Adrian Wong will reflect on the operations of several recent and historical projects, in relation to their strategies for generating new meanings from existing bodies of knowledge—with a focus on his collaborative engagements over the last ten years. At a time in history when reason and facts are in marked decline, this talk attempts to reconcile the cognitive dissonance produced by the instinct to knee-jerk into a defense of scientific consensus and a commitment to the spaces outside of empirical inquiry.
Adrian Wong was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in 1980. Originally trained in psychology (MA, Stanford 2003), he pursued his post-graduate studies in sculpture (MFA, Yale 2005). Wong’s studio was based in Hong Kong until his return to Chicago in 2018, where he serves as an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute.
His work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center (New York), Kuandu Museum (Taipei), Kunsthalle Wien, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstverein (Hamburg), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Palazzo Reale (Milan), Saatchi Gallery (London), and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam)—and can be found in public and private collections worldwide, including the 21C Collection (Chicago), DSL Foundation (Paris), K11 Art Foundation (Shanghai), Kadist Foundation (San Francisco), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Sifang Museum (Nanjing), and the Uli Sigg Collection (Lucerne).