BIOGRAPHY
Choi Wong (Hong Kong) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In 2008, Wong graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in Utrecht and in 2025, she graduated with an MA in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), in The Hague, the Netherlands.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In her work, she explores the connections between people, with a particular focus on families and groups, and related themes such as happiness, power, and loneliness.
Before the MA Artistic Research programme, she worked primarily with old, found black-and-white photographs of unknown families. Through these images, she investigates what a family means and what makes a family a family.
By continuously collecting, researching, and drawing connections, she seeks to uncover the invisible relationships between these people and what binds them together. By looking at the images above, she, as an outsider, attempts to unravel and examine personal questions.
Stock photography has now also become a subject of research within her artistic practice. At first glance, these two types of images appear to have little in common. For her, however, both forms of photography represent a particular idea of what others believe a happy family portrait should look like.
The manipulation of these photographic images and other material, using various manual techniques such as etching, embroidery, and analog photography, allows her intuitive working method to emerge and enables her to create new images that make invisible and intangible structures visible.