Wong Wai Yin

Wong Wai Yin , also known as Doris Wong Wai Yin, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. Her practice incorporates a range of media, including painting, sculpture, collage, installations, video, performance, and photography. Her work is based on autobiographical experience, episodic memory, and interventions in art history.

Background Wong Wai Yin was born in British Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004 and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom in 2005.

In 2009, while working as a project assistant at Asia Art Archive (AAA), she contributed to the research and documentation initiative Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980–1990. She returned to AAA as an artist-in-residence from 2010 to 2011. She currently teaches part-time at the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and joined the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012.

Work Wong's 2008 black-and-white video titled Tribute to Inside Looking Out – For the male artists along my way, (2 min. 24 sec., single-channel digital video, sound) is on display at M+. The work was her response to encounters with gender-based discrimination in Beijing.

Wong has exhibited her work in Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Singapore, and Guangzhou.

Personal life Wong currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She is married to artist Kwan Sheung-chi, with whom she has a son.

Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions 2009. "L'Écume des choses" – l'art de Wong Wai Yin, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China 2010. "Woofer Café Ten", Woofer Ten, Hong Kong 2011. "Becoming a Different Person Might be Hard" – A Painting Exhibition of Wong Wai Yin, iPRECIATION, Hong Kong 2011. "From Wong Wai Yin's Collection to the Hong Kong Art Archive", Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong 2016. "Without Trying", Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

Selected group exhibitions 2002. "Cho Siu-yee and Wong Wai-yin Joint Exhibition", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2003. "Fotanian", Yiliu Painting Factory, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2003. "Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2003. "Just Do It" Sharon Lam, Doris To and Wong Wai-yin Joint Exhibition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2004. "Build: HK Spirit Red White Blue", Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong 2004. "CUHK Fine Art Graduation Show", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2004. "Sculpture non Sculpture", 1a space, Hong Kong 2005. "Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2005. "Art SuperMart@Para/Site", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 2005. "Studio Visit", Bankley House Studios, Manchester, UK 2005. "Meeting Point" MA Fine Art Graduation Show, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2006. "Dream a little dream", Basement, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong 2006. "aWay" Group Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Artists, 1a space, Hong Kong 2007. "Vending Art Machine" Made in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 2007. "Copied Right", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 2007. "Time After Time", Basement, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong 2007. "97+10" Reversing Horizons, Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2007. "Exhibitions On – Fire!", Para/Site Central, Hong Kong 2007. "Variances in Singular", Too Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2007. "Fotanian: Open Studio 2007", =(o-otter studio, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2008. "Wanakio 2008", Okinawa, Japan 2008. "Reversed Reality", Worksound, Portland, USA 2008. "The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 2008. "Inside Looking Out", Osage Gallery, Singapore 2008. "Women's Work", Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 2008. "Sick Leaves" Conceptual Art Exhibition, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong 2008. "Shek Kip Mei / World: Public Housing 20/20", MOST, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2008. "Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists who reclaim space", Artist Commune, Hong Kong 2008. "Fair Enough", Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong 2008. "Sun of Beach", Wong Wai Wheel Artspace, Hong Kong 2008. "Fotanian: Fotan Artists Open Studios 2008", =(o-otter studio, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong 2009. "ISCP Open Studio", ISCP, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2010. "Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple", ART HK 10, Hong Kong 2010. "Go: The First OCAT Youth Exhibition", OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China 2010. "A Guide to Job Loss", Inheritance Projects, Shenzhen, China 2010. "FAX", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong 2011. "Primitive Craftsmanship – Contemporary Mechanism", Artist Commune, Hong Kong 2011. "Except why not just come right out and say it:", Collectors House, Heerlen, The Netherlands 2012. "Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei", Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong 2012. "Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?", SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong 2012. "Wearable Exhibition: Bring Art Everywhere", Fotan, Hong Kong 2013. "But is it Art?", "I know but I don't know.", Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2013. "The Imperfect Circle", Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 2013. "Hong Kong Eye", ArtisTree, Hong Kong 2014. "Man's Future Fund", Discover Asia, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan

Curated projects 2008. "Sun of Beach", Wong Wai Wheel Artspace, Hong Kong 2010. "Kanyu Weiti Fengshui Weiyong Sculpture Installation", Woofer Ten, ", Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong

Artist-in-residence 2008. "Wanakio 2008 ", Okinawa, Japan 2008. Worksound, Portland, USA 2009–2010. ISCP, New York, USA 2011. "From Wong Wai Yin's Collection to the Hong Kong Art Archive Hong Kong Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco M+, Hong Kong

Publications The Ten Seconds Preceding the Decision that A Can Be Made Into A Work (2016) Without Trying (2016) A place never seen is not a place (2017) Everyone's Fine (2021)