Biography

Joy Wong is an artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto with Hong Kong/Cantonese settler heritage. Focusing on material connections with the shifting physicality of the body, they are interested in precarity and fluctuating surfaces, and have worked in painting, print media, and sculpture. Intrinsic to their material research are the impressions on the corporeal made from a queer and diasporic experience. Personal history informs research about what it means to reckon with a body in space, meditate on the abject, and navigate the meeting point of preservation and destruction. Lately they have been investigating the notion of the matrix through fermentation and biomateriality, both as the origin of production and the source of repetition and mutation of form and ideas. 

Wong joined the Department of Visual Art and Art History in 2024 as a CLA Sessional Assistant Professor in Studio, teaching painting and drawing. They received their MFA from Western University in London, ON, where their thesis research was awarded a SSHRC scholarship. They were a finalist for the 2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and were the 2019 Pope Artist in Residence at NSCAD (NS) and 2022 Open Studio Mid-Career Hexagon Fellow (ON). They have held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts (AB), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (ON), and the St. Michael Printshop (NL).They have received grants from the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Most recently, they were part of the group exhibition, like heirlooms, at the Latcham Art Centre that was shortlisted for a 2025 GOG Exhibition Award.

Website: www.buomhof.com