Lean Lui
Lean Lui is an artist and photographer based in Hong Kong. Her debut photography book, 19.29, was a finalist for the prestigious Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award. Her latest book, Aseptic Field (Setanta Books, London), has been featured by The Guardian, i-D, The Eye of Photography, and VOGUE. Another Magazine recognized it as one of the Best Photos of 2023, this series was also exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong in 2024.
Lean Lui’s images explore themes of sensuality, innocence and personal connection and the way these concepts, along with the ideas of seduction, intimacy and lust and undergo a slow process of contamination from the outside, transforming innocent fantasies, paradigms of perfection and purity into the disconcerting experiences of fear, desire, pain and isolation that we, as humans, inevitably encounter in an imperfect world.
2020-2022 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London), MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies
Solo Exhibition
2025 Lipid: Soft and Halycon, WALLPAPER gallery, Xia Men, China
2019 Teenage Problems, Hong Kong International Photography Festival
2019 First Born, Eslite HK
2019 19.29, Kubrick HK
2019 19.29, Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition
2019 19.29, Tokyo Book and Sons Gallery
2019 19.29, Russia Space Gallery
2018 Somnambulist, Hong Kong International Photography Festival
2018 School Bullying, Hong Kong Jockey Club
2017 Flow with Nature, f22 foto space café
Group Exhibition
2024 The Postman Always Rings Twice, PETITREE, Shen Zhen
2024 Starit is the Gate, Goethe Institut HK, Hong Kong
2023 Sensing Disorder, SOL Gallery, London
2023 Sensing Disorder, Simularca Gallery, Beijing
2023 Sensing Disorder, Boogie Woogie Photography Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 Sensing Disorder, Central Saint Martins Gallery, London
2019 19.29, XiaMen Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition
2019 19.29, Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition
2019 Beijing Three Shadow Photography Award Finalist
