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Rachel 
Hiu Yin IP

Rachel Hiu-Yin Ip (葉曉燕)  is a visual artist, independent curator, and art educator. She holds a BA in Fine Art, majoring in Photography, and a Master of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), as well as a Master of Cultural Studies from Lingnan University.

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Her photographic works have been exhibited internationally in Hong Kong, the UK, and China, including at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Videotage, Oil, ACO, Lumenvisum, Iklectik, the 11th Pingyao International Photography Festival, and Fine Art Asia, as well as in various galleries and art spaces, and are held in private collections.Ip is a founding member of The Upper Station Photo Gallery, a Hong Kong–based gallery dedicated to contemporary photography. Her curatorial practice spans numerous exhibitions, with selected projects including Rare Encounters: Nancy Sheung’s Portraits of Hong Kong Women in the 1960s, About Us, About Life & About the City, 100 Self-portraits of Hongkongese, I Will Not Make Any Boring Photograph, and, more recently, Women Artists in the UK.

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2019  There’s Something I Want to Say, WeWork Gallery, HK 

  • 2017  There’s Nothing I Want to Say, Precedee, HK

  • 2015  Chun Gwong, ACO, HK

Group

  • 2026    Home Rethinking Home, London 

  • 2025    In Between Places: Hong Kong Women Artist in the UK, Kingswood Arts, London 

  • 2023    Feel it Show it Sorted, Gathering Leaves hk, London 

  • 2023    Small File Photo Festival, The Photographer's Gallery, London 

  • 2023    Leaving on a Jet Place, Lumenvisum, HK

  • 2023    Hommage, Sansiao Gallery HK, HK

  • 2022    Small Files Photo Festival, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (Online)

  • 2022    Master & Apprentice, Sansiao Gallery HK, HK

  • 2022    Wish You Well, cafe or not cafe, Village Church of Meierstorf, Germany

  • 2022    Wish You Well, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales. UK

  • 2022    Wish You Well, cafe or not cafe, Taiwan

  • 2021    Wish You Well , Karin Weber Gallery, HK

  • 2021    1+1, Pao’s Galleries, Hong Kong Art Centre, HK 

  • 2019    We Support, ACO, HK

  • 2018    Water_3_Modulation, McAulay Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Art Centre, HK               

  • 2017    Water_Modulation, Videotage, HK

  • 2017    Deep Silence, Pao’s Galleries, Hong Kong Art Centre, HK

  • 2017 《流魂［二十八］頌：溶合媒體展覽》Videotage, HK

  • 2016    Interlocutor You Are Not Alone in Oil 油街實現, HK 

  • 2016    The Weather Forecast, Iklectik, London, UK

  • 2015    100 Self portrait of Hongkongese, PMQ, HK

  • 2013    Dozens of photography works, JCCAC, HK

  • 2013    Dozens of photography works, HK International Photo Festival Flare 2013, HKDI, HK

  • 2013    Read it yourself, PLATFORM, OCTA, SZ China

  • 2012    Up and Go, The Upper Station (photo gallery), HK

  • 2011    Chiaroscuro, JCCAC, Gallery L1, HK

  • 2011    Fine Art Asia 2011, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, HK

  • 2011    Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

  • 2011    Kotoba, The Upper Station (photo gallery), HK

  • 2011     Hong Kong Art Walk 2011, The Upper Station (photo gallery), HK

  • 2009   On and Beyond, The Pao's Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK

  • 2008    Art After 6, Sense 99, HK

Alongside her curatorial work, Ip is actively engaged in art education and writing. She is the founder of Women Art Creative and established RAC, a one-man art school, in 2012. She has taught at the Hong Kong Art School and the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, and was a lecturer at Hong Kong Metropolitan University from 2015 to 2022.

She has been a columnist for Milk since 2015 and Res()nate magazine since 2020, and currently contributes to Ming Pao and Milkulture. She also works in art press and continues to promote the arts through her writing, podcast, and teaching.

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