CV + BIO
Min Wong
Min's sculpture and installation practice examines metaphysical and cultural esoterica of 1970’s countercultures, ‘New Age’ spirituality and recent renewed interest towards self-help and therapeutic culture. Her installations use strategies of appropriation, corporate branding techniques and nomadic meanings that are contingent and subject to the contemporary dilemma of spirituality.
Min’s practice explores utopias and esoteric practices to reimagine a renewal of connection between nature, community and spirituality in coexistence. By looking back to past and present spiritual movements, Min’s installations investigate illusory hopes, desire, failure and seeks to remodel speculative worlds as possible futures within the contemporary dystopic.
Min Wong has participated in international residencies in Spain, China and Los Angeles and recently exhibited at Housemuseum Galleries, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Verge Gallery, Hugo Michell Gallery and FirstDraft. Min has exhibited in prizes such as Churchie Emerging Art Prize and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and in 2019 was the recipient of the Sculpture prize for the Ghost Fisher Art Award Prize. Min recently exhibited in the Adelaide Biennal of Australian Art in 2022.
EDUCATION
2019-2021 Masters by Research, Fine Art, UNSW Art and Design2015-16 Honours Visual Arts, University of South Australia, South Australia
1998 Bachelor of Visual Communications (Honours), University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 52 Actions, Artspace touring exhibition, Penrith Regional Gallery
Purple Haze, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Min Wong X Shana Moulton, Cement Fondu
2021 Purple Haze, MFA examination, Clothing Store, Carriageworks
2020 Inner workout, Artspace Ideas, Platform, Sydney
2019 Karma is a bitch, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2018 Born to get, not to give, Hugo Michell Gallery
2017 If you are struggling you must be happy :), Firstdraft, Sydney Tammy and Jim, FELTspace, Adelaide
2016 Namaste bitches, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide 2015 The innocents, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Free/State, Adelaide Biennale, AGSA, Adelaide
Palismpsest, Woollahra Gallery, Sydney
2021 NEON, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Cambelltown Art Centre, Sydney
2019 Between two worlds, Newcastle Art Gallery
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Cambelltown Arts Centre,Sydney
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, IMA, Brisbane
Unique state, Central School of Art gallery
Adelaide Heroine, M Contemporary, Sydney
Enter, Houseumuseum Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Personal Best, Verge Gallery, Sydney
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT, Art Museum, Brisbane Word, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Poked by a bone in the cupboard, Stockroom Kyneton, Victoria FeltSpace Fundraising Auction, Feltspace, Adelaide
2017 Soft spot, Hard feelings, Holy Rollers Gallery, Adelaide New Werds, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
Hatched, PICA, Perth
Helpmann Academy exhibition, Drill Hall, Adelaide Collectivists, Brand Library & Art Centre, Los Angeles
Old sinners and venerated spirits, Adelaide Town Hall
2016 Recent Matters, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2015 Make Believe, collaboration with Talitha Kennedy, Blindside gallery, Melbourne
2014 City of Sydney – Crossing Boundaries, Sydney Town Hall
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
2021 Studio residency, Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney Australia Council Development Grants
Individuals and Groups
2019 Winner Sculpture Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Cambelltown Arts Centre
2018 Arts SA Independent makers and presenters grant
2017 Australia Council Development Grants Individuals and Groups Helpmann Academy grant
2016 Helpmann Academy grant
2014 Residency, Eastside International, Los Angeles 2013 Residency, Jiwar, Barcelona, Spain
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Josephine Skinner, Art Collector Magazine, Jan-Mar #99, pp. 92-93
2018 Front cover, Art Monthly, November, 2018
2016 Dr Ashley Crawford, Shrouds and Voids, Exhibition catalogue, Namaste Bitches, Fontanelle Gallery
2012 Art Monthly, back cover #252 August 2012
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Housemuseum
Artbank
Charles Darwin University collection Adelaide Council collection