Jolene Mok

digital resident \ august 2027

Jolene Mok (b.1984) was born and raised in Hong Kong. An experimental artist, she uses video, film, and photography as her primary creative platforms. Mok earned her M.F.A. in Experimental & Documentary Arts at Duke University in 2013. She has been exposed to an interdisciplinary learning and working environment since her undergraduate education at the School of Creative Media, where she majored in the Critical Inter-Media Laboratory (2003-2007).

Since 2006, Mok’s works have been shown worldwide. In 2012, she was invited to join a major scientific research expedition aboard R/V Atlantis, a research vessel of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fleet, as a guest resident artist to explore deep-sea seeps off Barbados alongside marine biologists. In 2013, she took part in The Arctic Circle Residency, sailing the waters off the international territory of Svalbard. Mok was awarded the Asian Cultural Council-Jackie Chan Foundation Fellowship in 2015. In 2022, she held her first homecoming solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

Mok has been on itinerant since 2011 taking part in artist-in-residency programs nonstop. She is happy to go wherever the world welcomes her to go.