Patrick Sun

Property developer Patrick Sun is best known as the founder of the pioneering Sunpride Collection, which he founded with the aim of using art as a force for social change​​—in particular, to advance gay rights around Asia. Sun had previously collected traditional Chinese ink art, but pivoted in 2014 to work with LBGTQ+ themes from Asian artists—and increasingly also those from elsewhere—which he uses as a non-confrontational way to open a dialogue about LBGTQ+ issues in sometimes conservative societies.

Sun first became interested in art after working on a property project, the Kinwick Centre, on Hollywood Road, described as Hong Kong’s gallery ground zero. He was behind the groundbreaking LBGTQ-themed exhibition Spectrosynthesis at Taipei’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2017, and subsequently took it to Bangkok as Spectrosynthesis II—Exposure of Tolerance, in 2019. He is planning a major exhibition with Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, scheduled to open in December 2022.

Sun is also a member of the Tate’s Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee, the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Circle, and M+’s Council for New Art.