“At the Seams of the World: Gender and Decoloniality in Hong Kong Contemporary Art” examines the relationship between gender and decoloniality in Hong Kong through objects of Hong Kong contemporary art, which exhibit the entanglements of gender and coloniality in Hong Kong as well as visualise its decolonial praxes and horizons. Countering the belief that feminist perspectives and issues related to gender are subsidiary or even unrelated to the city’s struggle for political self-determination, this dissertation argues that intersectional analyses of gender are central to the task of undoing Hong Kong’s constructs of coloniality and establishing truly decolonial horizons for the city. It traces and articulates the ways in which interlocking logics of gender, race, class, and sexuality have been utilised to constitute the city’s ideal subjects and structure its society for the perpetuation of rapacious capital accumulation. This entails the examination of Hong Kong’s colonial conditions, conceptualised through the notion of “compound coloniality” – a term to describe the compounded effect of British colonialism, Chinese imperialist coloniality, as well as Hong Kong’s own expressions of coloniality enacted by the city’s business elites, who have collaborated with both ruling powers. As Catherine Walsh and Walter Mignolo have contended and exhibited in their work, "decoloniality and decolonial thought materialized at the very moment in which the colonial matrix of power was being put in place,” meaning that coloniality and decoloniality are inherently intertwined. Thus, this analysis of compound coloniality in Hong Kong also surfaces decoloniality at the same time, both of which this dissertation argues are best located in and visualised through objects of Hong Kong contemporary art (Walsh & Mignolo, 2018). This work examines the ways in which different works of Hong Kong contemporary art visualise and guide the articulation of Hong Kong’s colonial conditions through their explorations of gender, race, class, and sexuality, which then also illuminate decolonial ideas and praxes that are needed to construct alternative ways of being for the city’s people, which can have global repercussions.