Gayle Chong Kwan
Gayle Chong Kwan (b. Edinburgh) is an award-winning artist of Scottish and Chinese-Mauritian heritage who works internationally at the intersection of historical, material, and archival research and fine art practice. She explores complex, momentary, sensory, and unacknowledged histories, the contested nature of collections and archives, decolonising strategies, ecological degradation, and ritual, virtual, and material in relation to the human and more than human. Her work is characterised by an expanded and embodied approach to photography, collage, installation, video, performance, participation, and large-scale works in the public realm.
Chong Kwan has degrees in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University, Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, an MSC in Communication from the University of Stirling, an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and completed a practice-led PhD in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art on her methodology of Imaginal Travel. Recent projects and exhibitions have included Oneiric Archaeologies (2025) an Artist Fellowship with Avebury Papers AHRC project exploring XR, archaeology and dreams at Avebury UNESCO World Heritage Site, I am the Thames and the Thames is Me (2024) at Science Gallery London, A Pocket Full of Sand (2024) co-commissioned by John Hansard Gallery and Film and Video Umbrella, The Taotie (2024) at Compton Verney, and Cyclops (2024) at Fondation Valmont in Venice.
