Academic Qualifications
PhD Candidate - “The Art and Neuroscience of Traditional Chinese Painting” (Current) University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Honours in Art and Design, First Class (2017), University of Canberra, Brisbane, Australia. “Chinese Landscape Painting and the Sublime”.
BAEd Secondary -Visual Art/History (2004), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
BA Visual Art/Fine Art -Painting (1999) , Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Exhibitions
2025 PhillipsX and HOFA Gallery, SPACES II: Capturing the Ephemera, Hong Kong
2024 Platform for Art, Art Crush Gallery, Belgium (1000 Billboards across Belgium)
2024 Piuda Art Space, Fusion of Oneness, Seoul, Korea
2024 NEAL GALLERY x NINFA, Chinese New Year - Joy City , Beijing
2023 MIAMI Art Basel Week, Transient Labs x Makers Place, Sagamore Hotel, Miami
2023 Unpaired Gallery, Spice Journeys Exhibition, Switzerland
2023 MUSEUM WEEK Réconciliation with the living NFC, Lisbon
2023 Exquisite Workers x SUPERCHIEF AI SURREALISM NYC Oculus Center
2023 A2 Accelerate Art, HOMAGE Exhibition, New York
2023 A2 Accelerate Art, HOMAGE Exhibition, Romania
2023 Bloom x MakersPlace, AI Exhibition NFC, Lisbon
2023 Obscura Dao, NFT Conference, Bali
2023 NFTNYC, The Artist’s Village, New York USA
2023 ART x MACHINE (Group Exhibition) curated by @somewhereart, FoundationApp, Metaverse
2022 MONOLITH x QUANTUM NFT Los Angeles, USA
2022 Liminal Space, (Solo Exhibition), Monolith Gallery, Metaverse
2022 Flower Gang, (Group Exhibition) curated by Anna Condo, 1stDibs, Metaverse
2022 NFT Liverpool, (Curator Keith Grossman) Adelia Art Gallery & NFT Guild, 26 April –28 August (Group Exhibition), Liverpool, UK
2018 Right Now, Onespace Gallery (Group Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2018 Afterimage, Onespace Gallery (Group Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2018 Yique, Chung Tian Temple Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2017 Liminal Space, Onespace Gallery (Honours Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2016 Renga, Woolloongabba Art Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2016 Mayo Arts Festival (Feature Artist), Brisbane, Australia
2015 Blue Water Arts Festival (Feature Artist), Sandgate, Australia
2015 Microcosm, Percolator Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2014 Itadakimasu, White Canvas Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Brisbane, Australia
2014 Hundred Year Ceiling, Nakaoyama Temple (Cultural Installation), Nakaoyama, Japan
2014 Sublime, Cardigan Bar (Solo Exhibition), Sandgate, Australia
2013 Member’s Exhibition, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
1999 Rush (Graduate Exhibition), Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane, Australia
1995 Minister for Education Excellence in Art Awards, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, Australia
Awards & Grants
FutureNow Professional Development Grant, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, 2025.
FutureNOW is an art x new technology development project lead by Council in collaboration with the creative sector from 2024 through 2027. This creative development opportunity provides early career artists and creative technologists a chance to play together in exploring work created in response to and/or specifically for a place. It explores new modes of arts practice, engagement, and presentation in a regional context through an iterative and evolving program of research, residencies, critical conversations, skills, development opportunities and creative, public outcomes.
Research Training Program Tuition Fee Offset, University of Queensland, 2020.
Research Training Program Stipend, University of Queensland, 2020.
First Class Honours, University of Canberra, 2017.
Research Scholarship, the Confucius Institute at The University of Queensland, 2012.
As a research scholar I was afforded a rare opportunity to be mentored in traditional Chinese painting by Tianjin University’s Head of Art and Architecture, and artist, Professor Dong Ya. Working one-on-one in the Professor’s personal studio, I was taught a foundation of traditional Chinese painting techniques, methods, philosophy and theory. His PhD student, (now) Dr Chu Dong translated and further transmitted the Professor Dong Ya’s teaching.
Academic Merit, Griffith University, 2004.
Teaching History Fellowship, National Gallery & National Capital Educational Tourism Project, Canberra Australia, Griffith University,(2004).
A partnership project of the National Capital Educational Tourism Project, National Gallery, Australian War Memorial and National Museum of Australia. During this fellowship I collaborated with a team of professionals, teachersand students to increase our knowledge of and draw together teaching philosophies, practical teaching methodologies and the current best practice in museum education.
Residencies
Artist in Residence, Tobo-ao Kiln, Hasami, Japan (3 months), 2013
Artist in Residence, The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China, 2013
Artist in Residence, Sanbao Ceramic Institute of Art, Jingdezhen, China, 2013
Lectures/Panels/Interviews
2024 All About Gina Choy - HChip (X) https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRKjPoRDEpJw
2023 Miami Art Basel Week - Transient Labs x Makers Place Panel, Miami USA
2023 Professional Practices in the Visual Arts Course “Your Digital Presence: Social, Media, Websites and NFTs”, panel with Gina Choy, Emily Parker, Griffith University, QLD, Australia
2023 Mars AI Art Today, Gina Choy Interview, (19thJan), https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1PlKQpegMWkxE
2022 In It For the Art: Episode 19, Gina Choy & Calen Adams (8 Dec), https://twitter.com/cooopdetat/status/1600563084565024769?s=46&t=sai8DNm8Yrt8fUUJtFaRFA
2022 AWAIC Ep.7 with Special Guests @GinaChoy_ and @etozhequez (5 Dec), https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mrGmkLqpzLxy
2022 Celebrating 25 Years of WIP –Rites of Passage, Sojourns into creativity: Performative Panel, UQ –Chair Prof Stephen Carleton, Self-Cultivating Techniques of Traditional Chinese Painting
2019 Arts & Design Honours Symposium, University of Canberra, Brisbane, Australia.
2013 Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen Lecture Series, China.
Research and Training
Gina Choy earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with a major in painting from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 1999. She later received a Bachelor of Secondary Education in Visual Art from the same institution in 2003, graduating with academic merit. Through practice-led research at the University of Canberra, she achieved First Class Honours in Art and Design in 2017. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Queensland, supported by a full research scholarship.
Gina was also the recipient of a research scholarship from the University of Queensland in which she studied Chinese landscape painting and philosophy under Professor Dong Ya at the University of Tianjin, China (2010). Choy has been an artist in residence at Toa-Bou studio in Nakaoyama (2013), Japan; Kouraku Gama, Arita Japan (2013); Sanboa Ceramic Institute (2013) and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China (2013). Her work is in private collections across the world and also part of a 100 year ceiling installation in a Buddhist temple in Hasani, Japan (2014).
In Choy’s work, her investigation of artistic practice and its potential to affect the painter’s intuitive mind and psychological attitude is of great importance. Her ongoing academic research as a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, which integrates art history and neuroscience, informs her contemporary practice in the visual arts.