Wong Hoy Cheong
Dicecream Magazine📷🔳Wong Hoy Cheong (b. 1960) is a Malaysian artist.
Wong Hoy Cheong works in drawing, photography, painting, performance, and film.
In his paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, performances, and installations, Wong Hoy Cheong examines the ramifications of human migration, ethnicity, and colonialism.
His work is shaped by his upbringing in Malaysia, which he calls “perhaps the most complex multiethnic and cultural country in the world,” and his schooling at American universities, where, as he describes: “For the first time, I felt I was an object rather than subject.”
Taking the point-of-view of objectified communities, Wong re-writes history to expose the stories buried within the dominant narratives.
He lives and works in Kuala Lumpur.
Current exhibitions:
21 Jul 2018 – 10 Oct 2018, Two Houses: Politics And Histories In The Contemporary Art Collections Of John Chia And Yeap Lam Yang, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
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