Florian, Ma Ho Yin

web site: http://www.florianma.com

email: florianma@gmail.com

mobile : (852) 9747 7317

Florian Ma Ho Yin was born in Hong Kong, China in 1982. Video work“Les Demoiselles de
Avignon” was selected into Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009. In 2009,
Florian won LVMH Young Creative Artistsʼ Awards and completed his study in École
nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, 2010. He attained his BA (Fine Arts) degree
and Mater degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2006 and 2009.

Florian Ma has been creating design,painting, installation, photography, video and have
been exhibited in Hong Kong, Taiwan,United States and Paris. Recently exhibit his work in
“Hommage a Picasso” and “Bounce” in Paris.He participated in the solo exhibition "Op-
scape" at Para/Sit in 2005 and group exhibition "Away" exhibition at 1a Space in 2006 and
"Dear Yau Ma Tei" at Shanghai Street Artspace in 2008.

Florian has joined an artist residency program and exhibition to Portland, the United States
in 2008. Beside the work, Ma is the adviser of Hong Kong Art Focus to train and to create
exhibition for the youth from secondary school.

In Ma’s work, he turns urban scenery into conceptual visual elements and recreates
(fabricate) new optical images to represent time, space and color. Out of his interest in the
semiotic approach on manipulation of images, Florian engages with various mechanisms of
image building and duplication, in order to examine different possible interpretative
metaphor among the methods to be his own abstract language.
Education

2010 " École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France

2009 " Master of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University
2006" Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of
" Technology (RMIT) University.

Selected Exhibitions

2010" -CLARINS - Hand Painting Exhibition of Nature , NoBorders Contemporary Art.

" -Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial
2009" -Soirée Alberola x Jésus-Christ x ThonMa(ï)o, Atelier Alberola, ENSBA, Paris,
" France
" -Bounce , ENSBA, Paris, France
" -Hommage a Picasso , Galerie de IʼAssociation Le Pont Neuf, Paris, France
" -Mastermind , Hong Kong Art Centre
" -Light Creature , Fotanian
" -Reverse Reality-A detour form American dream to reality, OC Gallery
2008 " -Reverse Reality, WorkSound Artspace, Portland, USA
" -Dear Yau Ma Tei ; ) , Shanghai Street Artspace
" -Work In Progress, White@arcade Gallery
2007 " -Holiday Mood, YY9 Gallery
" -MegaBoxing Day, MegaBox
" -Merry Artists!!, Too Art
" -Minimum & Maximum, YY9 Gallery
" -Beautiful Strangers, Too Art
" -Fotanian Open Studio=(o-otter Studio)
2006" -Paradigm Shift , Hong Kong Arts Centre
" -New Trend 2006, Artist Commune
" -away, 1a:space
" -Art Exhibition –of 80th Clementi Secondary School, Hong Kong Central Library
" -nLove , Realm, The Path Café, Taiwan
2005" -Dual Solo, Phoebe's Vaudevillian Park and Florian's "Op-scape", Para/Site
2004" -My Dear OP, White tube
2000" -"Blue is Blue: A Contemporary Art Interpretation Exhibition Low Block, City
" -Festival 2001, Hong Kong City Hall, Exhibition Hall
1999 " -Art Focus VIII, Hong Kong City Hall
1998" -Art Focus VII, Hong Kong City Hall

Awards

2009 Selected Entries - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009
2009" LVMH Prize for Young Creative Artistsʼ Awards ,Winner 2009
2003" Cream Shoot to Orgin(al) Photo Competition , 1st Runner-up
2001" Merit Award of Hong Kong Youth Homepage Design Competition
" organized by The 25th Hong Kong Youth Cultural and Arts Competition
2000" First runner-up in “Travel.Plan.HK” Web Page Design Contest 2000
" organized by Hong Kong Jayceettes Junior Chamber