Japan, having participated in the 2011 Yokohama Triennale and exhibited in the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 2018. During his residency at FAAM, Han will work on the second edition of a project first held at Busan Museum of Art. Using the forests and moss of Fukuoka as his subject, the artist will create large-scale photographs and display them in the city.

“Botanical Garden Project” 2018
Busan Museum of Art (reference)

Le Hien Minh [Vietnam/Artist]
Program Period: August to October
Le Hien Minh was born in Hanoi in 1979 and currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Art in 1999, Washington DC’ s Corcoran School of the Arts in 2002,
and Ohio’ s Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2004.

Inspired by women’ s roles in society, Le Hien Minh will create an installation made using traditional Vietnamese Do handmade paper. Collaborating with female models in Fukuoka, Le will create sculpture-type works in different female poses. Through her art, Le seeks to create a platform in which audiences contemplate the universal issues concerning male-female equality.

“Worms” 2017 (reference)

Cheong Kiet Cheng[Malaysia/Artist]
Program Period: May to June
Cheong Kiet Cheng was born in Malaysia in 1981 and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur. She is a winner of last year’ s The United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Award 2018, held in Singapore, in the Malaysia
painting category. The prize includes a one-month residency at FAAM during which the artist will create her artwork.

Cheong is known for her paintings that bring together themes of nature and femininity. During her stay in Fukuoka, the artist will research local folk tales and other traditions, and use these as the basis of her work. The recent heavy rain damages in western Japan has prompted Cheong to take a particular interest in the legend of Izanagi and Izanami whom Shinto legend attributes to having created the islands of Japan.

“Nirvana” 2016 (reference)