Adrian Wong

Adrian Wong (born 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an artist based in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Wong is the co-founder and director of art studio Embassy Projects.[1]

Biography

Wong has a master's degree in research psychology from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale. He teaches sculpture and critical theory at the University of California Los Angeles and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Work

Wong's works consist of installations, videos, and sculptures that draw from various subjects such as 1970's television shows and the artist's relationship to his environment, particularly Hong Kong. "The work that I tend to do is not so much abstract representational sculpture. I tend to make things as what they are. My first year in grad school, I spent a lot of time learning how to build boats," said Wong in TimeOut Hong Kong.[2] Art critic Robin Peckham stated, "The most significant aspect of his growing body of work is its willingness to play fast and loose with the hallowed if commonplace signifiers of culture and identity, loosening the binds between object and narrative, image and context in a way that contributes back to the parent culture even as it presents highly stylized and aestheticized (but never iconic) depictions of these visual styles to an imagined theatrical audience via a vaguely universal and totalizing sensibility."[3] His work has been included at the Hong Kong Sculpture Biennial, Saamlung Gallery in 2012, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Louis Vuitton Fondation pour la Création, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, LOOP Media Art Center, and Kunsthalle Wien.

In 2013 Absolut Art Bureau selected Wong to create an bar for Art Basel HK. Wong created "Wun Dun an Art Bar" that "revives, rekindles and re-imagines an older, more romantic Hong Kong of Suzy Wong, opera lounge singers and awkward waiters."[4][5]

Wong was awarded the Daniel and Mildred Mendelowitz Memorial Fellowship for the Arts (2003). In 2006 he received the Videotage FUSE Fellowship, the AiR Association/Triangle Arts Trust Residency Programme in 2008 and Detour Design Exchange Tokyo in 2010. Wong won the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2013).[6]

He teaches at UCLA Arts and Architecture Department.

Wong currently lives and works in Hong Kong.[7]

Selected Exhibitions

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Artist Website Biography". Website. 2014-11-09. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  2. ↑ "Adrian Wong". TimeOut Hong Kong. 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  3. ↑ "EXCAVATED APOCRYPHA: THE ART OF ADRIAN WONG". Leap 5. 2010-10-02. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  4. ↑ Bailey, Stephane (2013-05-21). "ADRIAN WONG'S "WUN DUN" AT ART BASEL IN HONG KONG". Whitewall Magazine. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  5. ↑ "Wun Dun: an Art Bar by Adrian Wong". Absolute Art Bureau Website. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  6. ↑ Shaw, Catherine (2014-05-27). "Adrian Wong is the first sculptor to win the Sovereign Asian Art Prize". Southern China Morning Post. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  7. ↑ Shaw, Catherine (2014-05-01). "Conversation with Adrian Wong". Ocula. Retrieved 2014-11-09.

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