This year, we have received almost 600 applications for The Hari Art Prize, more than double the number of applicants for the inaugural 2023 art prize. In collaboration with A Space For Art, we are excited to announce the 19 shortlisted artists for the prize.
The winner and two runners-up of the 2025 art prize will be revealed during a special ceremony at The Hari Hong Kong on March 13 this year to a backdrop of selected artwork crafted by finalists. The winner will receive a HK$100,000 cash award generously donated by Dr. Aron Harilela, CEO and chairman of Harilela Hotels Limited.
Offering the likes of The Hari Art Prize and The Hari Chronicles, an ongoing series of conversations about art, design, culture and Hong Kong, The Hari Hong Kong makes for a gateway to art and culture. The art hotel is adorned with an exceptional rota of artwork curated by A Space for Art.
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 25 × 20 cm
French born artist and art director based in Hong Kong, Apolline Corrdier’s work distinguishes itself with bold, unexpected materials & color combinations while her love of fine art is peppered throughout with the inclusion of multimedia art forms and illustrations.
Medium: Digital print, light box, venetian blinds
Dimensions: 50 × 88 cm
Chan Ka Kiu is a Hong Kong based artist and her art focuses on the intangible and bizarre aspects of everyday life, portraying mundane scenarios as playful puns and honest confessions. Her work balances humor and pathos, leaving a lingering aftertaste that is both bitter and sweet.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 50 cm
Currently lives and works in Hong Kong, YY Chan is a self-taught artist who began her painting career in 2024. She creates dynamic, colourful and expressive artworks with varied narratives, from portrait to landscape and beyond.
Medium: Charcoal, soft pastel, musou black on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
Dony Cheng is inspired by the artificial nature and sense of alienation experienced in Hong Kong. In her artworks, she aims to evoke poetic emotions within the city and explore the connection between our senses and the surrounding urban environment in our daily lives.
Medium: Etching on mirror stainless steel
Dimensions: 59.4 × 42 cm
Weera-it Ittiteerarak’s work examines the intersections of identity, technology, and the environment. He explores the concept of “hyperimage,” blending physical and digital media to create immersive experiences that challenge conventional perceptions of identity and belonging.
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 75 × 55 × 55 cm
Gianluca Crudele is an Italian painter and designer based in Hong Kong. His works explores the idea of “control” as underlying tension to the human condition. It informs and shapes the interactions with our surroundings, our peers and ourselves.
Medium: Granite
Dimensions: Variable
Andy Ho focuses on three-dimensional practice, with installation and sculpture in various materials. His practice explores the essence and interactions between time-space and human beings, through a logical and conceptually oriented approach.
Medium: Purple Bamboo, rattan
Dimensions: 125 x 110 cm
Inkgo Lam Ka Yu apprenticed under Master Lui Ming, a bamboo steamer crafter in Hong Kong, and is committed to creating contemporary bamboo art that is rich in emotional depth and embodies Oriental aesthetics through traditional craftsmanship.
Medium: Mixed Media, Wasted Cutlery
Dimensions: 250 × 500 mm
Throughout his artistic journey, Vincent has passionately focused on raising awareness about animal extinction. His body of work encompasses various mediums, such as mixed media, sculpture, and illustration.
Medium: Upcycled wood, raw steel, gypsum, hemp rope
Dimensions: 150 × 200 cm
Jeremy Leung holds a MMus in Music Technology from Utrecht University of the Arts. His interdisciplinary portfolio focuses on audio/acoustic experience design and tools making.
Medium: Oil on canvas,
Dimensions: 120 × 100 cm
Mismatched elements in daily life always intrigue Livy to construct a world between reality and her personal fantasy. She recomposes her thoughts towards different incidents happening around her and amplifies her imaginary world as a form of expression and self-indulgence within her art practice.
Medium: Video, HD
Edwin Lo Yun Ting is an artist working in time-based media. Lo’s practice concerns the individuation of aesthetics, history and human sensorium through appropriation, fabrication, and digital objects through his exploration of sound, video games, and moving image.
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 40.6 x 30.4 cm
Karen Mai’s paintings have been selected for international juried exhibitions, including those of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Canadian Society Of Painters In Water Colour.
Medium: Red earthenware
Dimensions: 53 × 36 × 36 cm
Geoffrey Palmer is a Hong Kong-based ceramic artist. Nature, societal pressures, personal emotions, and the history of ceramics all contribute to Geoffrey’s oeuvre.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 180cm
Amy Tang Wing-yin was born in Hong Kong. Within Tang’s creation, one might view it only as a series of arrangements as well as different associations of shapes, however, the visual communications from these shapes are more than that.
Medium: Acrylic paint on Chinese silk
Dimensions: 74 x 74 cm
Gavin’s creative talents not only show through his works in interior projects, but also in painting and sculptures. In his paintings, Gavin has developed his signature style of using monochromatic acrylic in his depictions of human torsos and buddhas. For his sculptures, the beauty of lines and curves is exemplified in innovative materials.
Medium: Synthetic fur covered stanchions
Dimensions: variable
Courtesy of artist Nicole Wong and Rossi & Rossi
Her minimalistic multidisciplinary approach thrusts her work into the realm of an investigative medium through which she asks equivocal questions. They involve literal wordplay and the illusive concept of time, resulting in a poetic narrative of broken communication.
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions: 175 x 135 cm each
Wu Jiaru is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, installation, and moving image. Her work delves into mythology, cultural traditions, historical memory, and contemporary realities. “spillovers_i & ii” is an interactive work resulting from the artist’s recent reinvestigation/practice of automatic drawing.
Medium: Porcelain, “Packed in Hong Kong” tea boxes (1910s – 1970s), “Made in Hong Kong” plastic products (1950s – 1980s), “Made in China” plastic products (1980s – 1990s), motors, gears, LED lights
Dimensions: 65 × 120 × 120 cm
Angela Yuen highlights the symbolic meaning of her selected found objects and transforms them into her own artistic language. Through collecting manufactured objects, Yuen rediscovers the human warmth she was once used to as a child growing up in this city. “Neighbourhood” is not only a theme of her practice, but also deeply embedded in her creative process.
