Caroline Wong
Caroline Wong’s work is enmeshed in itself, in herself, in the loudness and warmth of femme and queer culture. Her work is concerned with the corporeal, a study and celebration of female desire. Referencing and dismantling traditional Asian woman gender roles, Wong paints her women flush with life and passion, full with joy and greed, replete with feeling. Themes around femininity, queerness, anxiety, and the right to female pleasure, pervade her large-scale pastel drawings. Her mission is to fill that void, to feel no guilt or shame for taking what one needs and wants.
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. Selected solo exhibitions include Seasons LA, Los Angeles, US (upcoming), Ojiri Gallery, London, UK (2022), Artificial Paradises, Soho Revue, London, UK (2022), and Cats and Girls, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2022). Selected group exhibitions include Angels with Dirty Faces, Ojiri Gallery, London, UK (2022), Go Figure!, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK (2022), Eat Drink Man Woman, 180 Strand, London, UK (2022), Lotus-Eaters, Indigo+Madder, London, UK (2022), Friends and Family, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2022), In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022), The Dinner Table, San Mei Gallery, London, UK (online, 2021), ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, UK (2021), MA Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK (2021), Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021), Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021). 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).
Caroline Wong, born 1986 in Malaysia, lives and works in London.
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Press
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"ARTIFICIAL PARADISES"
Soho Revue, 10/2022
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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: The Official Website of Berlin, 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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"Words with Caroline Wong" by Lara Monro
20/2021