LILY WONG

b. 1989, Seattle, WA 

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

lilywong5459@gmail.com

Education

2020 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY

2011 BFA Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2024 The Echo’s Return, Galleria Poggiali, Milan, Italy 

2023 Own Vortex, Lyles & King, New York, NY

2022 I Will Wade Out, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

The Beginning Place, Galerie LJ, Paris, France

2021 I Wasn’t There, Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA

Lunations, two-person exhibition with Ian Faden, Harper’s Gallery, New York, NY 

2020 Built For Love, Kapp Kapp,  New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Tomorrow Is Already Behind Us, Lyles & King, New York, NY

2024 Alien, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

Phantom Rooms, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

TEACH ME HOW TO FISH, Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong

2023 Red Thread, Latitude Gallery, New York, NY

The Minotaur’s Daydream, Semiose, Paris, France

2022 Wonder Women curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffery Deitch, Los Angeles, CA 

Wonder Women curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffery Deitch, New York, NY 

Women of Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX 

I is Other, Lyles and King, New York, NY

2021 In the Margins curated by Anne Laure Lemaitre, Kapp Kapp, New York, NY

Home Cooking curated by John Yau, Laisun Keane, Boston, MA

Universes 4 curated by Sasha Bogojev, Galerie Droste, Paris, France

Towards a More Beautiful Oblivion, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY

Queerness Out T/Here, Tong Art Advisory, New York, NY

Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2020 12 Artists, Harper’s Apartment, New York, NY

Quixotic, Ramp Gallery, London, England 

Al Fresco, New Release Gallery, New York, NY

Melancholympics, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

No Time Like the Present, online exhibition, Public Gallery

2019 Jet Lag, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Wild at Hand, HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Bonjour Tristesse, Barney Savage Gallery, New York, NY

SKINS, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Bathing, Planthouse, New York, NY

A World of People, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

LOVE 2018: Purple Hearts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY 

2017 SOFT ANIMAL, Field Projects Pop-Up, New York, NY

2016 Weird Women Who Draw, Windhorse Gallery, Kansas City, MO


Awards and Residencies 

2024 Silver Art Projects Resident

2022 FST Studio Project Grant Recipient 

2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Painting 


Public Collections

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA

Fundación MEDIANOCHE0, Granada, Spain

Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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