The Artist Room is pleased to announce representation of Kristy M Chan (b.1997) who lives and works in London.

Kristy M Chan’s paintings explore how environments form our sense of self. Born in Hong Kong and now living in London, previous works have dissected the uncanny and alienating sense of displacement one can experience when navigating between Eastern and Western cultures.

Chan’s assertive, dynamic and energetic paintings synthesise together dissonant, adventitious and sometimes surreal junctures she experiences, while simultaneously conjuring the dizzying cadence of contemporary life. Chan has likened the instinctive process of juxtaposing tones and textures as similar to the Japanese flower-arranging process Ikebana; which promotes the concept of negative space as of equal importance to positive space.

Rooted in autobiographical narratives, her paintings, which she names ‘stolen realities’, all depart from unexpected encounters she finds significant – often resonating with her for extended periods before ultimately inspiring a new work. ‘Whenever I'm painting,’ she recently explained. ‘The subject arrives from the emotions that I associate with certain events or experiences.'

Binge, her second solo exhibition with The Artist Room, will take place in October 2022.