I am an artist working across drawing, sculpture, installation, video, performance and writing, to explore memory, (be)longing, displacement, and the notion of home. I often start with found objects, transparent materials and discarded household items and I enjoy seeing what happens when they lead me somewhere unexpected. I might collect a plaster fragment from a house renovation site and sculpt it into a pair of eyeballs, write letters to geese in the park and befriend them using vegetables, or collect quotes from people and put them onto everyday objects as a spell to cope with the art world.
Growing up in Hong Kong, I experienced familiar places changing or disappearing amid rapid urban development and political upheaval. When I knew a place connected to my childhood was going to be demolished, I began to wonder what happened to the memories attached to it. Leaving Hong Kong to study abroad in 2019 made me think more about what it means to live between places and how our relationships with them change over time. It also shaped my interest in how artists navigate the art world and find support across different places.
You are welcome to get in touch by email at jessietam.info@gmail.com or through Instagram.
Jessie Tam (Hong Kong, 1993). Selected exhibitions: It Has to Be Apart / It Has to Be Alone (C&G Artpartment, Sheffield, 2026); The Library Is All of These (Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2025); I Don’t Know How to Love You Teach Me to Love (Das Esszimmer, Bonn, 2024); I Know It By Heart (Pointsman Art Space, Hong Kong, 2024). Tam co-founded Struggling Art Space in 2021, an artist-run initiative supporting artists through exhibitions and international collaboration. She is the recipient of the Freelands Foundation Artist Bursary (2025), Eaton Fund (2025), Emerging Artist Grant (2022) and Amarte Fund (2022). She is a contributing writer for Fourdrinier and writes through the persona Art Writer MeMe. An interview about her practice is available on Corridor8.