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Wong Hoy Cheong
1985, Malaysia
Wong Hoy Cheong
1985, Malaysia

Wong was born in 1960 in Penang, and received a BA in literature from Brandeis University, Massachusetts, in 1982, and an M.Ed. from Harvard University in 1984. In 1986, he received an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wong’s work challenges audiences to reconsider notions of ethnicity, indigeneity, colonialism, marginalised histories and community. He has exhibited widely, including at the Singapore Art Museum (2011); Eslite Gallery, Taipei (2010); the Lyon Biennale (2009); and National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2004 and 1996). He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship (2011), was named one of the ten art and culture Leaders of the Next Millennium by Asiaweek (1999) and Cornell University has named a scholarship after him for his work as an educator (1993).