• Department of English

    • Mr LEUNG Mong Sum, Joseph （梁望琛先生）
    BACM (CityU)(First-class Honors)
    MFA (CUHK)
    PhD Candidature (DieAngewandte)

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Art and Design

    Tel : josephleung@hsu.edu.hk
    Email :
    (852) 3963 5786


    Mr. Joseph Leung Mong-sum is an artist and researcher whose work encompasses a diverse range of mediums, including images, text, found objects, and installations. His intermedia practice serves as a conceptual inquiry into the manifestation of affects, with a particular focus on anxiety across various socio-political contexts. Currently, Leung is engaged in a long-term project titled "Post-digital Angst," which aims at surveying the contours of anxiety in the digital milieu.

    Leung is doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong after completing his Bachelor's degree at the City University of Hong Kong and Syracuse University in New York. Additionally, he co-founded Negative Space, an artist-run initiative dedicated to promoting lens-based media and experimental practices in Hong Kong.

    His works have been shortlisted for notable awards including the 24th ifva Awards (Media Arts category), the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize, and the WMA Masters Photographic Awards. Leung's art is represented in notable collections across cities such as Basel, Luxembourg, Paris, Vienna, and Hong Kong.

    Research InterestsSolo ExhibitionsSelected Group ExhibitionSelected PublicationConference PresentationGrants/ Awards
    TopResearch Interests
    • Angst
    • Post-digital Practices
    • Artistic Research
    • Contemporary Art
    • Image-based Practices
    TopSolo Exhibitions
    2022   
    • The State of Being Dragged, Spielzimmer, Vienna, Austria
    • The State of Being Dragged, lotsremark projekte, Basel, Switzerland
    2019
    • Digital and Transcendental, Death and Light, Cheng Ming Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    2018
    • Eventually Obsolete, Cheng Ming Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    TopSelected Group Exhibition
    2024
    • Seagrapes, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Vienna, Austria
    • Hong Kong Qi, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China
    • Raum für Forschung – Vermittlung von Kunst und Wissenschaft, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, VordereZollamtsstraße 7, Vienna, Austria
    2023  
    • QUIETLY loud: QUESTION ME & ANSWER Group Show, GALERIE Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria
    • Zeitwärts (Rotlicht Festival), Semmelweis Klinik, Vienna, Austria
    • COUPLET PAIR REBUS: The Principle of Cause and Effect in Art, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong University
    • QMA Exhibition 2023, GALERIE Peter Gaugy, Goldschlagstraße 106, 1150 Vienna, Austria
    • Wanderlust. Sharing of things resonante, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Vienna, Austria
    • In the Presence of Artistic Research, Postsparkasse (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab), Vienna, Austria
    2022  
    • Paris Internationale 2022, No. 16 | rue Alfred de Vigny, Paris, France (Under Negative Space)
    • Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022, Online Festival (and Physical Display at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, UK)
    2021
    • FUTURE MEMORIES - Utopia Dystopia Nature, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, Hong Kong
      2020
    • Triangle, Circle, Rectangle, Negative Space, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
    • Transitorische Turbulenzen, Bern Art Festival, Connected Space, Kunstraum Dreiviertel, Switzerland
    2019
    • CINEMA 2.0 Media Arts Exhibition: Acrylic Dreams, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
    2018
    • Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize, The Hive Spring, Hong Kong
    • HKFOREWORD 2018,10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
    • WMA Masters and WMA Film Exhibition - Transition, Hong Kong central library exhibition gallery, Hong Kong
    2017
    • MATLAB & Guests. Drawing & Painting: (Trans) medial experiments, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
    • October School 2017, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India
    TopSelected Publication
    • Leung, M. S. (2024). On Post-digital “Alterity” and “Hostility”. Art Research Envelope, 6, https://doi.org/10.22501/envelo.2738166
    • Leung, M. S. (2024). An Immanent Breeze – The Need for Poetry in Times of Silence. Question Me and Answer: Opinion Piece. https://www.questionmeandanswer.com/opinion-piece-an-immanent-breeze
    • Leung, M. S. (2024). Post-digital Angst: Direct Angst. Reposition: Journal of Reflective Positions in Art & Research, 2, https://doi.org/10.22501/repos.2481763
    • Leung, M. S. (2023). POST-DIGITAL ANGST: Research Context and Keywords. Art Research Envelope, 5, https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2016.e1162
    • Leung, M. S. (2022). Online Liminality [Book Section]. What have we done? Peer-to-Peer: UK/HK 2022 Memoir (p.14). Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022.
    • Leung, M. S. (2022). The Consciousness of the Millennium (2018), Two Sides of a Plant (2019), A Mark (Self-Portrait) (2017), Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb(2015), [Artwork documentation]. Future Memories: Utopia Dystopia Nature (116, 152, 162, 164). Ediciones Triton.
    • Leung, M. S. (2021). On Being An Archival Flâneur and Beyond. Videotage VMAC newsletter, December 2021. https://www.videotage.org.hk/web/subpage.php?mid=37
    • Leung, M. S. (2021). Transitorische Turbulenzen: Flag of Hong Kong [Artwork documentation]. Connected space ein Berner Staffellauf der Kunsträume: Oktober 2019 - Juli 2021 (pp. 200-201). Petit Palais. Die kleine Edition.
    • Leung, M. S. (2021). Eventually Obsolete [Artwork documentation]. Fleurs des Lettres, 91, 70.
    TopConference Presentation
    • Leung, M. S. (2024, August 11). Studio and Methodology [Symposium Speaker]. Atelier Export 0.1, Hong Kong
    • Leung, M. S. (2024, May 14-17). An Intersubjective Angst in the Digital Milieu [Keynote address]. Lecture –> Performance <– Lecture - Public Colloquium 2024, Vienna, Austria.
    • Leung, M. S., Busch, M., O’Brian, J., Faisst-Miedl, V., Anderwald, R., Grond, L., & Badura, J. (2024, April 10-12). Ethics Platform Poster [Poster Session]. SAR 15th International Conference on Artistic Research, Tilburg, Netherlands.
    • Leung, M. S. (2023, September 22-23). Post-digital Angst [Keynote address]. re:publica x Reeperbahn Festival, Heiligengeistfeld, Hamburg, Germany.
    • Leung, M. S. (2023, September 24-25). Intersubjective Angst in the Post-digital: On “Otherness” and “Hostility” [Poster Session]. Angewandte Research Week 2023, Vienna, Austria.
    • Leung, M. S. (2023, May 23-25). Post-digital Angst: Direct Angst [Keynote address]. In the Presence of Artistic Research - Public Colloquium 2023, Vienna, Austria.
    TopGrants/ Awards
    • The 6th QM&A Artist Collective Grant, 2023
    • Hong Kong Arts Development Council Project Grant, 2020
    • The 24th ifva Awards (Media Arts category) Finalist, 2019
    • Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize Finalist, 2018
    • WMA Masters Photographic Awards 2017/18 Finalist, 2018
    • First Smash 4 Art Project Finalist, 2017
    • Julian Lee Asia One Photographic Awards, 2017
    • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship (2014-2015)
    • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship (2013-2014)