Paul Wong CV selected from 1995-2012 - paul wong projects

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CV – PAUL WONG (Edited 1995-2012)
Born Prince Rupert, B.C. 1955. Lives in Vancouver
VISUAL, MEDIA and INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST and CURATOR
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2012 Double Bill: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Centre for Art Tapes and Saint Mary’s University Art
Gallery, Halifax NS
2011 immanent, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Feature Artist Paul Wong, Your Kontinent, Richmond International Film and Media Arts Festival,
Richmond, BC
Made In China, Barristers Lounge, Vancouver Art Gallery Rental and Sales
2011 Unplugged, video installation, Room 103, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, BC
The Maid, video installation, Room 103, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, BC
Karen’s Room, video installation, Room 103, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, BC
2010 The Hotel, performance installation, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, BC
Gulf, video installation, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver, BC
5, 5 site-specific installations, Commissioned by City of Vancouver
5 Mural, Canada Line City Centre Station, Commissioned by InTransit BC, Winsor
Gallery, Vancouver
2009 2 HOT 2 HANDLE, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
PAUL WONG : PORTRAITS VIDEO, Curated by Philippe Hamelin, L’Espace
Videographe, Montreal, QC
RGB Window Installation, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 EastVan 'John', Curated by Lisa Steele, Vtape Video Salon, Toronto
Running In A Maze, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga
Class of Refugees, Malton Public Library, Video Wall, Mississauga
Wong-Mobile-A-Go-Go, Movies & Mischief Aboard Paul Wong's Mississauga Motorcoach (401
Richmond Street W. en-route to Blackwood Gallery, U of T Mississauga), City of Mississauga
ROSS House, Commission 313 Alexander Street, Vancouver
Made in China, Shanghai, Ottawa
Day Without Art, On Main, Vancouver
2005 Edgewise: A slice of video by Paul Wong, Curator by Lisa Steele, Vtape Video Salon,
Toronto
2003 Hungry Ghosts, Venice Biennale, Curator: Elspeth Sage / Vittorio Ubrbani, On Edge /
Nouva Icona Gallery. June 12 - 15, 2003.
Hungry Ghosts, Neutral Ground, Regina
Paul Wong Collects VOX Gallery Vancouver
2002 Paul Wong From The Collection, Curator: Diana Augaitis, Vancouver Art Gallery
1998 WINDOWS 97, The Nunnery (debut opening), London, England
1997 WINDOWS 97, Video In Studio, Vancouver
WINDOWS 97, Site Gallery, Sheffield, U.K.
1995 ON BECOMING A MAN, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
“On Becoming A Man” Book Launch, grunt gallery, Vancouver
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMANCES
2008 HIVE, Hive Magnetic North Festival, Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver
2007 Paul Wong Three Decades of Punk Perversions, York Univiversity, Toronto
2007 Unplugged, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
2007 Everyobody is Somebody, Co-presented by Centre A, InterUrban Gallery & Projections,
Pigeon Park, Vancouver
2004 Simulation and Other Re-enactments: Modeling the Unseen, Apr. 30/04, Banff Centre
2003 Habituation Cage - 24 hour Lock Up Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam.Feb. 25/03
No Cam No Chat - performance, Western Front, Vancouver. Jan. 25/03
Hungry Ghosts, performance - various locations: Venice Biennale, Neutral Ground,
NEW FORMS FESTIVAL, Roundhouse, VOX GALLERY, Vancouver, RED 8 at Video In,

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
LIVE ART BIENNALE at Western Front, Hungry Ghosts website - with Art Engine, Ottawa
2002 Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless - web performance on www.horizonzero.ca
1999 RE-ACT - live art retrospective 1970-1990’s, 60 min multimedia performances.
Produced by Video In for Live At The End of The Century Performance Art Festival
Vancouver. RE-ACT website and publication.
1998 WAH-Q THE OVERSEAS CHINESE, produced for Journey To The East, the first
international experimental performance art festival in post-handover Hong Kong.
Performances: Shousen Theatre, Hong Kong. Installation Version 1 - Experimental
Gallery, Hong Kong Art Centre. Installation Version 2 - Center For The Arts, Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology.
