Henry Chu

Henry Chu is a Hong Kong–based new media artist. He graduated from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering programme at the University of Auckland, and he founded digital design studio pill & pillow in 2004. Henry's digital creations received more than 200 local and international awards including recognition at the Cannes Lions, Webbys, and One Show.  Henry always works with data, music and body movements. His iPad music app "Squiggle" was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2011. In 2020 Henry created a karaoke generator "Canto Cocktail" for the M+ Museum commission. In 2021 he presented "Blockchain Piano" in the Digital Art Fair Asia, which converts crypto price into music in real-time, and allows visitors to buy crypto through playing a song.  In 2022, he received multiple commissions, which includes “Wind Piano” - Audemars Piguet 50 Years of Royal Oak exhibition, “I’m waiting to blossom” - HSBC Open to Art, “Portrait Play” - Hong Kong Museum of Art, “Quadtree series” - Bank of China HK and “SURIV” - HKU Faculty of Medicine. His video work “Flower World” was sold at a Sotheby’s auction on 1 Nov 2022. He has been a speaker at Business of Design Week, TEDxKowloon, and TEDxTaipei.