Hui Ye (born in Guangzhou, CN) is an artist and composer based in Vienna.
2004-2011 studied composition and electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduated in 2011.
2010-2018 studied Digital Arts and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, graduated in 2018.
She works with different media including experimental documentary, video and audio installation, and often address the social-political aspect of the act of listening and to examine the fluidity of individual’s social identity, as well as its reflection in technology and sonic culture. In her most recent projects, the subject matter of (digitalised) voice is essential for her research.
Ye is laureate of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018 and a co-founder of Mai Ling – a queer-feminist Asian artists collective. Her works have been recently presented at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Secession, Belvedere 21 (AT), the Jim Thompson Art Center (TH), Lothringer 13 (GE), WRO Media Art Biennial (PL) and Times Museum (CN). In 2022, she holds the fellowship of BS projects for sound art – a scholarship program hosted by the Kunsthochschule Braunschweig and the state of Lower Saxony.

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Prize | Nomination | Scholarship

2022 Braunschweig Projects Scholarship by Braunschweig University of Art and the Federal State
of Lower Saxony Germany
2020 Nomination of Follow Fluxus Wiesbaden Grant 2020
2019 Nomination of Kardinal-König Art Prize 2019
2018 Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018
2017 Jury selection of Japan Media Arts Festival
2015 State scholarship for composers by BKA – Austrian Federal Chancellery of Art and Culture
2012 Start scholarship for young artists by BMUKK – Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture
2007 Laureate of Theodor-Körner Fonds Austria

Artist in Residence

2022 SHAPE+ residency (co-hosted by Musikprotokoll), Austria/Germany
2018 Times Museum | Guangzhou, China.
2017 The Swatch Art Peace Hotel | Shanghai, China;
2016 Barim | Gwangju, South Korea

Teaching & Research Experiences 

2024- Artist and researcher at MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Spirits in Complexity – Making kin with experimental music systems, Artistic research project (conducted by Thomas Grill ) supported by FWF
of Lower Saxony Germany
2018-22 Artist and researcher at MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Creative (Mis)Understanding – Methodologies of Inspiration, Artistic research project (conducted by Weiya Lin & Johannes Kretz) supported by FWF
2016-19 Guest lecture at GAFA – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts