Selected Exhibitions
2023
2023. 3 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, V&A Friday Late: The Body Beautiful, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2023. 1 – 5 Look Like Myself Enough? Centre for British Photography, London, UK
2022
2022. 12 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, PAF Olomouc 2022: 21st Festival of Film and Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2022. 10 Queer Identity: Whiskey Chow (screening + Q&A) , Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2022. 7 – 9 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, On Queer Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
2022. 4 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Online (Boston and Worldwide)
2022. 2 Queeropometry: After Yves Klein, Club Urania, Cambridge Junction, Cambridge, UK
2022. 2 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, The Voices Film Series Presents: Queer Portraits, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2022. 1 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Film Maudit 2.0, presented by Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Online (Los Angeles and Worldwide)
2021
2021. 12 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Dream Babes HK – Real Fantasy, Hong Kong
2021. 11 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London, UK
2021. 10 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
2021. 9 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
2021. 6 you must everywhere wander 你必顧盼, Queering Now 酷兒鬧 2021: Dreamality, Online
2021. 6 A View From the Bottom, BUZZCUT Festival 2021, Online
2020
2020. 10 ‘From the Cages to the Queer Blue Sky’: WHAT CAN ART DO during and beyond global crisis?
A BORDERLESS Conversation Between Cassils, rafa esparza and Whiskey Chow, Video, 111 minutes, performingbordersLIVE20, Released online,
2020. 9 Do You Hear The People Dream?, Wysing Polyphonic Festival, Online
2020. 2 The Moon is Warmer than the Sun, Queering Now, Chinese Arts Now Festival 2020, Rich Mix, London, UK
2019
2019.11 (Exhibition) Future Lab, West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China
2019.10 M.A.C.H.O, Fierce Festival 2019, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2019.8 (Exhibition) Neo Hua Ren: New Diaspora in London, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2019. 7 A View from Elsewhere, Act 2 (Victoria Sin ft. Whiskey Chow and Shy One), Kiss My Genders Live, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, UK
2019. 5 Whiskey Chow – Uncensored Censored, UNCENSORED Festival, The Yard Theatre, London, UK
2019. 3 Salty: Queer, Performance, Party, The Printworks, Hastings, UK
2019. 1 The Moon is Warmer than the Sun (London Premiere), Artsadmin (Toynbee Studios), London, UK
2018
2018. 11 (Exhibition) Hidden RCA 2018, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018. 10 London Nights Late: Join the Night London Council, Museum of London, London, UK
2018. 10 Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House and Gardens, London, UK
2018. 10 Queer Migrant Takeover: Deeper Routes, Rich Mix, London, UK
2018. 6 (Screening) Queer Asia Film Festival, British Museum, London, UK
2018. 6 QUEER and NOW, Tate Britain, London, UK
2018. 5 MCR AFTER HOURS Whiskey Chow, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
2018. 4 Intergenerational Studio: Joan Jonas, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018. 3 Redefine: Group Exhibition of 12 Female Artist, Foundation Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2017
2017. 12 Tits and Tinsel 2017, Rabbit Road Institute, London, UK
2017. 11 Friday Late: Sino Flux (ft. Haocheng Wu), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2017. 11 Workshop – “ Receiving, Reenacting, Rescripting” (Collaborated with Erika Tan, Jess Hertiage and Michael Taiwo as part of MAP 3: Archiving ‘Asia’), Live Art Development Agency, London, UK
2017. 9 NSA: A Queer Salon, Sutton House, London, UK
2017. 9 Art Licks Weekend/// Archiving Fever: Here I am, There you are, The Square Gallery, London, UK
2017. 7 s p i t t i n g distance. UCA’s Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone, UK
2017. 7 Archiving Fever: Artist’s Confiteor///Live Performance///. Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2017. 6 Degree Show 2017. Royal College of Art., London, UK
2017. 6 Drag Asia, SOAS University of London, London, UK
2017. 5 Revolve Performance Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
2017. 3 Five Minutes of Your Time: Performance Works, The Doodle Bar, London, UK
2017. 2 Knickerbocker XI: Queer Dance Party, The Yard, London, UK
2017. 2 Handover. The Factory, Folkestone, UK
