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Installation view, Apologies (2012 – ongoing), Apologies and Other Regrets, Empty Gallery, June 8 – August 17, 2024.

Installation view, Apologies (2012 – ongoing), Apologies and Other Regrets, Empty Gallery, June 8 – August 17, 2024.

Installation view, Stabbed in the Back (2023 – ongoing), Apologies and Other Regrets, Empty Gallery, June 8 – August 17, 2024.

Installation view, Stabbed in the Back (2023 – ongoing), Apologies and Other Regrets, Empty Gallery, June 8 – August 17, 2024.

Installation view of De Anima in the 14th Gwangju Biennale, April 7 – July 9, 2023.

Animal, Ikon Gallery, 2021

James T. Hong, Apologies v.2016.2 at Jewish Museum of Vienna, 2022

The Thing, Empty Gallery, 2019

Three Arguments About the Opium War (2015), Art Basel Hong Kong, 2022

De Anima, 2021, two-channel video installation

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EMP, 2020, watercolor on paper

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Opening Closing Forgetting (still), 2018

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Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist (still), 2015

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James T. Hong is a Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker whose research-based practice interrogates the metaphysics of truth, navigating the intersection of epistemological, ethical, and socio-political questions. While best known for his experimental and essayistic films, his practice has recently expanded into sculpture. Hong critically traces the racialized power mechanisms that underpin processes of knowledge production and dissemination, and how they perpetuate historical trauma and contemporary injustice in America and East Asia.

Hong was awarded the Grand Prize (Taiwan Competition) at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2021); Art Matters Foundation Grant, NYC (2018), Best Documentary – Mecenat Award from the Busan International Film Festival (2018) and Best World Documentary Award at the Jihlava International Festival (2007). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery (2024, 2019), the Jewish Museum of Vienna (2022); and Ikon Gallery (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Bonner Kunstverein (2024); the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022, 2017); Center Pompidou Metz (2021); 12th Taipei Biennial (2020); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia (2018).

PRESS:

H.G. Masters, ‘Apologies, James T. Hong at Empty Gallery‘, ArtAsiaPacific
Chris Wan Feng, ‘Apologies and Other Regrets‘, Ocula
Shuman Wang, ‘Interview with James T. Hong‘, Artforum China
Mabel Lui, ‘From the Pope to Macron, world leaders’ apologies compiled for artist’s Hong Kong show‘, South China Morning Post

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