After spending his early years in Hong Kong and Scotland, Hiram To began art making in the mid-1980s. When he moved to Australia, he commenced a career where his works were widely exhibited in public galleries across the country and internationally, with works acquired by institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, Powerhouse Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery. 

He has exhibited internationally, including one person shows at London’s Camden Arts Centre and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. In 2007, he was one of three artists represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale. For the past decade, he has also work simultaneously in the fields of journalism, commercial writing and corporate communications in Hong Kong.

This work, first presented at the Venice Biennale in 2007, includes 3 large-scale photo objects using lenticular transparencies, of which the images change as the viewer walks around the work. The piece is a multi-layered statement involving the concepts of illusion, changing identities and China's Cultural Revolution. The lights on these works flicker in a continuous sequence.

Novelist Christopher Priest's literary concept of a magic art -- The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige-- are rendered into three large photo objects which are part sculpture, but also alluding to TV game show sets. Borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock's concept of the McGuffin, three fruits serve as stand-ins for two rival magicians from 100 years ago -Chung Ling Soo (a New Yorker who adopted the public personality for close to two decades) and Ching Ling Foo (a magician from Beijing), as well as the art curator Christian Leigh (who curated the Venice Biennale show "I Love You More Than My Own Death" in 1993 before disappearing).