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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 environments 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 boldness 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 will be on view in her solo presentation 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), Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021).

Caroline Wong, born 1986 in Ipoh, MYS, lives and works in London.

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Exhibition

Cats and Girls • Solo show at Soy Capitán, Berlin
Caroline Wong

Studio Portrait, 2022 • Photo: Ismael Esteban Redondo

Works

Caroline Wong, New Year's Eve Dinner, 2022, pastel on yellow paper, 180 × 250 cm Caroline Wong, Cats and Girls, 2022, exhibition view, Soy Capitán Caroline Wong, Untitled, 2022, pastel on paper, 50 × 72 cm Caroline Wong, Tangyuan, 2022, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 91 × 122 cm Caroline Wong, exhibition view, Lotus Eaters, Indigo + Madder, 2022 Caroline Wong, Fruit Salad, 2022, pastel on paper, 50 × 65 cm Caroline Wong, Veronica, 2022, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 140 × 190 cm Caroline Wong, Cats and Girls, 2022, exhibition view, Soy Capitán Caroline Wong, Tagliatelle, 2021-2022, pastel on paper, 65 × 50 cm Caroline Wong, Jacqui, 2022, oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 80 × 100 cm Caroline Wong, Alison, 2022, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 140 × 190 cm Caroline Wong, Sugar Slump, 2022, oil, pastel, and acrylic on canvas, 122 × 91 cm Caroline Wong, Tteokbokki, 2022, pastel on paper, 50 × 65 cm Caroline Wong, Cats and Girls, 2022, exhibition view, Soy Capitán Caroline Wong, Cheesy Chips, 2021-2022, pastel on paper, 50 × 65 cm Caroline Wong, Antipasti, 2022, pastel on paper, 135 × 190 cm Caroline Wong, Semin, 2022, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 60 × 80 cm Caroline Wong, Hungry Woman 2, 2022, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 20 × 25 cm Caroline Wong, Betty, 2022, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 122 × 91 cm Caroline Wong, Tempura Prawns, 2021-2022, pastel on paper, 65 × 50 cm Caroline Wong, Drawing Room (After Balthus), 2021, pastel and charcoal on paper, 150 × 220 cm Caroline Wong, Drawn Out, 2021, exhibition view, Drawing Room Caroline Wong, Peach, 2021, pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm Caroline Wong, Scavengers, 2020, sennelier pastel on paper, 250 × 300 cm Caroline Wong, Birthday Party (After Foujita), 2021, pastel on paper, 272 × 322 cm Caroline Wong, Alisa in the Sewing Room, 2020-2021, oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 166 × 144 cm Caroline Wong, Drawn Out, 2021, exhibition view, Drawing Room Caroline Wong, Alisa in the Kitchen, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 190 × 180 cm Caroline Wong, Hungry woman, 2022, acrylic, oil, oil pastel and pigment on canvas, 25.5 × 20.5 cm Caroline Wong, Hungry woman, 2022, acrylic, oil, oil pastel and pigment on canvas, 25.5 × 20.5 cm Caroline Wong, watermelon, 2022 acrylic, oil, oil pastel and pigment on canvas, 25.5 × 35.50 cm Caroline Wang, Semin, 2022, oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 91 × 122 cm Caroline Wang, Semin, 2023, oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 100 × 80 cm Caroline Wang, Veronica, 2023, oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 60 × 90 cm Caroline Wang, Betty, 2022, oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 90 × 120 cm

Exhibitions
Caroline Wong • Cats and Girls • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022
Caroline Wong • Artificial Paradise • Soho Revue, London, 2022
Caroline Wong • Drawn Out • Drawing Room, London, 2021

Press

Publications

Drawn Out • Featured Artists: Caroline Wong, Kate Lyddon, Alice Maher, Richard Mark Rawlins, Joel Wyllie • Contributors: Kate Macfarlane, Jacqui McIntosh, Mary Doyle, Huma Kabakci • Drawing Room • Ard - Chuard & Norregaard • London, 2021

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