Hao Lap Yan Benjamin was born and based in Hong Kong. Hao has gained his BFA from RMIT and Hong Kong Art school. He has also received his interdisciplinary art MFA in University of Hartford in 2018. His works and projects have been exhibited and taken place in Hong Kong, China, Macedonia, Iceland and USA.
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I think of my art as a form of intervention to a pre-existing system. Through my artwork, it reveals how dominant culture shapes our understanding of nature, and society. My work often references the methodology and image from different major disciplines and fields, for instance, cartography, botanical illustration, and city infrastructure etc. In my practice, I take art as a catalyst and methodology for myself and everybody to reconsider our everyday life, knowledge, and behavior. Questioning dominant narrative, and I use it as a way to remove our presumption. As the definition of art remains to be an on-going discussion, it doesn’t rely on a particular genre, medium, and explanation. Hence, I do not select any medium as my major genre for my work, it can be a drawing, mixed media three- dimension work or a series of events. Keeping an open approach helps my work responses to specific subject matter in the most appropriate way. I believe that through different approaches and format, it can allow the audience to experience the concept in a closer and more relational way.

Physical material is important to my work since it carries stories which comprise my work. Yet physical material can be removed from my work, because the work can exist as a single object, an image, or a thought and experience in people’s hearts. It is crucial to exist in people’s hearts, because I believe that the external world is very much shaped by our internal mind.