Los Angeles-based artist Diana Shuiu Wong was born and raised in 1940s Hong Kong. Wong’s interest in art and talent for drawing was apparent at the age of five. Throughout her childhood, she studied calligraphy, enriching her passion for art. Wong studied fine art close to home until her deepening interest in modern Western art, especially impressionism, led her to the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, in 1957, and later the Royal School of Art in London. Wong returned to Hong Kong and traveled to New York and Los Angeles, where she set up permanent residence in 1970. Later in 1985, Wong opened a gallery of her own in Santa Monica. Since settling in Los Angeles, Wong has established herself as an international local artist who balances traditional Chinese and contemporary Western aesthetics.

While Wong’s classical training in both Chinese and Western painting formed the basis for her techniques, her study of the I-Ching offered her a decisive break from traditional modes as well as new creative directions. In 1962, Wong began to experiment beyond the conventions of her formal art training to explore the liberating complexity of abstraction. Discovering that she could express pride for her heritage and culture through her work, Wong has also found self-empowerment through her art making. Wong’s most recent work ventures boldly into abstraction while grounded in nature and the elements. Her striking images, like color-flooded snapshots of the cosmos, explore universal questions about being and balance.

ABOUT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS

JUN 2020 Kylin Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
OCT 2019 Helms Design Center, Los Angeles, CA ,USA
MAR 2015 LA ArtCore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MAY 2012 LA ArtCore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
APR 2012 “Glass Labyrinth”, the Shang Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
MAY 2010 ADC Building Bridges Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AUG 2008 Gallery Ora-Ora, Beijing, China
MAY 2008 Total Art gallery, Shenzhen, China
MAR 2006 Chinese American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
APR 2005 “Retrospective” Museum of Art, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
MAY 2000 “Entrance/Emergence” 456 Gallery, New York, USA
APR 1999 “Paper Works” L A ArtCore Brewery, Los Angeles, USA
APR 1998 “The Journey Within” Galleria Mazzocchi, Parma, Italy
OCT 1997 “Labyrinth of Migration” Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, Fullerton, CA, USA
MAY 1997 “Blue and Gold: A Tribute to Hong Kong” Trigram Gallery, Hong Kong, China
APR 1995 “Wonders of Heaven” Galleria Prospectiva, Milan, Italy
JUL 1994 “Wonders of Heaven” National Gallery, Beijing, China
JUN 1992 “Cosmos” Seibu Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
JUN 1992 “Cosmos” Filipin Gallery, Milan, Italy
APR 1989 “New Works: The Pacific Rim Exhibit” Gallery Q + 1, Tokyo, Japan
APR 1988 “Ten Years Work in Retrospective” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
SEP 1988 “Ten Years Work in Retrospective” Alisan Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, China
MAR 1987 “The Peng Series” Midge Carr Art Center Gallery, New York Institute of Technology, New York , USA
MAR 1983 “California Trails” Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
NOV 1969 “Paintings by Diana Wont” National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

NOV 2014 “Metro Archway, Silver Line—Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA, USA
JUL 2011 “Glass Labyrinth” - A Permanent Installation of Steel and Glass; Shan Yuen Art Center & Museum; Beijing, China

INSTALLATIONS AND FILMS

JUN 2015 “All Seasons Become One”

AWARDS:

2015: Best Short Film, Albuquerque Music and Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

2016: Best Narrative Short Film, Fine Art Film Festival, Venice, CA, USA

2016: Best Fine Art Film/Open Art, Short Film Festival, Düsseldorf, Germany

MAY 2007 “The Bliss Table”, Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
APR 1999 “Creation and Dissolution” Art Performance, LA ArtCore Brewery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
NOV 1996 “Process and Ritual” Video Installation, Downey Museum, Downey, CA, USA
OCT 1995 “The Labyrinth” LA ArtCore, Art Bank, National State County Partnership Grant, Los Angeles, CA USA
MAR 1994 “ The Labyrinth” Dance/Poetry/Music, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

SELECETED GROUP EXHIBITS

OCT 2016 “Art Expo”, Chung San, China
JUN 2016 “Banana Jam Group Invitational”, Jing de Zhen, China
FEB 2012 “From a Whisper to a Roar”, National WCA Exhibit, Ave 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA, USA
OCT 2008 “Building Bridges” CEARTE Cultural Art Center, Ensenada, Mexico
AUG 2008 “Emphasis Santa Monica, Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
NOV 2007 Sung Zhuang Festival of Art, Beijing, China
SEP 2007 Five Continent Artist’s Conferences and Art Exhibit, Paris, France
AUG 2004 “Art and Democracy III”, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, USA
JAN 2004 “Bridging Time and Space - California Layerists Create”, SomArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
APR 2003 “Abstract Elegant I” Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
JUL 2000 “The Immigrants’ Eye”, Angels’ Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA USA
JUN 2000 “On and Off Paper” Angels’ Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, USA
MAY 2000 “Shifting Perceptions/Contemporary LA Visions”, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
1997 “Beyond Abstraction” Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
1997 “Beyond Abstraction” Shanghai Museum of Fine Art, Shanghai, China

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2014 “Art and Democracy V”, Building Bridge’s Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2014 “Art and Democracy IV“ Building Bridges, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2004 “Art and Democracy III” Angeles Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999 “Art and Democracy II” El Pueblo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992 “Out of Hong Kong”, Merging One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992 “Passage-A Public Art Proposal for Chinatown”, Merging One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1989 “Art and Democracy I” Merging One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1997 “Four Abstract Artists” Gallery of the Rim, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

2005 “Role Model” Channel 18 KSCI, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1997 “Chinese Abstract Art and Beyond at the Hong Kong Arts Center,” Asian Art News, May/June 1997, p. 84, John Millichap
1997 “Art Talk” CNBC News, Hong Kong, China
1996 “Dancing With the Tao” Asian Art News, Vol. 6, No. 4, July/August 1996, pp. 66-67, Collette Chattopadhyay
1995 “Introduction, The Wonders of Heaven”, Henry Hopkins, Beijing, China
1995 “Lao Tzu, Dante, Jung & I Ching” Archivio, Milan, Italy
1994 “Artist Finds Expression in Colours” China Daily, August 3, 1994, Yi Shu, Beijing, China
1992 “Diana Wong in Milan” Giornale di Sicilia, Feb. 1992, Picciche, Italy
1991 Visions Magazine, Mary Carrol Nelson
1989 Los Angeles Times, Susan Geer

AWARDS

2016 Best Narrative Short Film, All Seasons Become One, Fine Art film Festival Venice, CA
2016 Best Fine Art Film, All Seasons Become One, Open Art Short Film Festival, Dusseldorf, Germany
2015 Best Short Film, All Seasons Become One, Albuquerque Film and Music Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015 Out Of The Ordinary Honorable Mention, All Seasons Become One, Taos Shortz Film Festival, Taos, New Mexico
1983 Jury award,, La mirada Art Festival, California
1981 Second award 66th National Orange festival. San Bernardino California
1960 1st Award Black and white composition, International young artists competition, Grubbio, Italy

EDUCATION

I-Ching Studies, with Professor C.G. Wang
B.A. degree: Oil and Décorative Arts; Academy of Fine Arts, Rome Italy
Graduate Studies: Academy School of London