2024 Asian Heritage Month Events
Asian Heritage Month Art and Photo Exhibition by Award-Winning Asian Canadian Photographers and Artists
Dates: May 11 to May 15, 2024
Venue: City Hall Rotunda, Toronto, 100 Queen Street West. Google map of event venue.
Admission is free.
Curators: Dr. Lien Chao and Mr. Tam Kam Chiu
Photographers: Tam Kam Chiu, Stephen Siu
Artist: Irene Ho
Asian Heritage Month Art and Photo Exhibition by Award-Winning Asian Canadian Photographers and Artists
Date: May 16 to May 22, 2024
Venue: Metro Hall Rotunda, Toronto, 55 John Street. Google map of event venue.
Admission is free.
Photographers
Tam Kam Chiu, GMPSA (Grand Master, Photographic Society of America)
Dragon Boat Race by Mr. Tam Kam Chiu
Dragon Boat Race by Mr. Tam Kam Chiu
Tam Kam Chiu (譚錦超) is a Chinese Canadian, born in Hong Kong. He has been the President of the Photographic Society of Hong Kong (PSHK), Salon Chairman of the Photographic Society of Hong Kong (PSHK), Liaison Officer of The International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) in Hong Kong as well a member of judged panels of the Hong Kong International Salons and of various photographic contests in Toronto.
He is currently the Honourary Advisor and the Chairman of Proficiency and Honourary Awards of the Canadian Chinese Photographic Society in Toronto.
Tam is a Fellow and Honourary Fellow of The Photographic Society of Hong Kong and an Honourary Fellow of the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto. He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (RPS) and has been awarded the International Federation of Photographic Art’s Excellency Service Award, along with many other awards.
In 2014, he was rated the top seventh photographer in the world, and the number one photographer in the North America by the Photographic Society of America.
A well-known photographer in artistic photojournalism photographs, his photographic works have been exhibited in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas. In 2003, he was invited to exhibit his flowers photos at the Toronto Botanical Garden. In 2007, the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) invited Tam to exhibit his work at Metro Hall in Toronto.
Tam’s publications include: Tam, Tam, Tam Photographic Exhibition Album (1992), and Tam, Tam, Tam Photographic Exhibition Album (1994).
Visual Artists
Henry Ho
Tai Chi Player, by Henry Ho
Henry Ho was born at Hong Kong in 1954, he was an art designer at Hong Kong Television Broadcasting company, and the lecturer of First institute of Art and Design.
Henry came to Canada as an artist immigrant in 1988. He has been practicing Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan for 40 years.
He is an art teacher and Qi Gong instructor at Toronto.
Henry employs the ancient Chinese brushwork as his main art language which is merged with different art forms such as contemporary Chinese calligraphy, figurative and abstract brush work, installation art, action painting performance art, video art, multi-media interactive musical performance art. The main concept of Henry’s art is to translate the realm from his spiritual practice.
Irene Hung
Triangle by Irene Hung
Irene Hung’s artistic journey began with traditional Chinese brush painting in her high school years in Hong Kong. Upon immigrating to Canada in 1995, she began to intertwine traditional Asian art forms and sentiments with her new Canadian experience.
In 2008 she proudly held her first solo exhibition in a local Toronto cafe. Since then, she has joined the Willowdale Group of Artists, the Dynasty Watercolor Association, the Bayview Watercolor Society, and the WE Artists Association.
Irene has participated in many community-based art exhibitions. Since 2015, she has participated annually in Asian Heritage Month Festival art exhibitions in Toronto’s Metro Hall and the City Hall. From 2017 to 2020, Irene was among a team of professional artists to participate in the York University Canada 150 Workshop Project to deliver art workshops to TDSB and TCDSB schools. Currently, her team continues to deliver Chinese brush painting workshops to the two largest school boards in Toronto.
Irene’s artistic path has been to explore and experiment with different art forms through which she can explore her vision and express her experience, freely and creatively. She draws upon God’s presence in her life, which is an important part of her spiritual practice. Her artistic pursuits have expanded and widened her life in Canada. Mingling with many Canadian artists, her artistic path began to integrate the east and west cultural values and art media. Now she works with both Chinese and Western art media, forms and colours. She believes that art can enlighten people’s minds, refresh their spirituality, and enhance their sensitivity toward others. Her art indeed expresses a deeper joy as a creative artist who is always fascinated by vibrant movements and ever-changing patterns in the world within and beyond the visions of our naked eyes.
Sharon Cook
by Sharon Cook
Joe Rivera
By Joe Rivera
Zhang Tao
Event co-organizers: Asian Heritage Month—Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.; Toronto Public Library; Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto; Chinese Canadian Photography Society of Toronto; WE Artists’ Group; Social Services Network; Cambridge Food and Wine Society
Asian Heritage Month Festival is partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Asian Canadian Artists in Digital Age is funded by Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategy Fund.