Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Fiber installation, Drawing, Painting, Mixed media
Website: hollywongart.com
Holly Wong is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in San Francisco, where she has been based for more than three decades. She was born in North Miami Beach, Florida, and studied New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received her BFA in 1993 and her MFA in 1995. She was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Wong has taken part in more than 100 exhibitions, including group shows at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Her solo exhibitions include Phoenix (2021) and Full Circle (2025) at SLATE Contemporary in Oakland, Emergence (2023) at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, Mending Body / Mending Mind at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (2023) and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn (2024), Incantations (2024) at Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, and Ascension (2026) at Broward College’s Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery in Florida. She is represented by SLATE Contemporary (Oakland), Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia), ELLIO Fine Art (Houston) and Walker Fine Art (Denver), and is a member of A.I.R. Gallery.
Her honors include a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (Established Artist, 2023), an honorable mention in the Sheridan Prize for Art (2025), a Gerbode Foundation purchase award (1998), and grants from the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the George Family Center for Healing Arts at Rowan University, Texas Medical Center and Northwestern Mutual.
Wong makes suspended fiber installations, drawing-based environments, assemblages and collaged paintings that center on healing and resilience. She combines non-traditional approaches with traditional sewing techniques tied to the history of women: building structures through sewing, then cutting them apart and resewing them, a process she relates to how life grows, breaks down and is repaired. She describes the approach as “radical repair,” and her stitching as “stitching together scars of the past as an act of resilience.”
Her work draws on Buddhism, Greek mythology and feminine archetypes from ancient cultures, as well as family history. Recent installations memorialize her mother, a survivor of domestic and sexual violence, and reflect on her own experience of trauma. The pieces are often translucent and largely white or monochrome, layering silk, organza, lace, drafting film and LED light into weightless, luminous forms. Some installations include video and sound made with collaborators, such as video by Al Wong and poetry and sound by Aya Karpińska.
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