2017. 1 Tender Loin #7. Toynbee Studios (Artsadmin), London, UK
2016
2016. 12 Liberté D'Action – Performance Works. L’Amour, Paris, France
2016. 11 Performance Art Meeting. Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2016. 8 Lime-in-aid. Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK
2016. 7 Being Alone Together. A Particular Act, Crown Building Studios, Liverpool, UK
2016. 7 Live Import/ Live Export, Liverpool Biennial Fringe. High Park Street Reservoir, Liverpool, UK
2016. 5 Revolve. Performance Art Days. Uppsala Centralstation, Uppsala, Sweden
2016. 4 Live to Camera. Performance Studio, Dyson Building, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016. 2 CHEWY. Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016. 1 Work-in-progress Show. Dyson Building, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015
2015. 1 Final Show of Interdisciplinary Arts Camp with Gay Spot Magazine. Dutch Embassy, Beijing, China
2014
2014. 12 Final Group Show of Performance Workshop Led by Nigel Rolfe. Assembly Hall of Xiaozhou Village, Guangzhou, China
2013
2013. 6 Life Is Gay. UN Bookstore, Guangzhou, China
2013. 3 Feminist Activism. Loft345, Guangzhou, China
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023. 2 Curator, SOFT & HARD: Beyond Recognition and Queer Coding (As part of FESTUS 2023, MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art)
2021. 5 Director, Curator and Lead Artist, Queering Now 酷兒鬧 2021: Dreamality, Online
2020. 2 Director & Lead Curator, Queering Now (as part of Chinese Arts Now Festival 2020), Rich Mix, London, UK
2018. 11 Co-curator, Hidden RCA 2018, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013. 6 Co-curator, Love Comrades LGBT Music Festival, T:union, Guangzhou, China
GRANTS
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Round 17
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants - Queering Now 2021: Dreamality
Arts Council England Emergency Response Fund for Individuals (full appropriation, 2020)
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants - Queering Now (as part of Chinese Arts Now Festival 2020)
Diverse Actions New Work 2019 – The Moon is Warmer than the Sun
(Co-commissioned by LAUK Diverse Actions, Chinese Arts Now, Artsadmin, Chapter Arts Centre, Buzzcut Festival and Fierce Festival) LAUK Diverse Action is an initiative which champions culturally diverse ambition, excellence and talent in Live Art. The Moon is Warmer than the Sun is a four-part co-commission of new work by emerging artist Whiskey Chow exploring queer longing and transgressive desire through the Chinese mythology of a gay deity – the Rabbit God.
During the three years of the Diverse Actions project Live Art UK members submit proposals to commission new works and host residencies. The Diverse Actions Steering Group selects the projects to be supported with an emphasis on building a programme of projects that are varied in scale, location and theme, while sharing a clear artistic ambition. The new work strand, then, allows Live Art UK organisations to work with artists of colour in previously inconceivable ways.)
BURSARY & AWARD & COMMISSION & RESIDENCY
2022 – 2023: Sarabande Foundation resident artist
2022: New Queers on the Block 2022
2021: Artsadmin LAB Residency (21 March – 1 April 2022), Artsadmin, London, UK
2020:
· IETM Tromso Minority Ethnic Artists & Producers Bursary, British Council
· WFH Residency (Awardee 4), Artquest
· Digital Conversation Commissions 2020, performingbordersLIVE20 in partnership with the Live Art Development Agency
PROJECTS
2022.1 – Present Queeropometry
2018.10 – Present The Moon is Warmer than the Sun
2016. 2 – Present Queering Masculinity (Chinese Drag King performance referencing make up from Chinese Opera)
2012. 11-2015. 5 For Vaginas’ Sake. Actor/Play Writer/Sound Designer/Project Manager/Gender Education Tutor/Art Director. Guangzhou, China
EDUCATION
2020-2021 Royal College of Art, Postgraduate Certificate (RCA) in Art & Design Education. UK
2015-2017 Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice (Performance) (MA). UK
ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM/ PANEL/ ARTIST TALK
2023. 5 Sexuality Summer School: (Up) Against Nature: Whiskey Chow & Ro Robertson, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2023.3 The Body Beautiful, Panel Discussion: Whiskey Chow with Dominic Blake, moderated by Dan Vo, V&A, London, UK
2023. 2 Radical Care and Queer(ing) Time - Whiskey Chow, Faulty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2022. 9 Hunger Games – under the table cloth: artists’ panel, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Rich Mix, London, UK
