Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Painting, mural
Website: chelseawong.com
Chelsea Ryoko Wong was born in 1986 in Seattle, Washington, and lives and works in San Francisco. She began her studies at Parsons School of Design in New York and completed her BFA in Printmaking at the California College of the Arts in Oakland in 2010, where she was the first recipient of the Hamaguchi Emerging Artists Fellowship at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. She is represented by Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. Her work is in the permanent collections of the de Young Museum and the Crocker Art Museum, and has been included in institutional exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California, the Asian Art Museum, and YBCA.
Wong paints large, densely populated figurative scenes in watercolor, gouache, and acrylic — busy, colorful compositions of co-mingling people drawn from real-life events and her imagination. Her paintings are celebrations of diversity, working-class community, and daily life in San Francisco: gatherings in parks, shops, backyards, and streets, rendered in a vivid, highly stylized visual language that prizes joy, acceptance, and curiosity. She is also an accomplished muralist, completing large-scale commissions at Asana, La Cocina, and for the Facebook Artist in Residence Program in San Francisco, as well as smaller murals throughout the city. Her practice is deeply rooted in her experience of San Francisco as a living community, and the city’s racial and cultural diversity is the primary subject of her work.
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