Man Mei To (b. 1990, Guangdong and raised in Hong Kong; lives and works in Hong Kong and London) Man Mei-To’s artworks explore urban vistas and life by observing the intimacy of the body. Her aim is to raise awareness of the existence of all kinds of beings, as well as the connections between their fragility and silence by cloning, reconstructing or quantifying elements found in everyday life. This close attention to the micro-level of daily living allows her work to scale outward, tracing personal history in parallel with social development, observing human mobility alongside land transformation and the disorienting nature of labour. These themes inform her ongoing exploration of fluidity and tension in artmaking, particularly through the conceptual lens of “liquidity”.
The role of the body, especially the hands, is a vessel of unspoken meaning. Body language in her work reveals what words cannot: it conveys tradition, social change, and personal history. Through gesture and material, she mirrors the inner life of the subject and the nature of work itself.
Man received a BA in painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in 2017 and obtained her MFA in sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2024. She has been exhibited in international institutions including the Para Site (2025); Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and Shanghai (2025); Ubicua Gallery, London (2025); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2024); Tangent Projects, Barcelona (2024); Kyushu Geibun-kan, Fukuoka, Japan (2021); and CHAT-Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (2022), Rossi & Rossi (2020), Gallery EXIT (2020), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2018) and Hong Kong Arts Centre (2017), all in Hong Kong. In 2021, she was selected for the Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists’ Studio residency programme.
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