Monique Yim

Monique Yim (b.1984, Hong Kong) is an artist, educator and curator who received MA from Central Saint Martins, London, UK. She engages mainly in performance, mixed media, participatory art and public/community art. Her works concern social, cultural, gender and minorities issues. She has participated in about 200 exhibitions, festivals and artist-in-residence programmes in over 30 cities across Asia, Europe and America. Her LGBTQ equality themed work “Queer Series No.10: Ungrounded Tango” was awarded the “Visual Art Performance in Public Space” international prize at Kassak Centre (Europe, 2018). She was selected by Feminist Art Conference (Toronto, 2020) as artist-in-residence, and Body and Freedom Festival (the only government permitted public nudity art festival in the world) (Zurich, 2018) as participating artist and lecturer, both as the first and only invited Hong Kong artist. Her important curatorial projects including “Performance Art Marathon” in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong. She has given workshops and lectures at various universities and organizations, e.g. Brno University of Technology, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, Central Saint Martins, Goethe Institut, The University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.