PARSONS FINE ARTS

Stephen Kwok is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who creates situations in which contradictions between a site and the activity within it may emerge. His work approaches sites as structures—architectures, platforms, protocols—that script relations and codify behavior, and through strategies of misuse and reconfiguration, redirects the logics that sustain them. Kwok’s work has been exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; bologna.cc, Amsterdam; and Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and has participated in programs at Delfina Foundation, London; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and NEW INC, New York. His ongoing project Recreational Meetings deploys conferencing platforms to produce surreal, embodied workshops that reimagine corporate meeting culture as a site of experimental sociality. Kwok is currently the first artist embedded within New York City’s Department of Small Business Services through the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program. He teaches design at Brooklyn College and serves as Curator of Public Engagement at Dia Art Foundation.