Pamela Leung  |  Artist

Sydney, Australia

contact@pamelaleung.net  |   pamelaleung.net

EDUCATION

2016 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), National Art School, Sydney

2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Drawing), Sydney

2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), National Art School, Sydney

2009 Cert IV in Fine Art, Brookvale TAFE, Sydney

AWARDS

2025 Third Place - The 2nd Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize and Exhibition 

2024 Small Grant - Create NSW (for workshops delivered at CIW Gallery as part of Assembly exhibition)

2024 Finalist - North Sydney Art Prize 2024

2022 Finalist - HIDDEN Rookwood Sculpture 2022

2021 Finalist - Eden Unearthed: Art in the Garden 2021
2018 Winner - The 65th Blake Prize Emerging Artist Prize

RESIDENCIES

2023 Ridge St Artist in Residency, North Sydney, Aus (1 year)

2023 Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK (2 weeks)

2020 Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studio, Lane Cove, Aus (1 year)

2019 Factory 49 Paris, Paris, France (1 month)

2018 Longxiang Ceramics, Jingdezhen, China (2 months)

2017 Taiwan International Exchange. Community Cultural Development Center, Yunlin County Vision Association, Taiwan (1 month)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Weight of History Unpack Gallery, UK (online)

2023 Longing for home II  Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK

2022 Longing for home  Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney

2021 Shades of Red IV  Incinerator Art Space, Sydney

2019 Blossom Everywhere  SLOT, Sydney

2019 Shades of Red lll  Willesden Gallery London, UK

2019 Shades of Red ll  Factory49 Paris, Paris

2018 A Thousand Knots in Jingdezhen  Factory 49, Sydney

2018 Sorry I no understand  SLOT, Sydney

2018 Happy New Year  AIRspace Projects, Sydney

2017 Knot  Factory 49, Sydney

2017 Shades of Red  Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2016 Two-Way Street Jockey Club Creative Art Centre, Hong Kong

2016 Red Journey with Two Perspectives  Project Space B.25, National Art School, Sydney

2015 Not another bloody coffee shop  Articulate Upstairs, Sydney

DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Coffee & SerendipiTea Bankstown Art Centre, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 The 2nd Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize and Exhibition National 228 Memorial Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (April-June 2025)

2025 Fading Glow Blank Gallery, Sydney (March 2025)

2025 Infrangible Matter: Tracing the Elements Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney

2024 Enounter Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

2024 Hyphenated Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

2024 Divided Gallery Lane Cove and Artist Studios, Sydney

2024 North Sydney Art Prize Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Sydney

2024 The View From Here Yellamundie Gallery, Sydney

2024 A Tribute to Factory 49 Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2024 Passage of Night: Luminary Rising Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2024 Assembly, CIW ANU, Canberra 

2023 Home and Away, 16Albermarle Project Space, Sydney 

2023 Symbiosis, Dougherty Centre, Sydney

2023 Entwined Within, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney

2023 The Aesthetics Of Silence, Broadhurst gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

2023 Hello Nei Hou Ma? Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2023 Clouds, Power and Ornament _Roving Central Asia, CHAT/Mill 6, Hong Kong

2023 SLOT 20, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2022 The Paddock: Posted to Tokyo 2022, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2022 The Hum and the Buzz / Neon Playground by Chinatown, Banchō, Sydney

2022 Aesthetics of Silence, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney

2022 HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition, The McGlade Gallery, Sydney

2022 HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney

2022 The Hum + The Buzz, Neolite Gallery, Sydney

2022 New, MAY SPACE Online

2022 Parallel Wanderings, The Concourse Chatswood, Sydney

2021 Articulate turns eleven, Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2021 Eden Unearthed:Art in the gardens, Eden Gardens, Sydney

2021 Que des femmes / Only women  Factory 49, Sydney

2021 Metamorphosis  Gallery Lane Cove - Online

2021 New Beginning  Willoughby Council Foyer Art Space, Sydney

2021 FRACAS  Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2020 Northern Perspectives  Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove, Sydney

2020 Retracing  Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Sydney

2020 Annual Group Show  Factory 49, Sydney

2020 The Art of Defiance - Hong Kong: Revolution of Our Time   M2 Gallery, Sydney

2019 Production at the Factory  Factory 49, Sydney

2019 4AA4 Fundraising Exhibition  4A Art Gallery, Sydney

2019 Home Grown: The Tenacious Realm  The Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Sydney

2019 Our Common Bond  May Space Art Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney

2018 The Paddock lll: Posted, Studio Fontaine, JCCAC Arts Village, Hong

2018 Unseen  541ArtSpace, Sydney

2018 LIFEBLOOD  Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga, Sydney

2018 The 65th Blake Prize  Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula

2017 Another Perspective with Paper  Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

2017 Factory 49's Annual Group Show 2017  Factory 49, Sydney

2017 Yunlin Art Together   Taiwan International Exchange, Xiluo Old Street Cultural Museum and Beigang Culture Centre of Yunlin, Taiwan

