Paul Wong
"One of Canada's most renowned multimedia artists, Paul Wong meshes video, photography and performance with a rare Chinese-Born-Canadian meets East Van-Punk counter culture perspective... Chinese-Canadian Warhol: in your face, radical, eccentric, sexy, campy, shocking, experimental and spontaneous. He is a media subversive... He is a video renegade, relying on artistic entrepreneurial smarts, raw originality, and an eye for social context. Driven by an insatiable search for identity, community and authenticity. He is constantly redefining his role an an artist and cultural strategist - staying ten projects ahead of even himself, and always unpredictable." -- Mo-Ling Chiu, Taxi Magazine
"Paul Wong is one of Canada's premier artists, working primarily in video, installation and performance. His work has been honored with many distinctions, including a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada and the Bell Canada Award in 1992 for outstanding contribution to video art. Like Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik, Wong is one of the few Asian artists who thrived in the North American avant-garde before the 'multicultural' breakthrough of the 1980s.
"Paul Wong is also a controversial artist, in 1984 his multichannel installation CONFUSED; SEXUAL VIEW was canceled from the Vancouver Art Gallery before it opened, sparking one of Canada's most dramatic anticensorship battles. Within the art community, he is known as intrepid advocate for art and artists." -- Richard Fung, FUSE Magazine
Artist Code: 168
Videography
2019, 10:24 minutes, colour, Toisanese, Cantonese (available with English subtitles)
2016, 10:24 minutes, colour, English
2014, 01:15 minutes, colour
2014, 24:18 minutes, colour
2013, 05:44 minutes, colour, Silent
2013, 18:21 minutes, colour
2011, 17:10 minutes, colour, English
2010, 28:30 minutes, colour, English
2010, 08:05 minutes, colour, English
2010, 08:40 minutes, colour
2010, 02:33 minutes, colour
2010, 05:55 minutes, colour, silent
2010, 07:00 minutes, colour, Spanish and English
2010, 06:00 minutes, colour
2010, 04:45 minutes, colour, English
2010, 04:05 minutes, colour
2010, 02:38 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:35 minutes, colour
2010, 06:23 minutes, colour, silent
2009, 07:47 minutes, colour, English
2009, 07:30 minutes, colour, English
2008, 07:50 minutes, colour, English, Cantonese
2008, 05:00 minutes, colour, English
2008, 04:30 minutes, colour, English
2008, 05:00 minutes, colour, English
2008, 06:45 minutes, colour, English
in ten sity (5 Channel Installation)
2008, 25:00 minutes, B&W, English
2008, 25:00 minutes, B&W, English
Unplugged 2.0 - Educational Edition
2008, 40:00 minutes, colour, English
2008, 38:00 minutes, colour, English
2007, 02:45 minutes, colour, English
2007, 07:30 minutes, colour, English
Hungry Ghosts (5 channel video installation)
2003, 33:00 minutes, colour, english
EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless
2003, 04:00 minutes, colur, english
2002, 55:00 minutes, colour, English
2001, 05:00 minutes, colour, english
2000, 04:00 minutes, colour, English
1999, 01:30 minutes, colour, English
1997, 04:30 minutes, English, Cantonese
Blending Milk & Water - Sex in the New World
1996, 28:00 minutes, Cantonese, Mandarin, English
1995, 28:00 minutes, colour
Chinaman's Peak: Walking The Mountain
1992, 25:30 minutes, colour
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade
1988, 89:00 minutes, colour, English
1987, 22:00 minutes, colour, English
1984, 52:00 minutes, colour, English
Confused: Sexual Views Compilation Edit
1984, 59:00 minutes, colour, English
1981, 21:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 39:00 minutes, colour, English
1977, 08:30 minutes, colour, English
1976, 04:30 minutes, colour
Critical Writing
by . Hyperallergic Pride Month Series 2024, June 10, 2024. Hyperallergic, 2024.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2019.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2014.
by et al. Fuse, Sept. Fall 2007, v. 30, no. 4.
by . Art Star 3 Video Biennal, 2007. Ottawa: Galerie SAW Gallery, 2007.
by . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.
by . Analogue, 2006. Preston: Electronic and Digital Art Unit, 2006.
by . The National Post- Vancouver Edition, Mar. 9, 2005.
by . Canadian Art, Sept. Fall 2004, v. 21, no. 3.
by . Fuse, Sept. Fall 2000, v. 23, no. 2.
Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999.
by . Fuse, Summer 1998, v. 21, no. 3.
Born Under Surveillance, 1998. Vancouver: Video in Studio, 1998.
by . Fuse, Winter 1997, v. 20, no. 1.
by . Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
by . YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by . Feng Shui, 1994. Vancouver/Newcastle: On Edge (Vancouver), Locus + (Newcastle), 1994.
by . Making Video "In": the contested ground of alternative video on the west coast, 1994. Toronto: Video In Studios, 1994.
by . Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 1993.
by . The Vancouver Sun, Mar. 29 Spring, 1989.
by . Cinema Canada, Sept. 1988, no. 155.
by . Composition, Fall 1987, v. 2, no. 2.
by . From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986.
by . Video Guide, Sept. 1986, v. 8, no. 38/3.
by . The Winnipeg Perspective, 1985. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1985.
by . Video '84, - Recontres Vidéo Internationales de Montreal, 1984, v. sept.
by and . British/Canadian Video Exchange '84, 1984. London: Canada House Cultural Centre, 1984.
by . Excalibur, Nov. 1983, v. 18, no. 10.
by . Fuse, Jan. 1982, v. 5, no. 10.
by . The Toronto Sun, Sept. 9, 1982.
by . International Video Art Symposium - Queen's University, Mar. 5, 1979.
by . International Video Art Symposium - Queen's University, Mar. 5, 1979.
by . Centerfold, Feb. 1979, v. 3, no. 3.
by . Centerfold, Dec. 1978, v. 3, no. 1.
by . Cantrills Filmnotes, Apr. 1975, no. 21, 22.