Stephen Wong

Stephen Wong was born in 1986 and gained the BA in Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008.

To him, the answer to ‘Why don’t you just paint the “real” landscape rather than this fictitious space?’ is very simple: the paintings are about the world more realistic than the “real” one. It is so easily found that people playing with their portable video games when they are on train or on the road. Stephen thinks that those people would get closer with the natural area in video game’s world than the one which our bodies can touch with, and although people who play the video games can go through many places in it, their mind of participation in game are bound by the original game rules, thus it is passive in nature. In his works, he is trying to “investigate” he relation between control and being controlled, so he sets up his own game rule inside the fictitious world. It seems that you are driving a car to enjoy different beautiful scenes, but in fact you are just playing according to the game rules.

Selected exhibitions
2006
Piecemeal 2, Dual Exhibition of Stephen Wong and Roy Ng
Piecemeal, Dual Exhibition of Stephen Wong and Roy Ng
The Annual Exhibition of the Fine Arts Department 200

2008
Bystander Somewhere (Solo Exhibition)
New Trend, Group Show of Hong Kong Art Graduates

2009
Hiking Arte (Group Show)
Dwelling (Group Show)
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Point to Point Site Specific Art Project (Group Show)
Fotanian: Fotan Artists Open Studios 2009

2010
Tasting Hong Kong: Hong Kong Toy (Group Show)
Haven’t you Heard (Group Show)
Stretched Connotations (Group Show)

2011
Someone bending the machine: An exhibition responding to the artworks of Chow Chun Fai (Solo Exhibition)
No Netween (Group Show)