magdalen wong
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Lives and works in Hong Kong

 

EDUCATION

2005 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2003 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Sunrise Sunset, Corner Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Shift, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong

2010
Redmill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012
NO LONGER HUMAN, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
hi • a • tus, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

2011
i can't go on, i must go on, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL, USA
TEAF'11 : Taehwa-river Eco Art Festival, Hzone, Ulsan, South Korea
Closer & Closing, The National Art Studio, Goyang, Seoul, South Korea

2010
Ideas I Have, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, USA
2010 International Exhibition of the 11th DMZ Art Festival, Seokjang-ri Art Gallery, South Korea
Double Happiness: A Story of Siamese Cities, Studio Double Happiness and OV Gallery, Hong Kong
4 Videos in a Space, Experimenta, ArtWalk 2010, Hong Kong
Heritage x Art x Design, Hulu Culture, Former Police Married Headquarters, Hong Kong

2009
i.e. presents: The 7th Annual Midwestern Assorted Produce Snuff Shorts Film Triennial,
Boots Contemporary Arts Space, St. Louis, MO, USA
i.e. illusion, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, USA
cheapart gallery, Art-Athina: International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Greece
Project Red, A-Link Gallery, Hong Kong

2008
Super Art Team HK: Hooray, October Contemporary 2008, 1a Space, Hong Kong
Domestic Affairs, Galleri 21, Malmo, Sweden
Only Blue Dear Lonely American, Alagon Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
What are you doing where?, Para/site Art Space at Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Hong Kong

2007
Art Response to 14 Qks, Para/site, Hong Kong
ie:Between, Harold Washington College's President's Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
Restore, October Contemporary 2007, 1a Space, Hong Kong
i.e.llusion, 1a Space, Hong Kong
97+10: Hand Baggage, Videotage, MOCA, Shanghai
Our Voices, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2006
Read Difference, Wah Leun Industrial Building, Hong Kong
art 44/46, Public art exhibition hosted by Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce and Chicago Department of Environment, Chicago, IL, USA
Working Frameworks, Traveling show venues: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH, Sky Lab, Columbus, OH, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA
Dream a Little Dream, Para/site, Hong Kong
i.e. group show, The Secret Show Series, Nashville, TN, USA
i.e. : The Merger and Individual Video Works, Gallery Upstairs, Columbus, OH, USA
Asian Traffic: line-feed, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong

2005
Experiment 400/5, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA
20th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Tyler, TX, USA, Michelle Grabner, juror
this this this this this this this & this, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, USA

 

PERFORMANCES

2009
Collection: Discarded Memoir, Woofer Ten, Shanghai Street, Hong Kong

2008
Anima: The Feminine Underground, Videotage, Hong Kong
ArtWalk, ArtWalk 2008, Hong Kong

2007
Our Voices, Fringe Theatre, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
Noufaux Riche, Baby Bar, Hong Kong
Take Off the Headphone & Turn to 10, Videotage, Hong Kong

2006
Listening, REC room, Videotage, Hong Kong

2004
Performances and Videos, Gallery 2, black box theater, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Institute Gala, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
One Night Stand, 2nd Annual PAC/Edge Festival 2004, Athenaeum Theater, Studio 2, Chicago, IL, USA
Unlucky in Love, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL., USA

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / TALKS

2011             Thank You Art Day 11'
                    Guest speaker, A Space, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
2011             Asian Pacific Artists Fellowship
                    The National Art Studio, Goyang, five months, Seoul, South Korea
2010             Freeman Foundation Asian Artists' Fellowship
                    Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, two months, Vermont, USA
2010             Asia Art Archive
                    Artist talk, Hong Kong Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong
2008            1st International Openart Residency
                    Cheap Art Gallery, Eretria, Greece
2005 2005     Hayward Prize
                    The American Austrian Foundation, Salzburg Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria
2003-2005     Trustee Merit Full Scholarship
                    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
1999 – 2003   Trustee Scholarship
                    Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
2002             Samson Feldman Scholarship in Art Education
                    Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

October 2011      I can't go on, I must go on @ Tempus Project, Art Taco, art-taco.blogspot.com
April 2011          Fragments and Interventions, Art Slant, China, artslant.com
March 2011         Shift, exhibition review, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Going Out, p. 10)
June/July 2010     Agency of Unrealized Projects: Hong Kong Division, LEAP, China, p. 154
March 2010         Art About, KangaNews, Australia, p. 62
Sept./Oct., 2008   In the studio: Adrian Wong and Magdalen Wong, Time Out Hong Kong, p. 68
May/June, 2007    Our voices/ Nos voix: Un project de Loic Serot
                         Paroles, Alliance Francaise de Hong Kong, p. 22-24
April 2, 2006      Asian Traffic (article in Chinese), The Sun (Hong Kong), p. E6-7
April 1-2, 2006   "Just follow the signs", Weekend Standard (Hong Kong), v.1, no.48, p. W38-39
March 31, 2006   "Asian Traffic", HK Magazine, no. 620, p. 20