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‘For both of us, it’s a way of seeing’: husband and wife hold second joint art exhibition in Hong Kong, 28 years after their first

  • In 1995, husband and wife Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen held a joint art show, Solo·Exhibitions·Twice, in Hong Kong
  • They talk about their second joint show, Solo·Exhibition·Twice II: Of Seeing, and how they’ve changed in the nearly three decades since the last show

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Husband and wife Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen are holding their second joint art show, 28 years after their first. Solo·Exhibition·Twice II: Of Seeing, at Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong, shows their contrasting styles. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Fionnuala McHugh

Amid the industrial space of Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery is a lovely joint exhibition by husband-and-wife artists Yeung Tong Lung and Sze Yuen.

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Both were born in mainland China – Yeung in Xiamen and Sze in Tianjin – and have been painting in Hong Kong for decades.

In 1995, they had a joint show at the Hong Kong Arts Centre: “Solo·Exhibitions·Twice”. This year, their second joint show is called “Solo·Exhibition·Twice II: Of Seeing”.

That the word exhibition is now singular would seem to reinforce the joint intent.

Yeung Tong-lung (left) and Sze Yuen at their first joint exhibition, “Solo·Exhibitions·Twice”, at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, in 1995. Photo: courtesy of the artists
Yeung Tong-lung (left) and Sze Yuen at their first joint exhibition, “Solo·Exhibitions·Twice”, at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, in 1995. Photo: courtesy of the artists
In the intervening years, Yeung, who is self-taught, has become better known as an artist. His large, vibrant paintings, populated by Hong Kong characters, have been bought by Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture and auctioned at Sotheby’s.
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