Henry Tsang
University of California, Irvine


Henry Tsang is a visual artist and independent curator from Vancouver, where he received his BFA from the University of British Columbia in 19986. His installations and photography have been exhibited across Canada and overseas. He has also worked in public art; his Welcome to the Land of Light (1997) is a 100 metre-long permanent installation in Vancouver consisting of light and text: fibre optic cable lighting underscoring Chinook Jargon and English to speak about the promise of technology and how different cultures have come to live together in this part of the world.


In 2000, Tsang collaborated with a team of youth artists on a community public art project: The Mount Pleasant Golf & Country Club. A tournament inaugurated 18 semi-permanent holes of miniature golf on three sites in the inner-city neighborhood, with community workshops, a promotional campaign and free memberships and equipment rental.The artist’s current project is a 3-channel video projection that moves through Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Las Vegas with a vertiginous ferocity that is emblematic of the expansion and extension of urban and architectural space. His zooms and pans of these cityscapes are both romantic and aggressive, resulting in a disorientation that disrupts the viewer’s sense of physical and psychological balance.