2017 Supermarket 2017: Intimacy   Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Svarta huset, Stockholm

2016 Articulate Turns Six: What Next  Articulate, Sydney

2016 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition 2016  National Art School, Sydney

2016 WONDER + WOMAN  Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney

2015 Terrain – from two perspectives  Gallery Klei, Sydney

2015 The Other Art Fair  Central Park, Sydney

2014 4AA4  4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

2014 Live or Let - Live  Gallery Klei, Sydney

2014 Peculiar Compendiums  Gaffa, Sydney

2014 Strung, Drawn and Quartered  Jean Bellette Gallery, Hill End, Bathurst

2014 Drawn Out  Art Est. Art School, Leichhardt, Sydney

2013 Emporio Armani National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition  National Art School, Sydney

2013 SaArtchi Exhibition  Saatchi and Saatchi, Sydney

2013 s h a r e  s p a c e  Contemporary Exhibition, Carlton, Melbourne

2013 C3 Exhibition NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney

2013 Rise Exist Demise (RED) Contemporary Exhibition Nishi Gallery New Acton, Canberra

2012 National Art School Graduate Exhibition National Art School, Sydney

2012 Off the Wall NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney

ARTIST TALKS & PUBLIC PROGRAM

2025 Public Program: SAMAG's A Share Table Event for International Womens Day (March 2025) Gallery Lane Cove and Art Studios, Sydney

2024 Artist talk & Workshop: Encounter, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney 

2024 Morning Tea Celebration & Artist Talk: The View From Here, Yellamundie Gallery, Sydney 

2024 Artist Talk and Finissage performance: Coffee & SerendipiTea, Bankstown Art Centre, Sydney 

2024 Workshop: "French Toast is not from France". Coffee & SerendipiTea, Bankstown Art Centre, Sydney 

2024 Artist talk: North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Sydney 

2024 Artist talk & Workshops: "Yearning Paper" and "Weaving Community with Pamela Leung". Assembly, CIW Gallery, Australian Centre on China in the World, Canberra 

2024 Artist talk & Hosted a Cantonese Art Tour: Passage of Night: Luminary Rising, Art Space on the Concourse, Sydney 

2023 Panel Discussion. Longing for Home ll, Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK

2023 Artist Talk: “Bearing wound, honouring suture”, CHAT/Mill 6, Hong Kong

2023` Gallery Panel Discussion. “Hello Nei Hou Ma?”, Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2023 Sticky rice dumplings making workshop: Human Kind(ness) Dump (Ling),, Articulate Project Space, Sydney.

2023 Artist talks: The Aesthetics of Silence, Broadhurst gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

2023 Calligraphy, printmaking and AI Technology Workshop: Know Our Names, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney

2022 Panel Discussion: Longing For Home, Gallery lane Cove + Creative Studios

2022 Dusk Tour: Hidden, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney
2022 Meet the Artists: Parallel Wanderings, Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney 

2021 Paid PS Studio Visit: Para Site Hong Kong & Australia Council for the Arts

2020 Artist Talk Marathon: 'Northern Perspectives', Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios 

2017 'Red' at the Big Anxiety Festival, Human Library UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

2017 Closing Talk: Knot, Factory 49, Sydney

2015 Artist Talk: 'Another Bloody Artists Talk'  Articulate, Sydney

CURATORIAL EXHIBITION

2023 “Hello Nei Hou Ma?” Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2018 The Paddock lll: Posted, Studio Fontaine, JCCAC Arts Village, Hong Kong

COLLECTIONS

•  Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

•  Works held in private collections in Australia, the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan

COMMUNITY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2019 Interpreter/Performer - Tino Seghal: This is so contemporary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

2018 Interactive Performance - 'Every Pandiculate', Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong

2016-2018 Committee member - Factory 49, Sydney

2014 Assistant - Naomi Troski installation, Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney

2012 Volunteer - 18th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney

MEDIA

2025 Interview with Winnie Wong of SBS Cantonese and published on 27/03/2025

2024 Interview with His Ching Lam of SBS Cantonese and published on 21/02/2024

2024 Interview with journalist Ashlyn Chak, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 02/01/2024

2023 Interview, The Epoch Times (Chinese and English)

2023 Interview and Podcast, “My Australian Story”, SBS Australia, (Cantonese)

2023 Podcast Interview, 2Cr Radio Cantonese, Ultimo (Cantonese)

2022 "Pamela Leung's Red Line Story"  Alma Studholme for Garland Magazine (English)
2021 Exhibition review: Eden Unearthed, Artshub

2019 "Our Common Bond",  Art Almanac Australia (English)

2018 "Every Pandiculate" Daily, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (English)

2017 The meaning of red: why the colour holds such sway over us, Australian Financial Review (English)

2017 Interview: Tuesday Art Lunch with Pamela Leung, Arts News Network (Cantonese)

2017 Interview: Australian Artist Pamela Leung Taixi Residency, Yunlin News Net (Chinese)

2016 TAO Magazine, Vol 258, Hong Kong

2014 Installing with Pamela Leung Gaffa Gallery