ART DÜSSELDORF • 11.04.–14.04.2024

We are pleased to participate in Art Düsseldorf 2024 with a solo presentation featuring Caroline Wong.

Caroline Wong (b. 1986, Malaysia) creates works in which female desire takes centre stage. Excess and sensuality find their expression in colour and form. Plot and painting style mould together to create environments where restraint and conventions fade into archaic remnants. 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 the mediums of both drawing and painting, thus shaking up any hierarchy of genres. Use of pastel adds another layer of unorthodoxy, as its traditionally saccharine and delicate qualities are re-inscribed 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).

Selected solo exhibitions include: Hungry Women, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2024); Picnics and Parties, Gallery 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 Malaysia, lives and works in London, UK.