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Tobe Kan

Tobe Kan (b. 1984) currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree co-presented by RMIT University and the Hong Kong Art School in 2017. In recent years, during her casual walks and wanderings, she has focused on observing various plants that naturally coexist with humans. Her current artistic practice investigates themes of liminality and impermanence, dissecting feelings of insecurity, alienation, and being forgotten, while delving into concepts of existence, distance, and identity. Her works seek to reveal the uncanny and mysterious sensations of wandering between being half-asleep and half-awake, dream and reality. She frequently experiments through painting, drawing, and installation art. Her works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Dallas, Taipei, Seoul, Cambridge, and beyond, and are widely held in institutional and private collections.

About the artist

Tobe Kan (b. 1984) currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree co-presented by RMIT University and the Hong Kong Art School in 2017. In recent years, during her casual walks and wanderings, she has focused on observing various plants that naturally coexist with humans. Her current artistic practice investigates themes of liminality and impermanence, dissecting feelings of insecurity, alienation, and being forgotten, while delving into concepts of existence, distance, and identity. Her works seek to reveal the uncanny and mysterious sensations of wandering between being half-asleep and half-awake, dream and reality. She frequently experiments through painting, drawing, and installation art. Her works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Dallas, Taipei, Seoul, Cambridge, and beyond, and are widely held in institutional and private collections.

Kan’s art stems directly from her experiences of insomnia and vivid dreams. Rather than treating restless nights as lost time, she uses the space between sleep and wakefulness, a state known as “liminality”, to capture elusive emotional fragments. She draws inspiration from overlooked “silent living things” in urban spaces, such as roadside weeds, sleeping figures, and trees found in places like Kowloon Park. Kan focuses on short-lived urban vegetation that silently coexists with humans, viewing them as mirrors of human vulnerability, impermanence, and quiet resilience. Rather than relying heavily on thin fluid washes, she builds soft, velvety surfaces using dry mediums like oil pastels and color pencils, laying down rich indigo, cyan, and cobalt pigments in controlled, delicate layers. Her subtle blending method creates smooth, continuous gradients that blur the boundaries between plant stems and structures, producing a shadowy, translucent glow that endows her flora with a quiet vitality.

Tobe Kan’s artistic practice extends far beyond visual aesthetics; it operates as an ongoing investigation into the psychological state of modern urban survival. Her signature blue-tinted universe examines the delicate threshold where dreams, nature, and emotional alienation intersect in dense, fast-paced environments like Hong Kong. Through residencies abroad (such as at Cambridge University), observing foreign landscapes heightened her connection to the flora of her hometown. Her depictions of local flora offer urbanites a sanctuary: a quiet, reflective space to pause, process grief, and connect with overlooked aspects of everyday life.