My concept-led works are realized through diverse methods and presentations, including moving image, performance art, readymade, and painting. I am sensitive to the city’s inconspicuous yet subtle order; through art-making, I interrogate my desire for control, attempt to dominate realities in various ways, and pay attention to this world that continues to manipulate us (un)intentionally.
Born in Hong Kong; currently lives and works there.
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Lucky Star - Sarah lai & Sunday Lai NewPark (Hong Kong)
2023 Two Readings - Duo-solo exhibition by A.3.Lingo & Sunday Lai Tomorrow Maybe (Hong Kong)
2018 Sleepless Lights LITHIUM (Chicago, USA)
2016 The Pendulant Mass - A Duo Show by Sunday Lai & Cheng Ting Ting GALERIE OVO (Taipei, Taiwan)
2015 Half Day with Cloud - Sunday Lai & Yu Shuk Pui Bobby Group Exhibition EC Gallery (Hong Kong)
2013 Selling at the Daily Rental Shop Shop 9A, On Fu Road, Tai Po (Hong Kong)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 A HKBU Parallel Exhibition of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Between Image and Index Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2025 Videotage In NEW PLATFORM - Alternative Asia: mind the _____ B1 floor of Shintakashima Station (Yokohama, Japan)
2025 ART.Work_WIP Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020 – “Episōdo 02 – Scenography for Suspended Time” 52 Kimberly Road, Lorentzville (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2019 Café do Brasil Para Site Art Space (Hong Kong)
2019 New Art Now AVA Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2018 SAIC MFA Show The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
2017 5354: Neither Here, Nor There LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery (Chicago, USA)
2016 SHIFT: AVA 10th Anniversary Exhibition Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2015 What Unimaginable Forms Comix Home Space (Hong Kong)
2015 after/image - book launch and exhibition Studio 52, Pure Art Foundation (Hong Kong)
2015 Sparkle! regarding lightness: On Life’s Way Oil Street Art Space (Hong Kong)
2014 Art as Social Interaction—Hong Kong / Taiwan Exchange Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2014 Intimacy, Mediated Osage Gallery (Hong Kong)
2014 From 3G To 4G Karin Weber Gallery (Hong Kong)
2014 "Is There Love In The Air?" Outdoor Art Exhibition and Happenings Cattle Depot Artist Village's open area and nearby area (Hong Kong)
2014 ArtWalk Extra At the street near The Space (210 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan) (Hong Kong)
2014 [en]counters 2014: is there love in this air? Carter Road Promenade (Mumbai, India)
2013 ART TAIPEI 2013 Taipei World Trade Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
2013 The Weight of Lightness: Bio-gravity Oil Street Art Space (Hong Kong)
2013 BOING! Osage Gallery (Hong Kong)
2012 Dreaming is a Private Thing AVA Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2012 ART TAIPEI 2012 Taipei World Trade Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
2012 Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2012 Macao Museum of Art (Macau)
2012 Familiar Stranger Red Relation Gallery (Hong Kong)
2010 Budding Winter Tuen Mun Park (Hong Kong)
2009 New Trend 2009 Artist Commune (Hong Kong)
2009 : Graduation Exhibition 2009 AVA Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2009 Transit Return AVA Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
2008 Transit NGO <> HKG Nagoya City Citizens Gallery YADA (Nagoya, Japan)
2008 Cycle AVA Gallery, HKBU (Hong Kong)
GRANTS
2016 Graduate Travel Grant (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
2011 Project Grant for Emerging Artist Scheme (Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong)
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES
2018 Bangmod Canal International Art Project in Communities (Bangkok, Thailand)
2014 Socially Engaged Art in Hong Kong and Taiwan (Dongju Island, Taiwan)
2014 [en]counter 2014 (Mumbai - Hong Kong exchange project about art in public) (Mumbai, India)
EDUCATION
2018 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 BA (Hons) in Visual Arts Hong Kong Baptist University