Amy Wong

Amy Wing-Hann Wong (b. 1981, Tkaronto/Toronto, she/they) is an Angry Asian feminist disguised as an oil painter. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise and thinking through together. Wong founded the Angry Asian Feminist Gang (AAFG), a collective of Diaspora cultural producers dedicated to dialogue centred on Asian feminist concerns.

Often inverting private and public spaces, Wong asserts ways in which a leakiness and messiness of things can aspire towards intersectional feminist and anti-colonial ways of being. Their practice oscillates between varying systems of representation to evoke non-linear, personal narratives. They often work with what they consider a bad idea or a cliché to redefine them on their own terms. Current research explores mother work as methodology and as cultural transmission.

Wong completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, MFA at York University in Toronto and post-graduate studies at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They studied under esteemed artists including Pierre Dorion, Marlene Dumas, Janet Jones, Steve McQueen, Elder Duke Redbird and Fiona Tan.