Fair Director’s Picks: Hong Kong 2026
Discover our Fair Director, Regina’s curated selection from over 105 galleries participating in Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2026.
Coco Ma Hiu Lam
Wednesday 22 April, 2026
Ahead of Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong (14 – 17 May), we spoke with Fair Director Regina Zhang to discover her must-see artists. Join us as we get to know the artists she’s most excited to find at the Hong Kong fair.
Space Um (Stand H07) – Min Yul
Born in 1973 in Korea, Min Yul is known for her poetic series The Chair on the Tree. Each work depicts a humble chair poised on the edge of a tree, gently swaying beneath the sky, an enduring metaphor for solitude and serenity amid abundance. Her paintings invite pause, reflection, and rest, creating space for healing, contemplation, and self-awareness. Through the chair motif, Min Yul captures the delicate balance between isolation and introspection in a fast-moving world.
The Tolman Collection Tokyo (Stand A04) – Emi Uchida
Based in Okayama, Japan, Emi Uchida works with oil and charcoal to explore the quiet signs of life and inner sensations through symbolic motifs. With a background in fashion, her refined sense of rhythm and balance informs her compositions, uniting colour, form, and space in harmonious dialogue. Emi will present works from her acclaimed Eye and Butterfly series, both centred on seeing, feeling, and existing. Her canvases reveal a poetic tension between figuration and abstraction, with bold colour fields coexisting with delicate lines. Through these contrasts, Emi invites viewers to connect emotionally and interpret her imagery through personal memory and sensation.
L Gallery (Stand H10) – Suzy Q
Suzy Q, a Korean artist exploring the theme of memory, creates the artistic realm of LIMBO, where forgotten memories continue to exist and transform. Within this liminal space, rubber ducks and expressionless figures become allegories of existence and transience. Drawing on animation and comic aesthetics, Suzy Q’s compositions are rhythmic and luminous, blending pop sensibility with metaphysical depth. Forgetting, for her, is not an end but a renewal, a chance for memory to take a new shape. The result is art that is both playful and contemplative, inviting collectors to engage with visual charm and the existential questions that linger beyond it.
Art Circle Hong Kong LTD. (Stand E02) – Shun Tse
Born in 1993 in Hong Kong, Shun Tse grew up between cultures, drawing inspiration from American cartoons and Japanese manga. Working with acrylic and mineral pigments, he layers paint to achieve transparency and structural depth. Animals frequently populate Tse’s whimsical dreamscapes, recurring motifs that speak to the enduring presence of life within his fluid, imaginative worlds. By blending fantasy with the external world, he captures humour, contradictions, and complexities of human experience. His work invites laughter and reflection, offering a light-hearted yet poignant commentary on life and perception.
L Gallery (Stand H10) – Jamsan
Korean artist Jamsan bridges illustration, concept art, and documentary narrative through oil and acrylic, producing works with crisp outlines and luminous colors. Expanding his darkly poetic fairy-tale aesthetic, he crafts tension between fantasy and solitude, where chairs, roses, forests, and girls recur as symbols of memory, vulnerability, and resilience. Each motif carries a double meaning, beauty entwined with pain, stillness with longing, imagination with healing. By merging visual storytelling with painterly sensibility, inviting viewers to project their own narratives, finding solace.
Inner Light Asia (Stand D04) – Anastasia Ramirez
Born in 1993 in Tomsk, Siberia, Anastasia Ramirez now resides in Hong Kong, where the city’s contrasts, energy, and rhythm inspire her. Working primarily with acrylic and watercolour, she explores organic and urban life through two debut series at the fair this May. The Botanical Series focuses on organic forms, texture, and colour to express nature’s vitality and joy. The Urban Series captures the fleeting lights, movement, and moods of metropolitan life. Through layered textures, bold contrasts, and experimental techniques, Anastasia creates a dynamic visual dialogue that embodies the world around her. and atmosphere of the world around her.
EDiT. (Stand: G09) – Gavin Dobson
London-based Gavin Dobson creates vibrant, joyful works with texture and playfulness. Renowned for bold colour palettes, delicate mark-making, and tactile embellishments using glitter and foils, his paintings radiate celebratory energy. Rooted in personal experience and the broader LGBT+ community, Gavin offers a refreshing take on pop art. His signature Minis celebrate everyday objects infused with nostalgia and context, sparking conversation and warmth, wit, and connection.
Experience the art of connection. Join us this May at Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong to explore these works and many more, handpicked by our Fair Director and team to celebrate the diversity, creativity, and spirit of contemporary art across Asia and beyond.
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