Email: hongkexin0122@gmail.com
Instagram: nicole0hong
Kexin Hong was born in China, lives and works in the Netherlands, as a multidisciplinary artist, she employs a variety of media including, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to explore political issues on digital platform and sociology.
Kexin Hong is fascinated by the boundaries between reality and virtuality, as well as the real and the imaginary; how the institutions of power in the digital age deploy political images and gaze relations to progressively dissolve the perception of the subjectivity of the self. Her research is geared from the perspective of psychoanalysis and sociology, dissecting the gaze relationship between subject and object in the digital age, and questioning how the mechanism of self-exploitation is manipulated by the enormous production machine in digital platforms such as social media. In other words, she intends to investigate how political images achieve a fictional “authenticity” while affirming themselves in reverse.
Employee Experience:
2018 Graphic Designer Assistant, Brownie Studio, Shanghai, China
2019 Live Photographer, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2019 - 2021 Graphic Designer/Art Director, the Output, Shanghai, China
2017- Model / Performer — Gucci/Vogue China/Versace/Adidas/NIKE/ Ximon Lee, etc.
Press Coverage:
2022 Metropolis M - Review https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/49964_graduation_shows_2023_hku_ma_fine_arts
2021 Numero China - Personal Interview
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/K5yEvNbyeyJcpGXcRaKzgw
2020 The WOW Magazine Issue3 -Interview
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZLY-jAVKc/
2018 NYLON China April Magazine Cover
https://weibo.com/6298663816/GcQ8H4ttV
NYLON selects 99 young people with the most NYLON genes from the fields of fashion, music, humanities, arts, sports, etc., to represent Nylon and showcase their talents and collective spirit.
Exhibition:
2023 “ Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” ,W139, Amsterdam
2023 “ Staff Only”, Portal Park Online Residency, MaMA, Rotterdam
2023 “ Staff Only”, Portal Park Online Rescidency, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2023 “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” Refraction Group show, BAK, Utrecht
2022 Temporary Takeover Educational residency, Casco Institute, Utrecht
2022 Spatial Negativity and Hijacks through Hybrid Materiality, Summer Academy, Austria
2022 Upstream Gallery BYOB group exhibition, Amsterdam
2021 “Rear/Real” , Tproject Hangzhou Sangshang Art, China
2020 GLOW SHENZHEN 2020 VI design, Guangzhou k11, China
2019 “0am/12pm” ,Tiaoshui Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 “Rebirth”, Bananafish Gallery, Shanghai,China
2019 “Rebirth”, Fluid Borders Art Fair, New Zealand
2018 “Situational Anomie in 4’50”, NonDual, United Kingdom
2018 “Blue Apple” Nowness Art Film, Guangzhou K11, China
2018 Performer, “Asia One” by CAO FEI