Artist Bio​

Wing Sum Sammi Mak (b.1996) is a London based artist, born and raised in Hong Kong. She has held a Master's Degree in Fine Arts Painting at the University of the Arts London since 2022 and she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2018. 

Through the lens of feminine writing, Mak’s abstract painting reflects the movement of the body and emotional touch, embracing tenderness, sensitivity and ambiguity. The surface of her canvas becomes a soft landing point for unfiltered vulnerability. Formless, shapeless, and unapologetically fragmental, the blurred boundary evidenced the untranslatable and silent, embodying fluidity and incompleteness. Like a non-linear way of whispering, the initiative expression in Mak’s practice mirrors queerness, longing and intimacy, made possible for space to feel, to heal, to play, to renew.

Mak was featured by Financial Times, Vogue magazine, China Daily and other international media. She was awarded HKOP Award in Printmaking 2020-2021 by Hong Kong Open Printshop (2020), and participated in an artist residency at Hong Kong Open Printshop (2020-2021). Her works were collected by Louis Vuitton (2025),  AIA Hong Kong (2023), Hong Kong Baptist University- Academy of Visual Art Studies Collection (2018), and privately collected across Hong Kong, the UK, Europe, China and the US.

Recent exhibitions include solo exhibition The Dream Has Me (London, 2024), Art Central (Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong, 2024), The Elegance Of Solitude (JPS Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023), Alter-native (Ugly Duck, London, 2023), Phases of Matter (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2023); Solo presentation at Hong Kong Art Central 2023 (Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023), Highlights of 2022 Graduates in London (Liliya Art Gallery, London, 2022); Solo exhibition Dear Universe (HKOP, Hong Kong, 2021).

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Solo Exhibitions

2024   The Dream Has Me, Swanfall Art, London

2023   Hong Kong Art Central 2023, presented by Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong

2021   Dear Universe, Mak Wing Sum Sammi solo printmaking exhibition, Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong 

 

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Group Exhibitions

2025

-Arcus Pride Art Exhibition 2025,  Voices of Pride, Hong Kong

2024

- Playground, Swanfall Art, London

- Elephant In The Hat, Artbridger at Soho House, Hong Kong

- Clifford Chance Hong Kong Arcus Pride Art 2024, Hong Kong

- AIA collection exhibition, Hong Kong

- Launch exhibition of Artbridger, Hong Kong 

- Art Central 2024, presented by Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong

2023

- The Elegance Of Solitude, JPS Gallery, Hong Kong

- ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, presented by Gallery Exit, Shanghai, China

- Alter-native, Ugly Duck, London

- Phases of Matter, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong

- LOVE at Odds and Ends, Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong

2022

- Highlights of 2022 Graduates, Liliya Art Gallery, London

- Roll Call 1st Edition, Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong

- Featured Artist at True Global (London), by Inhouse Art exhibition at True House, London

- Church/ Factory, University of the Arts London Fine Arts 2022 show, London

- Unveil, Row Club, by Swanfall Art, London

- Affordable Art Fair 2022, Odds and Ends Gallery, Hong Kong

- Fine Art Postgraduate Show of the University of the Arts London, Camberwell, London 

- This Art Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London

- Fai Chun Exhibition 2022, Printmaking Group Show, Odd One Out Gallery, Hong Kong 

2021 

- Mixed tape, Painting group exhibition at UAL, London, UK 

- Up Close – Hollywood Road II,  by Nan Fung Group’s “In Time Of” programme and MUSTHAVEKEYS, Hong Kong

- Dream with my eyes open, Duo art exhibition, Hapi, Hong Kong

- Afterword I, Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong

- BOOKED, Artbook pop-ups, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong 

2020 

- Pressing On, Hong Kong Open Printshop, Online

2019 

- HSBC private charity auction, Hong Kong 

- 20 20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press Printmakers' studio, England

- Containing, Duo solo show, PMQ, Hong Kong 

- The New Art Now Exhibition, HKBU AVA Kai Tak Campus with Hong Kong Art Basel, Hong Kong 

2018 

- Good Times, Group Exhibition, Odd One Out Gallery, Hong Kong

- Academy of Visual Arts BA Graduation Exhibition, AVA Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong 

To Somewhere We Have Never Been To, held within the HKBU Academy of Visual Art Studies Collection 

- A Thin Booklet zine concept exhibition, Liaotistic, Hong Kong 

- Invisible, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong

2017 

- 20 20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press Printmakers' studio, UK

- Hong Kong Zine & Print Festival, Jockey Club Creative Art Centre, Hong Kong

- Disconnect to Reconnect, group exhibition at JCCAC, Hong Kong

- Plane Stories, group exhibition at Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong

- DUO, group exhibition at Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong​​

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Awards and Artist Residency​

2020 - 2021

HKOP Award in Printmaking 2020-2021, by Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong

Artist in residency at Hong Kong Open Printshop (2020-2021), Hong Kong​

2018

To Somewhere We Have Never Been To, held within the HKBU Academy of Visual Art Studies Collection, Hong Kong​​​

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Education​​

2021- 2022  MA Fine Art: Painting, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts

2014-2018 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

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Press​

[Magazine Artist Interview] 信報 Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong (JUL 2024)

[Online Article] 新潮流 M+, China (MAR 2024)

[Online Article] Etnet Hong Kong (MAR 2024)

[Video interview] Ztylez Hong Kong (MAR 2024)

[Featuring Artticle] VOGUE Hong Kong (SEP 2023)

[Online Article] Sing Tao Headline, Hong Kong (DEC 2023)

[Online Article] Tatler, Hong Kong (MAR 2023)

[Video interview] China Daily (MAR 2023)

[Featuring Article] The Standard 頭條日報 (24 MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Hong Kong Economic Times 香港經濟日報 ( 22 MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Hong Kong Art Central (MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Sing Tao Headline 星島頭條 (22 MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Sassy Hong Kong ( 21 MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Financial Times ( 17 MAR 2023)

[Online Article] Sassy Hong Kong (3 MAR 2023)

[Featuring Article] New Blood Art (2022)

[Online Article] 信報 Hong Kong Economic Journal (21 JUL 2022)

[Newspaper] 香港經濟日報 Hong Kong Economic Times, c1 (21 OCT 2022)

[Magazine] Ming’s magazine(2021)

[Featuring Article] The Stand News, Hong Kong (26 APR 2021)