Adrian Wong (artist)

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Adrian Wong
王浩然
Born1980 (age 42–43)
Chicago, Illinois [1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Stanford University
Yale School of Art
Website www.adrianwong.info

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 the Embassy Projects art studio. [2] Adrian Wong is a tenured Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). [3]

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Biography

Wong has a master's degree in research psychology from Stanford University and a master of fine arts from Yale. He teaches sculpture and critical theory at the University of California Los Angeles and Virginia Commonwealth University.[ citation needed ]

Work

Wong's works consist of installations, videos and sculptures that draw from various subjects such as 1970s 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. [4] The art critic Robin Peckham wrote, "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." [5] 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.[ citation needed ]

In 2013, Absolut Art Bureau selected Wong to create a bar for Art Basel Hong Kong. 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." [6]

Wong was awarded the Daniel and Mildred Mendelowitz Memorial Fellowship for the Arts in 2003. He received the Videotage FUSE Fellowship in 2006, the AiR Association/Triangle Arts Trust Residency Programme in 2008 and Detour Design Exchange Tokyo in 2010. Wong won the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2013. [7]

He teaches at UCLA Arts and Architecture Department.[ citation needed ]

Wong currently lives and works in Hong Kong. [8]

Selected exhibitions

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2016

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References

  1. ↑ Adrian Wong, Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Artist Website Biography". Website. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "awong6". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  4. ↑ "Adrian Wong". TimeOut Hong Kong. 12 May 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "EXCAVATED APOCRYPHA: THE ART OF ADRIAN WONG". Leap 5. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Bailey, Stephane (21 May 2013). "ADRIAN WONG'S "WUN DUN" AT ART BASEL IN HONG KONG". Whitewall. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
    - "Wun Dun: an Art Bar by Adrian Wong". Absolute Art Bureau. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Shaw, Catherine (27 May 2014). "Adrian Wong is the first sculptor to win the Sovereign Asian Art Prize". Southern China Morning Post. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  8. ↑ Shaw, Catherine (1 May 2014). "Conversation with Adrian Wong". Ocula. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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