Henry Tsang

Henry Tsang’s projects have been exhibited internationally, incorporating digital media, video, photography, language and sculptural elements in the exploration of the relationship between the public, community and identity in the new global order. Projects in the public sphere range from community-based curatorial and engagement practices to permanent commissioned artworks. Welcome to the Land of Light is a 100 metre-long installation located on the seawall handrail along Vancouver's False Creek. He has also worked with artists’ collectives which produce temporary public art installations on shared political concerns, including The Association for Noncommercial Culture and Collective Echoes Youth Public Artists Collective, and has mentored many young artists through various programs. Video installations such as Orange County, 2004, and Olympus, 2006, shot in California, Beijing, Torino and Vancouver, examine overlapping urban and socio-political spaces; and Napa North, 2008, looks at the relationship between wine, real estate and cultural translation in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. His curatorial projects (Self Not Whole: Cultural Identity & Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, 1991; Racy Sexy: Race, Culture and Sexuality, 1993; and City at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997, 1997) span the local to the international. Henry received the VIVA Award in 1993 and is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.