Caroline Wong
Caroline Wong creates works in which female desire takes centre stage. Excess and sensuality find their expression in color and form. Plot and painting style mold together to create envi- ronments in which restraint and conventions fade into archaic remnants. Instead of holding back, the artist creates scenes of female empowerment, which – on a larger scale – also serve as a nod to the ephemerality of life. The works combine both the medium of drawing and painting, thus shaking up the hierarchy of genres. Wong’s use of pastel adds another layer of unorthodoxy, as its traditionally saccharine and delicate qualities are reinscribed with bold- ness and exuberance.
Wong graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021. She also obtained a Diploma in Contemporary Portraiture from The Art Academy in 2018. Awards include the Drawing Room Biennial Bursary Award (2021), The Society of Women Artists Derwent Art Prize (2018), and the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Prize (2018). She was also selected for the Castello San Basilio residency, Pisticci, IT (2023).
Her work is on view in a solo presentation titled Feline Theatre at Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, DE.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Picnics and Parties, Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2024); A Many-Splendoured Thing, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, US (2023), Artificial Paradises, Soho Revue, London, UK (2022), and Cats and Girls, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2022).
Selected group exhibitions include: You Were Bigger than the Sky, You Were More than Just a Short Time Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2023); In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022); Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021), and Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021).
Caroline Wong, born 1986 in Ipoh, MYS, lives and works in London, UK.

Studio Portrait, 2022 • Photo: Ismael Esteban Redondo
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Exhibitions
Press
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Interview with Caroline Wong by Daniel Lichterwaldt
Les Nouveaux Riches, 05/24
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Picnics, parties, and women: the art of Caroline Wong by Natalia Muntean
Odalisque Magazine, 04/24
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Caroline Wong’s Art: A Hunger for Freedom by Mariavittoria Pirera
Juliet Art Magazine, 09/23
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“Cats and Girls” by Artist Caroline Wong
Booooooom, 03/23
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To Stomach A Full Heart by Corina Wahlin
C-print, 03/2023
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Hybrid Power by Milou Allerholm
Kunstkritikk, 03/2023
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Caroline Wong’s drawings of women eating like cats challenge expectations of “restraint and decorum” by Olivia Hingley
It's Nice That, 03/2023
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Feasting with Caroline Wong by Madeleine Pollard
Plinth Magazine, 10/2022
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Noch Hingehen: Caroline Wong mit "Cats and Girls"
Tagesspiegel, 10/2022
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Was tun zur Berlin Art Week? 7 Ausstellungen, die wir euch ans Herz legen können: Caroline Wong bei Soy Capitán by Julia Meyer-Brehm
BEIGE, 09/2022
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Caroline Wong – Cats and Girls
Berlin Art Week, 09/2022
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11 Kunst-Highlights im September, die ihr nicht verpassen solltet: Caroline Wong's Cats and Girls by Insa Grüning
Mit Vergnügen, 09/2022
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Berlin Art Week Openings
Berlin Art Link, 09/2022
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MUST SEE: Caroline Wong at Soy Capitán
ARTFORUM, 08/2022
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Caroline Wong: Cats and Girls
berlin.de, 08/2022
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London Roundup by Orit Gat
Art Agenda, 05/2022
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London Gallery Weekend: the emerging galleries shaking up the capital’s art scene by Ben Luke
Evening Standard, 05/2022
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In Conversation with Caroline Wong
New Normal Projects, 02/2022
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Elephant’s Pick of October’s Essential Artists
Elephant, 10/2021
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Drawing around Food • A Socio-political & Cultural Exploration
Drawing Room Panel Discussion, 07/2021