Hong Kong-based commercial art galleries continued to under-represent female artists last year, despite the M+ museum of visual culture and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council selecting female artist Shirley Tse to represent the city in this year's Venice Biennale. Men accounted for around 80% of solo exhibitions at Hong Kong's 26 most established contemporary art dealers last year, according to figures from South China Morning Post. The exhibition will be held on June 12 at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMA), which is also hosting a major retrospective of Chinese modern art.
Hong Kong-based commercial art galleries continued to under-represent female artists last year, despite the M+ museum of visual culture and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council selecting female artist Shirley Tse to represent the city in this year's Venice Biennale. Men accounted for around 80% of solo exhibitions at Hong Kong's 26 most established contemporary art dealers last year, according to figures from South China Morning Post. That ratio has remained relatively unchanged for at least a decade.