Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in Penang, Malaysia. His research-driven projects are often situated in local geographies and engage with class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacies. By reframing everyday life through irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow. His practice is guided by the phrase “mengataskan yang kampung, kampungkan yang atas,” which can be translated as “to make fancy the village, to make village the fancy.” 

He recently participated in the Transmediale Festival – By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road and Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait. Last year, he was selected for Moving Narratives Cycle II, a programme organised by the Prince Claus Fund in collaboration with the British Council. His works were featured in Young Birds from Strange Mountains in Berlin (2025) and The Oceans and the Interpreters in Taipei, Dhaka, and Lagos (2022–2023). His solo exhibitions include The World is Your Restaurant (Kuala Lumpur, 2021) and Let Them Eat Salmon (Singapore, 2023). Hoo graduated with a BA in Photography from the London College of Communication (2010) and co-founded the Run Amok art collective (2012–17) in George Town.