Amy Wong
Amy Wing-Hann Wong (b. 1981, Toronto, she/they) is an angry Asian feminist disguised as an oil painter. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise and thinking through together. She is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University.
Often inverting private and public spaces, Wong asserts ways in which a leakiness and messiness of things can aspire towards intersectional feminist and anti-colonial ways of being. Their practice oscillates between varying systems of representation to evoke non-linear, personal narratives. They often work with what they consider a bad idea or a cliché to redefine them on their own terms. Wong’s current research explores mother work as methodology and as cultural transmission.
Wong completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, MFA at York University in Toronto and post-graduate studies at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent projects include Contemporary Kids at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; _other tongues part I communication at Onsite Gallery, Toronto; and A Glitter of Seas at Dreamsong, Minneapolis.