BIOGRAPHY
PROFILE :
Born in Hong Kong, Justin Chan was High School and University educated in Canada, where he obtained his degree in Visual Arts & Philosophy. He lived & works as a fashion/commercial photographer between Paris, London and Tokyo.
He was also a part-time lecturer at the HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE OF ART while in Hong Kong.
2010 saw him starting an agent for international photographers & production company for China and the Asian Pacific region while based in Shanghai.
And now, as a member of the IAVA INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS in Italy, he concentrates wholeheartedly on his own art/abstract photography.
THE WORK :
Justin comes from an expansive and technical history of working between many photographic genres worldwide. This experience has led him to master capturing the mundane as something of exception, giving him years of experience on how to work within the constraints of his own imagination. Justin’s work pertains to a strong and fluent sense of composition capturing the nuances of detail in mood, colour and performance. And with his own special visual language, he now continues to break traditional photographic boundaries, and discovers fresh ideas in expressing his world view.
CV
EXHIBITIONS :
1990 GITANES EXHIBITION / PARIS FRANCE
1991 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL DE LA MODE / DEAUVILLE/
TROUVILLE, FRANCE
1992 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL DE LA MODE / BUDAPEST
HUNGARY
1993 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL DE LA MODE / KOBE JAPAN
1994 ILFORD PHOTOGRAPHER EXHIBITION / HONG KONG
1995 PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER EXHIBITION / HONG
KONG
1997 ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHER SHOW / LONDON
UK
1998 ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHER SHOW / LONDON
UK
1999 “DR. MARTIN” SOLO EXHIBITION / LONDON UK
2000 INTERNATIONAL HAIR AND BEAUTY PHOTO
EXHIBITION / TOKYO JAPAN
2003 SHANGHAI ART EXHIBITION / SHANGHAI CHINA
2006 JOINT EXHIBITION (“CHANCE”) / AGNES B. / LONDON
UK
2009 SOLO EXHIBITION( “KILL JILL”) / TOKYO JAPAN
2009 WINNER OF SHANGHAI “THE 3RD KIND” ADVERTISING
SHOOTING AWARD/ SHANGHAI
2010 EXHIBITION (“MAGNIFICENT SEVEN”) / SHEN
ZHEN CHINA
2010 EXHIBITION, GROUP SHOW / CHENGDU CHINA
2010 EXHIBITION, GROUP SHOW / BEIJING CHINA
2010 EXHIBITION, DIGITAL N PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARD
SHOW / MESEUM DE ART CHIANCIANO / TERME ITALY
2010 FINE ART ASIA 2010 / HONG KONG
2011 BECAME SPOKE-PERSON FOR NIKON/ CHINA
2011 EXHIBITION (“SEEN & BE SEEN”)/ HONG KONG
2022 BECAME MEMBER OF “IAVA”- THE INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS / ITALY
2022 BECAME REPRESENTED ARTIST OF “MONAT GALLERY” /
MADRID / SPAIN
2022 BECAME REGISTERED ARTIST OF “ARTSY” AND
“ARTSPER” – THE 2 BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL ON-LINE
ART SALES / AUCTION COMPANIES
2022 THE 26TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL “INNSBRUCK”
ART FAIR” / AUSTRIA
2022 THE BRUSSELS ART FAIR / BRUSSELS / BELGIUM
2022 M.A.D.S., INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART
GALLERY -“ADENOCROMO FOR DINNER” ART FAIR /
MILAN, ITALY/ FUERTEVENTURA, CANARY ISLAND,
SPAIN
2022 M.A.D.S., INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART
GALLERY – “BRAIN CAKE”/ LA PEDRERA BY
GAUDI, UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE / SPAIN
2023 M.A.D.S., INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART
GALLERY – VIRTUAL GALLERY “METAVERSE”
2023 Milan art fair / “UNFAIR” / Milan Italy
2023 M.A.D.S., INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY GALLER /
“ARTOXIC” / VITUAL GALLERY METAVERSE
2023 GROUP SHOW / “The Dialogue” / MONAT GALLERY /
MADRID SPAIN
2023 SOLO EXHIBITION / MONAT GALLER/ MARID SPAIN
STATEMENT
JUSTIN CHAN – ARTISTIC STATEMENT :
We all participate in in a collective consciousness around us, which dictates and governs our shared common reality.
My photography work itself no longer define a scenery, or an object as we know it. It no longer represents anything at all. It has become a new horizon of artistic impressions.
The works allow us alternative ways of seeing everyday objects as something we have never seen before. In fact, they have provided us the freedom of seeing the usual everyday objects as anything we want to see they as, according to our imagination, our participating power of visualization, & our own individual life experiences…. And in the end, we come to the discovery that these different realities already exist within our collective consciousness, unconsciously.
I wish that the audiences would come away with an expanded consciousness of the world around each one of us, and the notion that the power of visualisation can no doubt change our identities with and the world with-in & with-out. Freedom is the power of self-determination attributed to the free will; the quality of being independent of the domination and imprisonment of an enforced limited reality, thus the power to change our world.
