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
 OP SCAPE
florian ma

The concept is what I use scanner abnormality to do a linear video represent

color, time, and space. Base on Scanner and Pixels. Reorganizes it into lines
of color image. To rebuild a various of abstraction and new arrangement of
what we see.

I explore The ways of the scanner looking to the world of the color and space
between in a picture between objects inside the picture. Scanner logically
moving on an object but video come out………….

Color lines appear to come forward and recede. Warm and cool colors coming in
in out. You cant tap out a rhythm with your finger.

Managed to balance controversy with critical interest, abstraction with content,

and gesture with mass, creating a diverse body of work known for its formal
and innovative qualities.

I pattern our object from nature to language.

 Exhibition at White Tube - Front of the Gallery
“Light bring life to every things. “Light” give
power for us go on our life. The places where
“Light” can go are creating space. We use
“Light” power to shuttle this space. ”Light” let
our life more brilliant
This exhibition is a desire of “light”. Base
on the logic of “light” use seem a kind of error
output on our art work to explore a new time
and space language.
Camera takes the space-time of object to
Still in The Birth Of Venus , Oil Painting , 2004, 180 cm x 72 cm

Still in I used Sandro Botticelli painting , The Birth of Venus.c.1485.

To scholars the story of her birthday was the symbol of
The Birth Of Venus mystery through which the divine message of beauty came
into the world. Venus has emerged from the sea on a shell
which is driven to the shore by flying wing-gods amidst a
shower of roses..I am reconstructing the fact of a perfectly
harmonious colour and pattern. Freeze the graceful
movement to melodious lines.
 Mona Lisa, C Print , 2004, 120 cm x 60 cm

Mona Lisa Mona Lisa is not an unmixed blessing for a work of art . She
seem an attraction to change before our eyes and to look a
little different every time we come back to her.

I copy Lisa line by line and detail by detail, the less we can
imagine that it ever really moved and breathed.

Then I did further work of Painting , sculpture and Video.

Mona to Mona
Oil Painting , 2004, 180 cm x 216 cm
Mona Cube in 3
C Print , installation , 2004, 21 cm x 14 cm x 9cm
Mona’s sharp curve
C Print , installation , 2004, 120 cm x 78 cm
Mona Cube
C Print , installation , 2004, 21 cm x 15 cm x 28 cm
Mona Lisa Those track are created on computer using line as a
template to show the transaction to producing and to
transforming the old masterpieces to a new way of visual
experiences. The lines is therefore arranged in a broadly
chronological order , and according to phases or families to
related paintings. And the interested things is the lines are
appearing to be running behind or in front of another and a
kind of illusion of depth created .To showing it is an
experience of human - Sight.
Hong Kong Victoria Harbor Daytime
Video installation , 2004.
“Light bring life to every things. “Light” give
power for us go on our life. The plases where
“Light” can go are creating space. We use
“Light” power to shuttle this space.”Light” let
our life more brilliant
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This exhibition is a desire of “light”. Base
on the logic of “light” use seem a kind of error
output on our art work to explore a new time
and space language.
Camera takes the space-time of object to
 Hong Kong Victoria Harbor Night time
Video installation , 2004.

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 play @ Hong Kong Tamer Site
Video installation , 2004.

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 play @ Hong Kong Tamer Site
Video installation , 2004.

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IFC II Morning , Evening , Night Time
Video installation , 2004.

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Body Transaction
Video installation , Acrylic Painting and Video , 2006. 180 cm x 230 cm
DIRECTION , still image

DIRECTION , still image

Resource of the photo for producing

Direction
Wood panel and TV , Video Installation, 2006. 450 cm x 90 cm x 150 cm