Grace
Wong
Grace is a community-driven interdisciplinary artist deeply interested in the nuanced parameters that shape culture and identity.
Working from both a personal and collective lens, she is interested in exploring lived experiences, collective histories, and the act of re-imagining. Her work encompasses mixed media, photography, activism, creative placemaking and participatory interventions.
Deeply rooted in her ongoing practice is imagining the cross-sector importance of art x community development via education, creative placemaking, workforce development, and youth healing.
EDUCATION
2014 - 2018
Carnegie Mellon University
BHA, Fine Art and Global Systems & Management
(Additional Major, Human Computer Interaction)
EXPERIENCE
2020
Americorps Teaching Artist, Vaux Big Picture High School
2019- 2020
Digital Marketing Associate, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
2018 -
2019
Digital Content and Engagement Fellow, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Marketing for festivals and productions: Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, Gallery Crawl, Bookish in the 'Burgh, Highmark First Night Pittsburgh, Children's Theater Festival, Three Rivers Arts Festival, four downtown art gallery venues, Dance Council, Broadway in Pittsburgh
AWARDS
2020
Scholastic Art and Writing Educator Award (For Malayah Reynolds, 12th Grade, 3 National Gold Medals)
2018
Dietrich Humanities Prize, Finding Tiananmen
2017
BXA Capstone Project Grant, Finding Tiananmen
2016
Travel Scholarship with UBELONG, Human Interaction Project
EXHIBITIONS
Public Art
2015
Today I Confess..., ArtPark, Pittsburgh, PA
Group
2022
2021
2021
Creative Nonfiction in ZouMatJe Publication, Perth Festival, Perth, AU
Action Scores for Healing, Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh photographs, MINI Museum Show, Philadelphia Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Pittsburgh photographs, Exhibition on Cherry and 10th St, MINI Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2020
excavated memory collage and hands between mother and daughter (lenticular print), Anthropology of Motherhood, Carlow University Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2020
drifters, Mastermind: Accessibility, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Responses for ILSSA, Better Together, String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY
2019
excavated memory collage (#2), Past, Present, Future , Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
I walked home alone in relief that the clouds would be back the next day and the day after that and the day after that... (photo), Sky High Skies, Transpace Gallery at Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2019
Hot Summer Chairs (photo), Summer 2019 Show, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
2019
Photos from 家 (home) & healing frameworks, We Are Here, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Ephemeral Mails, Neighbouring, Late Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Reflections on my dead grandfather, New Old Image eXchange, Athens, OH
2019
Ephemeral Mails, Everybody Has a Story, Bridge Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2019
Ephemeral Mails, Place Setting, Politits Art Coalition, Rochester, NY
2018
Freedomlands, Documented Humans, Gallery 724, Alexandria, Va
2018
Freedomlands, Dot Gov, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Spoken Word Piece, Power and the Soul, The Frame Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015
Untitled (Aluminium Casting of a Wave), Kaleidoscope, CMU College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Online
2020
Action Scores for Healing, Juried Visual Arts Exhibition at Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2020
Four 35mm photos, OPEN EXHIBITION 01, Your Local Newsstand, Worldwide
COLLECTION
2019
Overlooking the Jungle, Postcard Collective (Fall 2019 Exchange: That One Time...), Tuscan, AZ
2019
Ephemeral Mails, Bridge Art Gallery (University of Rochester Department of Psychiatry), Rochester, NY
RESIDENCY
2020
Artist in Residence at ECAASU (East Coast Asian American Students Union), Virtual
PUBLICATION
2021
The Land of Make Believe : On Imaginary Neighborhoods, Ye Ye, and the Act of Remembering (Creative Nonfiction), Zoumatje.com
PRESS
2020
HGTV, Link reshare of interactive self-guided Pittsburgh public art walking tour
2020
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Article Reshare, How Five Installations Transformed Downtown Pittsburgh into a City of Light
2020
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Photo of Tuhin Das, resident poet at City of Asylum
2019
PGH City Paper, Photo of Billy Kidd, resident magician of Liberty Magic
2019
BBC China, Photo of Wang Youcai (Finding Tiananmen interviewee)
2019
90.5 WESA, Photo of Andrea London for We Are All Related Exhibit
2019
Tribune Live, Photo of Andrea London for We Are All Related Exhibit
2018
WTAE-TV, Mention of First Night 2019 Blog for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
2017
The Tartan, BXA Student Showcase Photo Feature and Photobook Mention
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