Hoo Fan Chon

Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in Penang, Malaysia. His research-driven projects are often set in local geographies and concern class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacy. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow. His practice aims to "mengataskan yang kampung, kampungkan yang atas," which can be translated as, "to make fancy the village, to make village the fancy." This year, he was selected as part of the Moving Narratives Cycle II cohort – a programme organized by the Prince Claus Fund in collaboration with the British Council. His works were featured in Young Birds from Strange Mountains in Berlin (2025) and The Oceans and the Interpreters in Taipei, Dhaka, and Lagos (2022–2023). His solo exhibitions include The World is Your Restaurant (Kuala Lumpur, 2021) and Let Them Eat Salmon (Singapore, 2023). Hoo graduated with a BA in Photography from the London College of Communication (2010) and co-founded the Run Amok art collective (2012–17) in George Town.