Henry Shum, Hex
November 4 - December 21, 2022, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 55 Walker, New York
Photo: Lance Brewer
Henry Shum, Hex
November 4 - December 21, 2022, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 55 Walker, New York
Photo: Lance Brewer
Henry Shum, Hex
November 4 - December 21, 2022, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 55 Walker, New York
Photo: Lance Brewer
Henry Shum
Dream Construction, 2020
Oil on canvas
73 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches (185.3 x 125.1 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Dream Construction, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
73 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches (185.3 x 125.1 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Gate of Innocence, 2020
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Gate of Innocence, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Sol, 2021
Oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches (120 x 80 x 3 cm.)
Henry Shum
Memory Fallacy, 2021
Oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches (120 x 80 x 3 cm.)
Henry Shum, Fifteen Painters
April 2 - May 15, 2021, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 55 Walker, New York
Photo: Lance Brewer
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
Revolution of Night, 2020
Oil on canvas
73 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches (185.3 x 125.1 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Revolution of Night, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
73 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches (185.3 x 125.1 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
Memory of a Landscape, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 2 inches (42.3 x 32.2 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
Annunciation, 2020
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Annunciation, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Ancient of Days (Descending Elephant Fish), 2020
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Ancient of Days (Descending Elephant Fish), 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
New Sun, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
48 x 32 1/2 x 2 inches (122.6 x 82.6 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
Men at Dinner Table, 2018
Oil on canvas
47 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 2 inches (120.5 x 82.3 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum, Vortices
September 26 – November 21, 2020, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shum
Double of a Composition, 2019
Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 inches (92.2 x 62.3 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Vortices, 2020
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Vortices, 2020 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
79 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 2 inches (202.8 x 135.7 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Before a Mirror, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 2 inches (42.3 x 32.2 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Light of Fireflies (Aquis Submersus), 2020
Oil on canvas
73 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches (185.3 x 125.1 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Spirit of an Eye, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 2 inches (42.3 x 32.2 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Man, Woman and Child, 2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 32 1/2 x 2 inches (122.6 x 82.6 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Whirlpool and Girl, 2019
Oil on canvas
48 1/4 x 32 1/2 x 2 inches (122.7 x 82.5 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Woman and Child, 2019
Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 inches (92.2 x 62.3 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Woman and Child, 2019 (Detail)
Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 inches (92.2 x 62.3 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Women and Child at Dinner Table, 2017
Oil on canvas
32 x 48 x 2 inches (81.8 x 122.6 x 5.6 cm)
Henry Shum
Woman and Man, 2017
Oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 2 inches (42.3 x 32.2 x 5.6 cm)
In his paintings, Henry Shum (b. 1998, Hong Kong) attempts to navigate the liminal space where memory and image flow into and through one another. Collecting images he encounters in both physical and digital spaces, Shum develops thematic connections across disparate material, filtering his sources through an affective mesh of undulating lines, and thin veils of paint. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional space often appears to fold in on each other, suggesting the existence of multiple planes, or virtualities within a single work. This suggestion is not a reflection of Shum’s own desires, but instead reflects a reality specific to our times - the ceaseless maneuvering between the collective and the individual, the historical and the ahistorical. Melding these elements within singular compositions, Shum mirrors the contemporary experience of daily life, a continuous barrage of information within an endlessly mediated present. Henry Shum lives and works in Hong Kong, and received his BA from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2020. Empty Gallery, Hong Kong presented Shum’s first solo exhibition in 2020. Andrew Kreps Gallery presented Shum’s first solo exhibition in North America in Fall 2022.
