Trevor Yeung uses botanic ecology, horticulture, aquarium system and installations as metaphors that reference the emancipation of everyday aspirations towards human relationships. Yeung draws inspiration from intimate and personal experiences, culminating in works that range from image-based works to large-scale installations. Obsessed with structures, he creates different scales of systems which allow him to exert control upon living beings, including plants, animals, as well as spectators.
Yeung represented Hong Kong at the 60th Venice Biennale with “Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice”, and his return exhibition will be staged at M+ in Hong Kong in May 2025. He was previously shortlisted for the Sigg Prize 2023 and Future Generation Art Prize 2021.Yeung has participated in the ENNOVA Art Biennale (Hebei, 2024), Lahore Biennale (Lahore, 2024),24th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2024), Singapore Biennale (Singapore, 2022), Kathmandu Triennale(Kathmandu, 2022), la biennale de Lyon (Lyon, 2019), EVA International Biennale (Dublin, 2018), the 4th Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh, 2018) and the 10th Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai, 2014).
Yeung had his first institutional solo exhibition in the UK at Gasworks, London (UK, 2023), and the exhibition has travelled to Para Site (Hong Kong, 2024) and Aranya Art Center (Beidaihe, 2024). He has also exhibited at institutions internationally, including Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong, 2025), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, 2024), M+ (Hong Kong, 2023), He Art Museum (Foshan, 2023), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris, 2022), Blank Canvas (Penang, 2023), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), Jameel Arts Center (Dubai, 2022), Shanghai Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2021), Para Site (Hong Kong, 2020), Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln (Cologne, 2020), HOW Art Museum (Shanghai, 2020), Taikang Space (Beijing, 2018), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2018), esea contemporary (Manchester, 2017) and OCA Shenzhen (Shenzhen, 2016).
Yeung currently lives and works in Hong Kong.
