CV



MING WONG


Email: mingwong*at*berlin.com

born Singapore 1971, lives & works in Berlin & Singapore

TRAINING

· MFA at the Slade School of Art, University College London, 1997-99
(Fine Art Media, Tutor: Bruce McLean)
· Diploma of Fine Arts (Chinese Art) at Nanyang Academy, Singapore, 1992-95


EXHIBITIONS (*denotes one man show)

· Life of Imitation*

Singapore Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy, June-Nov 2009

· If There Is No Audience!

Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain May-Aug 2009

· And the Difference Is

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia May-June 2009

· The Agency of Words

Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery, UK May-July 2009

· Images Festival

Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada April 2009

· Vain Efforts*

Gallery 4A, Asia Australia Arts Centre, Sydney Mar-Apr 2009

· Jakarta Biennale

Jarkarta, Indonesia 6 - 27 Feb 2009

· At Home Abroad

Singapore Art Museum, Jan - June 2009

· mononoaware*

MK Galerie Rotterdam, the Netherlands 10 Jan – 8 Feb 2009 [link]

· And the Difference Is

National University of Singapore 12 Dec 08 – 15 Feb 2009 (in collaboration with Gertrude Art Spaces, Melbourne)

· I Queerelanti

Galleria neon>campobase, Bologna, Italy 1-20 Nov 2008

· ART FORUM BERLIN

Berlin Exhibition Grounds, 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2008

· PREVIEW BERLIN

Tempelhof Airport Berlin, 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2008

· mononoaware*

MK Galerie Berlin, 5 Sept - 18 Oct 2008
[link] [review]

· Das Piraterieproblem

Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Aug-Sept 08
(curator: Gerrit Gohlke & Astrid Mania)

· Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Galerie Wendt+Friedman, Berlin July-Aug 2008
(curator: Marc Wellmann & David Keating)

· Vertraut oder Verdaut ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe June-Oct 08
(curator: Ludwig Seyfarth& Chantal Blatzheim)
· Angst Essen / Eat Fear* Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 5-27 June 2008 [review1] [review2]
· Kunstinvasion Blumengroßmarkt, Berlin 31 May - 1 June 2008
(curator: Initiative Berliner Kunsthalle)
· Filem-Filem-Filem* Singapore Fringe Festival, Jan 2008
· S.T.O.R.A.G.E: Ming Wong The Agency Gallery, London Sept - Oct 2007[link]
· Word of Mouth Curating Lab, Singapore Art Show, Aug - Oct 2007
· WE National University of Singapore Museum, July-Nov 2007
· Futurama & re-inventing tradition? Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Mar-May 2007 [link]
· A Complete Guide to Rewriting Your History 2 Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Mar-Apr 2006
· Peninsula Singapore History Museum, Feb/Mar 2006
· LabiLabu The Esplanade, Singapore Oct 05 - Jan 06 [PRESS]
· Whodunnit?* Toynbee Studios, London June 2005
· Whodunnit?* Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester 2004
· Re:Thinking:Time Peterborough City Art Museum, Peterborough 2004
· Tape291 291 Gallery, London 2004
· Glamour Windows Gallery, British Council Prague 2003 [PRESS]
· Michael Marriott & Ming Wong Windows Gallery, British Council Prague 2003 [PRESS]
· ASSEMBLY Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery 2002
· Dia E Vento Teatro do Campo Alegre, Porto, Portugal 2001 [PRESS]
· swipe2001 PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset 2001
· No Sleep till Hammersmith The Central Space, London 2001
· Cultural Advancement Century Gallery, London 2001
· ROSL Scholars' Exhibition Royal Over-Seas League, London & Edinburgh 2000
· EAST International Norwich Gallery, Norwich 2000 [PRESS]
· Hello Kitty Kitty Bang Bang* Watermans Arts Centre, London 2000


SCREENINGS/EVENTS

· Stage of Desire

Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung M.1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany 2009

· S1 Salon 2009

S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK 2009

· VideoVortex3

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 2008

· Projecto MONOLOGS

Galatina, Italy 2008

· Film Programme

Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany 2008

· Damn! I Wish I’d Done That!!

Project Space 176, London, UK 2008
Chapter, Wales, UK 2008

· 100 Tage=100 Videos

GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany 2006

· The Mothership Collective

South London Gallery, UK 2006

· Lassie Come Home

Camden Arts Centre, London UK 2006

· HOMOFONIA

The British Library, London, UK 2005

· The Acton Art Crawl

Acton Town, London, UK 2002

· Camden Remix

Camden Town, London, UK 2001

· Waterwall

Regents Canal, Kings Cross, London, UK 2001

· TOW

Millenium Festival Project, Camden Lock, London, UK 2000


AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES

· Special Mention (Expanding Worlds), 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 [link]
· Awarded the Wollita Kulturpreis 2008 in Berlin by Wolfgang Müller & Françoise Cactus [link]
· One year residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (fr Aug 2007)
· Nominated for Jerwood Artists Platform 2006
· The Fire Station Residency and Bursary, awarded by ACME Studios. (Apr 2005)
· Pearson Creative Research Fellowship, at the British Library. (Nov 2003 - Feb 2005)
· 'Silent Films' commission from Statement Media Arts, Bath. (Oct 2003)
· London Artists Film & Video Award from Film London. (2002/2003)
· Combined Arts Award from London Arts for The Acton Art Crawl. (2002)
· PVA MediaLab commission & residency for new media festival swipe2001. (2001)
· Big Screens Year of the Artist Residency, Arts Council England/ACAVA (2001)
· Nominated for Beck's Futures ICA Art Award 2001
· ACAVA First Base Studio Award (2000)


