ABOUT


CHRIS CHONG CHAN FUI is a filmmaker and artist who works between Southeast Asia and Canada. From digital and analog moving images to fabricated and organic objects, Chong works to reveal unfamiliar narratives. His work layers the social and natural sciences with transnational circuits of globalization and manufactured cultures and landscapes. With a rigorous research methodology and a formalist aesthetic, he uses structure and constraints as a creative path toward expressive innovation. Chong has exhibited at such venues as the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Palais de Tokyo, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, and the Gwangju Biennale, while premiering films at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors’ Fortnight, BFI London, and TIFF’s Wavelengths, where he won back-to-back awards for Best Canadian Short Film. He is a Smithsonian Institute fellow (National Museum of Natural History), a Ford Foundation fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Arts Fellow. Chong holds an MFA (film) from York University and is an Assistant Professor (film) at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

CLIMATES. HABITATS. ENVIRONMENTS: Environmentally-engaged Artistic Practices in South, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, NTU)



HIGHLIGHTS
2025     IFFR Hubert Bals Fund award, MOTO, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025     Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM, Brooklyn, USA
2025     Welcome Back, Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2020    Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2019     Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK
2018    Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2018    Ties of History, Manila, Philippines (presenting KOLAM/POOL, BOTANIC, and PERCY'S FLOWERS)
2016    Assembridge Nagoya, Minatomachi Art Table, Nagoya, Japan
2016     Garden in Movement, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2015     After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2015     Archipel Secret, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2015     Art Paris Art Fair , Grand Palais, Paris, France
2015     Open Sea,Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, , Lyon, France
2015     Missing LinksJim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2015     Looking Forward, Fergana Art Space, Georgetown, Malaysia
2014     Cinema Remake, Eye Film Museum Netherlands, Amsterdam
2013     Singaore Biennale: If The World Changed, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2013     Eastern Promises: Contemporary Architecture and Spatial Practices in East Asia, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Arts, Vienna, Austria
2010     Future Projections, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MOCCA), Toronto, Canada
2010     Black Box Series, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
2010     Malaisie, Singapour: Le Cinéma!, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2009     Quinzaine des Réalisateurs/Directors' Fortnight, Festival de Cannes, France {Camera d'Or nomination)
2009     World Cinema, BFI London International Film Festival, U.K.
2009     Spielfilme, Vienna International Film Festival, Austria
2009     Asian Cinema, Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea
2009     International Competition, Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
2009     CREAM, International Festival of Arts & Media Yokohama, Japan
2009     Mavericks, Calgary International Film Festival, Canada {Best Film winner}
2009     Forum Expanded, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
2008     Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada {Best Short Film winner}
2008     Competition, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina
2007     Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada {Best Short Film winner}



FELLOWSHIPS
2019     Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Arts Fellowship,
2016     Fellowship, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, U.S.A.
2007     Fellowship, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Ford Foundation, U.S.A.



RESIDENCIES
2016     Cité internationale des arts, Paris (Sept - Dec)
2017     NTU CCA Singapore, Artists-in-Residence, Singapore (Mar-Apr)
2009     Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan (Oct)

HEAVENHELL, behind-the-scenes, Yokohama, Japan photo/Y. Kasagi




AWARDS
Best Film, “KARAOKE”, Calgary Int’l Film Festival, 2009, Canada
Best Short Film, “BLOCK B”, Mar del Plata Int’l Film Festival, 2009, Argentina
Best Short Film, “BLOCK B”, Toronto Int’l Film Festival, 2008, Canada
Best Short Film, “KOLAM”, Toronto Int’l Film Festival, 2007, Canada
Best Short Film, “Tuesday Be My Friend”, Goethe Institute Film Competition, 2006, Malaysia
Best Fiction Film, “Tuesday Be My Friend”, Jakarta Int’l Slingshort Fest, 2006, Indonesia
Best Emerging Filmmaker, “Let Me Start By Saying”, IMAGES Festival, 2001, Canada
Winner, best development project, “The Tour”, Produire Au Sud, 2008, France/Bangkok



EDUCATION
2023    Master of Fine Arts, Film, York University, Canada
2013     Film Restoration School Asia, National Museum of Singapore in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata and World Cinema Foundation, Singapore
2008     Talent Lab, Toronto Int’l Film Festival, Canada
2008     DOCEDGE, Asian Documentary Forum, Kolkata, India
2007     Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin Internationall Film Festival, Germany
2007     Asian Film Academy, Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea
1998     Film Farm, Philip Hoffman, Mount Pleasant, Canada
1991-95 Bachelor of Commerce, University of Calgary, Canada

DATUM Architecture & Design Conference 2010, speaker, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia photo/DATUM