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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 print media, painting, fermentation, and poetry. 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, both as the origin of production and the source of repetition and mutation of form and ideas.

Wong received their MFA from Western University in London, ON, where their thesis research was awarded a SSHRC grant. They were a finalist for the 2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and they were the 2019 Pope Artist in Residence at NSCAD. Wong would like to thank the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.

They are also one half of Potomo Press.