BIOGRAPHY 簡 介
Hong Kong visual artist Matthew Tsang Man Fu received his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from RMIT University in Australia in 2009 and 2016, respectively, and has been teaching at the Hong Kong Art School since 2012. The core of Tsang's creative practice focuses on exploring the subtle relationships between time, transformation, and matter. He deliberately selects natural materials characterized by evanescence, transformation, and fragmentation—such as paper, wood, ice, charcoal, and aluminum foil—as his primary mediums, utilizing process-driven changes like burning, melting, and freezing as catalysts. In the process of fading and restructuring material forms, he objectifies the invisible passage of time, environmental tension, and existential philosophy. His creative mediums span large-scale installations, video, photography, and sculpture.
His creative trajectory extends from an initial exploration of memory and transience in his early work Memory Rebuild (2008), to the spiritual excavation of materials in his mid-career series Where the ends is the beginning (2015-19). In recent years, his aesthetics of transformation have incorporated entirely new dimensions: Two Places Under the Same Sky (2024) contemplates geography and time, while Primary Two Chinese Textbook Passage (2025) ingeniously navigates the collision of culture, text, and matter. Entering 2026, his latest work, Transformed Rebirth, further combines charcoal with natural imagery to profoundly interpret the restructuring and rebirth of matter and life after undergoing the baptism of destruction.
In 2018, Tsang was invited to participate in the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park exhibition and won the Grand Prize at the "South Island International Art Award" in the same year. In 2024, he was selected as the representative artist for the Hong Kong House at the "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale" in Japan. His works have been exhibited extensively both locally and internationally and are held in various private and museum collections.
香港視覺藝術家曾敏富，2009及2016分別獲澳洲 RMIT 藝術學士及碩士學位，自 2012 年起任教於香港藝術學院。曾氏的創作核心著重於探索時間、轉變與物質之間的微妙關係。他刻意選用具有消逝、轉化與破碎特質的天然物料（如紙、木、冰、炭、錫紙等）作為主要載體，並透過火燒、融化、凍結等過程的轉變作為催化劑。在物質形態的消逝與重組過程中，他將不可見的時間流逝、環境張力與存在哲學具象化，創作媒介跨越大型裝置、錄像、攝影及雕塑。
其創作脈絡從早期《記憶重組》(2008) 對記憶與消逝的初探，延伸至中期《物盡源起》系列作品中對物料的精神挖掘。近年，他的轉化美學更融入全新維度：2024年《一樣不一樣》觀照地域與時間；2025年《小二國語課文》巧妙地處理文化、文本與物質的碰撞，邁入 2026 年，最新作品《Transformed Rebirth》進一步結合焦炭與自然意象，深刻演繹物質與生命在經歷毀滅洗禮後的重組與新生。
自2018年曾氏獲邀請參加藝遊維港雕塑展，同年獲「南島國際美術獎」首獎，並於 2024 年被選為日本「越後妻有大地藝術祭」香港部屋的駐留藝術家。其作品多次於本地及海外展出，並得私人及藝術館收藏。