Tobe Kan is a Hong Kong-based visual artist who specialises in painting, while she also experiments with mixed-media drawing, installation and poetry. Having received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School in 2017, Kan based her artistic practice on psychoanalysis and personal experiences of her own mental state, and of those around her, exploring human conditions such as personal loss, insecurity, depression, sense of isolation and fear of being forgotten. Her works often take an expressionist approach, with the use of dark colours and bold lines.
Kan was the recipient of the Fresh Trend Art Award of the Fresh Trend Art Graduations Joint Exhibition in 2017. Her solo shows organised by Gallery EXIT in Hong Kong include Liminal Interval (2023); Panacea(2021) and duo exhibition This Bitter Earth (2019); other selected solos include of war, of love, of time (Peter Augustus Gallery, USA, 2022) and Peck-eyes Ravens (CL3 Architects Limited, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2018). Group exhibition participations include Gravity (Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2022); Intersect Aspen (Peter Augustus Gallery, USA, 2022); The Sunshine Is Still There (SC Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022); The Unsung (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021); In the course of Dancing, from Nightfall toDarkness (Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 2020); By the Window (1a space, Hong Kong, 2019); and An on-going balance of insecurity (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018). Kan’s works have been acquired into numerous private collections.