2022. 6 WHAT’S THE MATTER? Queer Materiality and Communities of Making, Summer Research Symposium No.1, The Glasgow School of Art (online)
2022. 2 ‘In the hope that…’, RCA Contemporary Art Practice Work in Progress Show Lecture, Royal College of Art (online)
2021.11 Dragging the Archive (host by Louche Magazine), Bishopsgate Institue, London, UK
2021.7 Diasporas Now (online, as part of Degree Show 2021 event series), Royal College of Art, London, UK
2021.6 Queering Now 2021: Dreamality, Curator Talk: E-J Scott with Artist-curator Whiskey Chow
2021.6 Queering Now 2021: Dreamality, Cross-generational Conversation: Xiao Lu 肖魯 with Whiskey Chow (as part of digital exhibition event series)
2021. 5 A View From the Bottom, Queering the Boundaries of Arts in Sinosphere, University of Zurich (online)
2021. 5 Artist Talk – Whiskey Chow (for Contemporary Chinese Art module), Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, UK
2021. 4 Artist Talk: Whiskey Chow, University of Oslo
2020. 11 The “Queer Blue Sky”: WHAT CAN ART DO during and beyond the global crisis, Panel five: Covid-19 and Art Activisms, the 13th Annual Conference of Center of Chinese Visual Arts: The World, Two Metres Away (online)
2020. 4 Artist Talk – Whiskey Chow (for Contemporary Chinese Art module), Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, UK
2020. 2 The Urgency of the Arts Series: Whiskey Chow & Victoria Sin, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019. 7 Performing Gender, Film screening and panel discussion, CINEMQ, Queer Asia 2019, British Museum, London, UK
2019. 6 Performing Gender, Film screening and panel discussion, CINEMQ, Queer Asia 2019, British Museum, London, UK
2019. 6 Little China Girl: Exploring the East Asian & Polynesian Female Experience in the White Punk Scene, Decolonise Fest, DIY Space for London, London UK
2019. 4 Artist Talk – Whiskey Chow (for Contemporary Chinese Art module), Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, UK
2018. 11 Extravaganza screening + Q&A with Matthew Baren and Whiskey Chow, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2018. 5 Dialogues on sexuality and long in Contemporary Chinese Art, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
2018. 4 In Conversation with Whiskey Chow: Can Art Change the World? SOAS, University of London, London, UK
2018. 2 When an activist becomes an artist, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2017. 12 WHISKEY CHOW: FROM A FEMINIST ACTIVIST IN CHINA TO A RADICAL DRAG KING IN THE UK, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2015. 4 What exactly are we talking about when we are talking about women? Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
2014. 5 Screening And Q&A about For Vaginas’ Sake. Peking University, Shenzhen, China
ALTERNATIVE TEACHING EXPERIENCE/ WORKSHOPS
2023.5 Object, Desire and Story-telling, Sexuality Summer School 2023, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2020.9 A Sky Full of Stars: a body-positive workshop, Artquest WFH Residency, online
2020.7 A Sky Full of Stars: a body-positive workshop, Returning to Home, performingborders, online
2019. 8 Performance Workshop, Oxford Prospects and Global Development Centre, The Old Diorama Arts Centre, London, UK
2018. 5 Performance discussion workshop – Sexuality Summer School 2018, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2018. 2 Performance Workshop, Oxford Prospects and Global Development Centre, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2015. 5 Presence or Sex: conversation between theatre and modern dance, Tutor of Gender Education Community Theatre, Breaking Arts Festival, Guangzhou, China
2015. 1 Tutor of Gender Education Community Theatre, Xia Village, Zhuhai, China
2014. 12 Tutor of Coming Out Workshop (Forum Theatre), 1200 Bookshop, Guangzhou, China
2014. 8 Tutor of Community Theatre, Foxconn, Shenzhen, China
2014. 1 Tutor of Gender Education Community Theatre, Xia Village, Zhuhai, China
2013. 8 Tutor of Gender Education Community Theatre, Xin Village, Zhuhai, China
INTERVIEWS
2023. 4 Mission Magazine: Gender (US)
2021. 7 Looking into People’s Eyes, Yingxiang 映像 Journal, online
2021.3 In Light of Shadows 半影 fm (podcast), EP 7: Queer Art - Whiskey Chow in conversation with Hongwei Bao
2019. 3 Syrup Issue Three // POWER (London)
2019. 2 Interview with RA Magazine on value of art education. RA Magazine (UK)
2018. 5 MCR Live: HOLDING A MIRROR UP TO SOCIETY: WHISKEY CHOW (Manchester)
2018. 3 Shocking: The Performance Art in Suzhou. See Suzhou (China, Online)
2017. 7 Evening Standard Magazine （London）
2014. 9 Tender, Firm and Never Give up- Interview with Whiskey on For Vaginas’ Sake. Confronter Magazine (China)
2013. 2 Gay & Pound. City Magazine (Hong Kong)