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

2025

Time, as a Symptom, Lyles & King, New York, NY

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

UFO - Unforeseen Feelings Observed, Ruttkowski;68, 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 

Silver Art Projects Resident, 2024

FST Studio Project Grant Recipient, 2022

NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Painting, 2021


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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