About

Lydia Wong is a Hong Kong-born artist based in London. Working across sculpture, video, installation, and performance, she explores how identity and a sense of place are shaped and preserved, particularly in the face of political erasure.

Drawing on Taoist geomancy and Feng Shui, she has flown crab-shaped kites on drones through open skies - embodied archives sent to the other world - and set a paper effigy of a giant blue flower crab alight as a fiery offering of memory to the afterlife.

These acts of resistance and transformation speak to her concerns around the erosion of civil liberties, particularly the censorship of language, memory, and history.

Awards:

Selected Exhibitions

Crab, Ascend! (2024) - Somers Gallery, London - Solo Exhibtion
Channelling: Studiomakers Commission (2023) - Frieze Art Fair, London - Group Commission
NO SMOKE WITHOUT _ _ _ (2022-2023) - 60 Conduit Street - Group Exhibition, supported by Hypha Studios
Gertrude Presents (2022) - Truman Brewery - Group Exhibtion
Crab, Alight! - Zygon Projects (2022) - Solo performance and documentation
Studio Maker's Award Show - Tiffany’s Flagship Store (2019) - Group Show
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show (2019) - Group Show
“Stomach that Can Stomach You” - Deptford Creek (2019) - Group Show
Gold X - Deptford X (2018) - Group Show
Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show (2018) - Group Show
“Out on a Limb” - Broadway Fields (2018) - Group Show
"YA" - Annexed Industry (2017) - Solo Show
"Illuminate" - British Library (2012) - Group Show
"100 Years of Printmaking at CSM" - Lethaby Gallery (2012) - Group Show
"The Art of "Lost Words" Peninsula Arts Gallery (2011) - Group Show
"Illustration Awards Exhibition" – V&A Museum (2010) - Group Show
"MA Communication Design Degree Show" - Mall Galleries (2008) - Group Show

Education:

Master of Fine Arts - Goldsmiths (2019)
MA Communication Design (Illustration) - Central Saint Martin's (2008)
LLB Law - London School of Economics (2006)

Contact:
lydwong@gmail.com