Amy Wong BFA
amywongwebsite.blogspot.com

ARTIST STATEMENT
As a subjective approach to social ideas, my paintings and drawings are investigations into plurality, a knowing romanticism, and a personal politic in the attempt to connect seemingly disparate points together. My points of departure are in existential moments, a sense of humour, and balancing bitchy feelings with soft ones. Through the subversion of original matrices from eclectic sources, in this way I contemplate life and the inevitable clichés of life, in a mix of ‘high’ and ‘low’. Asserting a sardonic, but ultimately hopeful sensibility.

EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
October 2007-April 2008 Chinese European Art Center Artist’s residency. Xiamen, China
January 2005-December 2006 De Ateliers Artist’s residency. Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 2000-May 2004 Concordia University BFA Studio Arts with distinction. Montreal, Canada
September 1995-June 2000 Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute OSSD gifted program. Toronto, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
September-November 2008 Everything is Everything: Ace Art Inc. Winnipeg, Canada
March 2008 Work on Wonder: Chinese European Art Center. Xiamen, China
September 2007 Amy Wong, Paintings: Galerie Van Wijngaarden Hakkens. Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 2006 Have A Heart (with karaoke installation co-organized by Marlene Dumas): De Ateliers. Amsterdam, Netherlands
July-August 2004 Amy Wong and Jen Storey of the Young People’s Foundation: Pi. Montreal, Canada
September 2003 A Show of Decadent Things: Gallery X. Montreal Canada
October 2002 Amy the Cunt, Dessa the Shit: Gallery X. Montreal Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Date to be confirmed Forthcoming: Shang Yunsu Gallery. Beijing, China
May 2009 Forthcoming: Galerie Werner Whitman. Montreal, Canada
February 2009Forthcoming: Energy at Lennox Contemporary. Toronto, Canada
December 2008 Forthcoming: Go Yang Exhibition Space. Go Yang, South Korea
October 2008 World Open Art Festival: Seoul Museum of Art. Seoul, South Korea
August 2008 Salon des Arts: Osheaga Music Festival. Montreal, Canada
May 2008 Beijing International Art Exposition China World Trade Center. Beijing, China
May 2008 Art Amsterdam, Gallery Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Booth: Kunst RAI. Amsterdam, Netherlands
March-April 2007 Painting?: Galerie Van Wijngaarden Hakkens. Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 2007 Light Show: Galerie Headquarters. Montreal, Canada
December 2006 Rembrandt de remix: Arti et Amicie. Amsterdam, Netherlands
October-December 2006 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (Queens Prize for Painting): Gementemuseum. Den Haag, Netherlands
October 2006 Rodney Graham Band: Fractal in collaboration with Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Montreal, Canada
January 2006 Redial: Drake Hotel. Toronto, Canada
September 2006 Salon des Arts: Osheaga Music Festival. Montreal, Canada
November-December 2004 L.A. Show: Salon Vert, Montreal, Canada. And Jeff Electric Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
November 2004 Bridging The Gap: The Glasshouse. Pomona, United States
November 2004 All Tomorrows Parties: The Queen Mary II. Long Beach, United States
September 2004 Days are Numbered and Aftermath: Galerie Accidentale. Montreal, Canada
July 2004 The Young Peoples’s Foundation Yearbook Launch: Galerie Accidentale, Montreal, Canada
February 2004 Everybody Else Is Wrong (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard): Pavilion Projects. Montreal, Canada
December 2003 The Young People’s Foundation: 101 Maguire. Montreal, Canada
November 2003 Y.P.F. Inauguration: 5217 St. Laurent. Montreal, Canada
June 2003 Pants on Fire! Rada Gallery. Montreal, Canada
May 2003 Bookmobile Silent Auction: The Long Hall. Montreal, Canada
April 2003 Les Debutantes!: The Culture Vacuum. Toronto, Canada
November 2002 November Rain: The Roy Street Collective. Montreal, Canada
March 2001 and March 2002 Art Matters: VAV Gallery. Montreal, Canada
February 2001 and February 2002 Activist Art Week: VAV Gallery. Montreal, Canada

PRIZES/AWARDS
2007 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant for Visual Artists
2006 De Ateliers Stipendium Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst shortlist Den Haag, Netherlands
2005 De Ateliers Stipendium Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 Faculty of Fine Arts Development Fund Bursary Montreal, Canada
2002 Peter Glasheen Memorial Bursary Montreal, Canada