OSCAR CHAN YIK LONG (b. 1988) is a Hong Kong-born, Helsinki-based artist with a versatile international practice focused on site-specific painting installations and drawing. Although he often uses ink for his immersive painted environments and drawings, and refer to East Asian mythology in his work, Oscar have very little training in classical Chinese ink painting. His image world and visual handwriting are from his own. Oscar has chosen such medium and topics for his own reasons: personal, intellectual, spiritual.

In Oscar’s recent work, he has been applying the holistic understanding of the human body and mind in Chinese tradition, and especially the connection between the organs and the fundamental emotions: fear, anger, anxiety, sadness, happiness.

Important group exhibitions: ‘Myth Makers – Spectrosynthesis III’ (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2022), ‘First International Festival of Manuports’ (Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki, 2021), ‘Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close’ (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2019), ‘Futur, ancien, fugitif – une scène française’ (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019), ‘Divided We Stand’ (Busan Biennale, Korea, 2018), ‘A Tree Fell in the Forest and No One’s There’ (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018)‚ ‘Crush’ (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2018)‚ ‘Mountain Sites: View of Laoshan’ (Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2016) and ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ (Kadist Art Foundation and The Lab, San Francisco, 2015).