ART EDUCATION PROJECTS

· Guest Lecturer, Universität der Künste, Berlin (Nov 2008)
· Guest Lecturer, Fine Art Photography Dept, Camberwell College of Arts (Dec 2006)
· Education project in conjunction with Runa Islam: Conditional Probability exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (Nov 2006)
· Education project in conjunction with Nick Relph/Oliver Payne exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (Sept 2005)
· Digital imaging project and commission at Lister School, organised by the Photographers Gallery & Creative Partnerships East.
(Mar-Apr 2004)
· Inter-Faith digital art project, with Churchill Gardens Youth Club & Avenues Youth Centre, organised by Serpentine Gallery & Westminster City Council.
· Digital art project at Frank Barnes School for the Deaf, organised by The Roundhouse, Camden Council & Plugfish. (Jan-Mar 2003)
· Artist-in-residence at Serpentine Gallery, collaborating with students from Quintin Kynaston School and Royal Brompton Hospital School, London, UK. (2002)
· Digital art project and commission at Acton High School following a talk by the father of Stephen Lawrence, organised by ACAVA, London, UK. (2000/2001)


THEATRE WORK

· Selected for international residencies at the Royal Court Theatre in London (1995) and the Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature, in New York City (2000).
· Professional playwright in Singapore. Plays include Balls (1998), Ka-Ra-you-OK? (1996) & Wayang Sayang (1993).
· Wrote the book for Chang & Eng - the Musical based on the lives of the Siamese Twins, which has been presented in Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur. (1997-2001)
· Guest artist at Singapore Theatre Festival 2006. Showed video installation Four Malay Stories at Drama Centre, Singapore, Aug 2006.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / WEBLINKS

· Life of Imitation    exhibition publication for 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009
· Broadsheet    exhibition preview by Adele Tan, vol 38 no 2, June 2009 [article]
· ArtAsiaPacific    preview for 53rd Venice Biennale ‘Cinema Paradiso’ by Philip Cornwell-Smith, May/June 2009
· ARTERI  artist profile ‘Ming Wong’s Four Malay Stories’ 03.06.2009 [link]
· Nafas art magazine    exhibition review ‘Jakarta Biennale 2009 - An “Arena” for a Hectic City’ by Enin Supriyanto [link]
· www.nzartmonthly.co.nz   exhibition review by Lydia Chai, April 2009
· Boonscafe   exhibition review ‘A Mirror of the Banal and Contemporary’ 05.04.2009 [link]
· At Home Abroad   exhibition publication, Singapore Art Museum, 2009
· The Jakarta Post   exhibition review ‘The Jakarta Biennale XIII: A visionary breakthrough’ by Carla Bianpoen, 12.02.2009 [article]
· Zitty Berlin Das Jahhrbuch 2009   interview with Matthias von Viereck, 2009 [article]
· be magazin   exhibition review ‘Hamlet Or Omelet’ by Karin Schulze, #15 / 2008
· And The Difference Is   exhibition publication, NUS Museum/Gertrude contemporary art spaces, 2008
· ArtAsiaPacific   exhibition review by Astrid Mania, Nov/Dec 2008 [article]
· Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art   'Vain Efforts: Ming Wong in conversation with Sally Lai', Nov 2008 [article]
· 21 : Discussions with artists of Chinese descent in the UK   published by Chinese Arts Centre, UK 2008
· artnet.de   exhibition review 'Fragebogen Essen Seele Auf' by Ludwig Seyfarth, Sept 2008 [link]
· Art Review magazine   exhibition review 'Ming Wong - Eat Fear' by Axel Lapp, Sept 2008 [article]
· artmagazin.de   featured artist in 'Radar' by Wolfgang Müller, Sept 2008 [link]
· SLEEK magazine #19 & website, Summer 2008, Berlin [link]
· Boonscafe   exhibition review 'Filem-Filem-Filem by Ming Wong' 28.01.2008 [link]
· Word of Mouth   exhibition publication, Curating Lab/Singapore Art Show, Aug-Oct 2007
· WE   exhibition publication, National University of Singapore Museum, July-Nov 2007
· Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art   fall issue, Taiwan/Canada Sept 2004
(Ticking the Boxes: Definition and Categorisation in the Work of Chinese Artists in the UK; Sally Lai, author) [PRESS]
· British Library: http://bllearning.co.uk/live/creativeresearch/ming/
· Everything Magazine   contributing artist, UK 2002 [PRESS]
· The Arts Magazine   article contribution (Beyond Disciplines), Singapore 2000
· EAST International   exhibition catalogue, UK 2000