NAME: Alannala LAU
BIRTH PLACE: Hong Kong
BIRTH DATE: 5.25.65
BIOGRAPHY
Alannala (an Asian contemporary painter) graduated from the Fine Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994. He won the Raymond Woon Creative Prize for his graduation work and has pursued painting as his career ever since. Since 1993 he has had eight solo painting exhibitions and participated in over thirty group shows. His works are being collected by private collectors, art consultants, hotels, Deutsche Bank Shanghai, the Town Imaizumi Museum, Japan and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Washington DC, San Francisco, Geneva and Brussels. He had been chosen as a winner of 2002-2003 Vermont Studio Center Freeman Fellowship and attended the residency at Vermont Studio Center from 27 October to 19 December 2002. This Award included a cultural trip to New York City at the conclusion of the residency.
Recently, Alan participated in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 which venued in Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan from July 26 to September 13. His latest commissioned paintings were made for the Shangri-La Hotel Tokyo.
2002, Mar – Aug, Programme Officer (Exhibition), Hong Kong Arts Centre
2000, onwards, Independent Exhibition Curator
1999 – 2000, Curator and Resident Artist, Museum of Site, Hong Kong
1994, Graduated from the Fine Arts Department., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1965, Born in Hong Kong
HONORS
2003, Shortlisted for the Chinese Artistic and Literary Realm Famous Expert (People's Daily Overseas Edition)
2002, Freeman Fellowship 2002-2003 [Winner] (Freeman Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, USA)
1997 – 98, Artworks were selected for three times in the program, Arts for Sales (organized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council)
1994, Raymond Woon Creative Prize (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
