Hong Kong Students Prize

Corey Andrew Barr joined Art Central as Fair Director in 2019. A champion of Hong Kong artists, Barr has expanded the Fair’s platform to highlight local talent and underscore its position as a benchmark for aspiring galleries from around the world. He was formerly the director of a prominent Hong Kong- and London-based gallery focusing on contemporary Asian art, and prior to that, served as Specialist and Head of Sales for Phillips in New York, where he also organized exhibitions of contemporary art, photography, and design by leading international artists.

Independent Art & Cultural Practitioner
Master of Art (Human Resource Management), McQuarie University, Australia
Examiner/Assessor, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Co-opted Member, Leisure & Cultural Services Department
Video Artist

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Shivang Jhunjhnuwala started his career in video production shortly after graduating from University. In 2020 Him and Alexander Glavatsky-Yeadon co-founded Young Soy Gallery together in order to support emerging artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, Jhunjhnuwala has collaborated with a wide range of radical artists from all around the globe. In 2023, Jhunjhnuwala, co-founded another brand called VAIN Projects which aims to work with more established artists that have outgrown their emerging states. In 2024 he began working for Ovolo Hotels and Trio Capital in various creative and strategic roles.

Hong Kong Canadian interdisciplinary artist Michelle Fung’s lifelong interdisciplinary oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative in the year 2084. Her awards include the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize and semifinalist for the Print Center’s 98th Annual International Competition (Philadelphia, USA.) She had a recent solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Art Centre, the national Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Bulgaria and has held solo exhibitions at leading galleries in Australia and California, as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her short films have been selected at many international film festivals, and she has participated in international residencies including in China, the Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard, USA and Canada.