Wong Kit Yi
Wong Kit Yi (黃潔宜) is a New York-based artist born in Hong Kong. She graduated from the MFA program at Yale University and moved to New York in 2012. She regards growing up in Hong Kong as a major influence on her work. Wong is inspired by the sea of her mother’s random thoughts, her spirituality, and her proactive business strategy.
Solo shows include: Futures, Again, P!, New York (2017), and Sandwich Theory: convertible painting series, a.m. space, Hong Kong (2016). Her works have been included in group projects such as Survival Kit 9, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2017), In Search of Miss Ruthless, Para Site, Hong Kong (2017), and Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum, New York (2014). Her film A River in the Freezer (2017) was collected by the Kadist Art Foundation. She is the 2017/18 Shift Resident at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, where she seeks biological answers to metaphysical questions.