Mary Sui Yee Wong

Visual Arts

A multidisciplinary visual artist whose work evokes the issues of identity and cultural diversity surrounding her various roles as a Chinese-Canadian artist, a mother and a community worker, Mary Sui Yee Wong has been a continuous presence on both the local and international visual arts scene for nearly two decades now.  Having moved from Hong Kong to Canada as a child, Wong’s artwork often draw upon personal memories, histories, and legacies, in an attempt to examine the dialectics of the constructed self in constant flux, subject to ever-shifting national identification as the world moves towards an aggressively promoted concept of globalization. Site-specific and experiential her installations are a culmination of Western theory and Asian sensibilities and often manifests in unusual juxtapositions.  Active within the Montreal arts community, Wong has in the past coordinated the MFA & Studio Arts Visiting Artist Program at Concordia University, where she currently serves as an Assistant Professor. (DN)

Nature Morte, site-specific installation at the Jardin de Chine in Montreal