Almond Chu - Beton

Almond Chu (1962, Hong Kong) is a photographer originally from Hong Kong. In his youth he moved to Tokyo to study at the Tokyo College of Photography. He returned to his hometown where he opened his own studio in 1993. In the same year Almond Chu was awarded the Asian Culture Council’s Young Photographer Award, after which he trained in New York. In demand by collectors and galleries around the world, the photographer is best known today for his conceptual series of large format works created using digital technology. One such series, titled Parade (2004 – 2015), features large-scale images of imaginary parades. The masses of people are composed of multiple repetitions of the author’s own image. In exploring the phenomenon of parades, Almond Chu places the action in places laden with social and historical meanings, such as government offices or corporate buildings like the Apple shop.

2024 – Parade/In the Future, Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan. Kazan
2024 – Parade/In the Future, Centre of Visual Culture Béton, Moscow, Russia
2018 – College Fernel, Photaumnales International Photo Festival, Espace Seraphine Louis, Clermont-de-l’Oise, France
2018 – Time Tunnel, La Galerie Paris 1839, Hong Kong
2017 – Mother of Water, French International School Project, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong
2017 – Landscape of Fabrication, Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liege, Belgium
2015 – Between Emotion and Calm, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia
2013 – The Bride with White Hair, Fabraicated Mortals, Dali International Photo Festival, Dali, China
2013 – The Urbanites, Prosperity Tower, Hong Kong
2012 – Future and the Past – Self-Portrait by Almond Chu, Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 – Flashes of Life, The Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2008 – Falling Poetry (a video installation work with Ann Mak), Lee Hysan Concert Hall, Chinese University, Hong Kong
2006 – Wet Wet Kids – Cosplay Generation, Shanghai Street Artspace, Hong Kong
2005 – Wet Wet Kids – Cosplay Generation, Hong Kong College of Technology, Hong Kong
2003 – Passonate Moment, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
2002 – Body Work, Fluid Living, Toronto, Canada
2001 – Nudes & Flowers: Viva Forma, Fotogalerie Central and Montblanc Gallery at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2000 – Traces, Wurth-Gallery at Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
2000 – Life Still, LeeFotogallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 – Life Still, OP Fotogallery, Hong Kong
1998 – Existence + Revelation, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
1994 – Almond Chu Portraits – Asian Artists in New York, Agfa Gallery at Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
1994 – Circle of Colors (with sculptor, Yin Peet), Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Hong Kong
1993 – Portrait of Life (with sculptor, Antonio Mak), Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1990 – Portraits, Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1987 – Isolated Object, The Fringe Club
1987 – Isolated Object, City Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
Lee Hysan Foundation, Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank Collections, Hong Kong / Germany
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Taipei, Taiwan
Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
New World Development Co Ltd, Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong
Hotel LKF, Hong Kong
Agfa-Gavert Hong Kong Ltd, Hong Kong
Collection Uhoda, Liège, Belgium
William Lim Living Collection, Hong Kong