Wong Wai Yin

SPRING

In addition to presenting Wong Wai Yin’s solo exhibition “Without Trying” at Spring Workshop in the summer of 2016, we are delighted to feature Wong’s collaborative work with her partner Kwan Sheung Chi in “Dismantling the Scaffold” at Tai Kwun Contemporary.

Wong Wai Yin (Doris) graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and the University of Leeds, UK (Master of Fine Art) in 2005. Wong experiments with a variety of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, installations and photography. Her work is about autobiographical experience, episodic memory and playful intervention with art history.

Wong’s selected solo shows in Hong Kong and abroad include Becoming a Different Person Might be Hard – A Painting Exhibition of Wong Wai Yin, iPERCIATION (2011), From Wong Wai Yin’s Collection to the Hong Kong Art Archive, Asia Art Archive (2011), Woofer Café Ten, Woofer Ten (2010) and L’Écume des choses – I’art de Wong Wai Yin, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China (2009).

Her works have been presented at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2015), Para Site, Hong Kong (2015), Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (2013), Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong (2013), M+, Hong Kong (2012), Collectors House, the Netherlands (2011), Taipei Biennial 2010, Taiwan (2010), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, China (2010), International Studio & Curatorial Program, USA (2009), Chinese Art Centre, UK (2009), Worksound, USA (2008), Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (2007), and MoCA Shanghai, China (2007). Wong is one of the co-founders of the Observation Society in Guangzhou.