1998 DEAD MAN TALKING: Performance as part of international series on medicine + ritual.
Parallel Universe, produced by Arts Catalyst, South London Gallery
WAH-Q, performance, grunt gallery, Vancouver
The First Emperor’s Last Days, performance, Theatreworks. Victoria Theatre, Singapore
1997 Hong Kong Multimedia Celebration, Video In Studio, Vancouver
Windows 97 photocanvases, neon
Windows 97, laser vinyl, photographs, flags
Hong Kong, multi-media - slide/video projection
Chinese Cafes, photo panels
The Five Energies, Limited Edition Silkscreen Prints
1996 Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World, Video In, July 10/96 - in conjunction with
the 11th Annual World AIDS Conference, Vancouver
1995 Mixed Messages (installation) 2 channels, video projector & monitor
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Empires: Les Recontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Extreme Self: Art in the Radical First Person, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ont
Random Acts of Queerness, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC
2011 Vancouver/Vancouver, Curator Michael Turner, 1965 Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Vancouver 50, The Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive at VIVO, Vanouver, BC
TOP TEN 1982, The Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive at VIVO, Vancouver, BC
TOP TEN 1976, The Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive at VIVO, Vancouver, BC
Home Session, Curator Alexandra Laudo, Barcelona, Spain
Black/White Art Auction 2011, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Van., BC
Vancouver 125 Summer LIVE, Curator Marlene Madison, Brockton Point Oval, Stanley Park, Van.,
BC
Vancouver 125 Birthday LIVE, Curator Marlene Madison, Jack Poole Plaza, Van. BC
Wide Open Wide, National Queer Film and Video, Artistic Director Gary Varro, National Tour
(locations various)
Spatial Poetics X, Curator Cindy Mochizuki and Miko Hoffman, SFU Woodwards, Van., BC
Out On Screen, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver Visionaries Program, Director of
Programming Amber Dawn, Van., BC
We: Vancouver, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Van., BC
Toronto Urban Film Festival, Juried, TTC Video Screens, Toronto, ON
Everyday Heroes Film Festival, Juried, TTC Video Screens, Toronto, ON
An Autobiography of Our Collection, Curator Ian Thom and Heidi Reitmaier, The Vancouver Art
Gallery, Van., BC
2010 Paul Wong home-style, video screening, Curator J.J. Kegan McFadden, Platform, Winnipeg, MB
Night of All Souls, video installation, Mountain View Cemetery, Van., BC
New Forms Festival 10: Traversing Electronic Narratives, W2’s Storyeum, Vancouver, BC
TUFF (Toronto Urban Film Festival), Juried, Toronto, ON
Hold Still Wild Youth: The Gina Show Archive, Curator: Allison Collins, OR Gallery &
VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
Resistance is Fertile, Curator: Steve Loft, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, Curator: Bruce Grenville, Assistant
Curtaor: Emmy Lee, Vancouver Art Gallery
Olympic Group Show, Curator: Jennifer Winsor, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
CUE, Artists’ Videos, Curators: Daina Augaitis & Christopher Eamon, Vancouver Art
Gallery
Tian Tian Xiang Shang" (everyday looking up), Curator: Danny Yung, Beijing/Hong TBA
Ordinary Shadows Chinese Shade, On-Line Hot Docs Portal
2009 Perfect Day, Panorama, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
BC Scene, Saw Video, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
How Soon Is Now, Curated by Kathleen Ritter, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Recent Work, 556 Seymour Street (formerly A&B Sound), Vancouver
Selector, PLSMIS Gallery, Tokyo, JPN.
Decadent Resistance: The Aesthetics of Politics in Vancouver Video Practice, 1967-
2008, Curated by Amy Kazymerchyk and Michael Lithgow, Pacific Cinematheque,
Vancouver
Eating Irregular, Curated by Minh Nguyen, Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, ON
an Oboro, Oboro 25th Anniversary Celebration, Oboro, Montreal, QC
Etat d’Urgenece ’06, ATSA, Montreal, QC
TUFF (Toronto Urban Film Festival), Juried, Toronto, ON
16th Our Tube: Almost LIVE co-presented by LIVE Biennale 2009. Centre A, Vancouver
2008 Canadian Spotlight: Paul Wong ReMASTERED, MIRROR-BALL PAUL, Ordinary Shadows.
Chinese Shade Curated by Heather Keung, Reel Asians Intl Film Festival, Toronto
Perfect Day, Curated by Gary Varro, ‘Queer City Cinema 7 - Regina, SK’, Saskatchewan
FilmPool Cooperative
60 Unit: Bruise, ASpace symposium: Asian Canada, The Toronto Reel Asian Film
Festival
“New Art Festival” Yangtze City, China
2007 CAMPsites, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Prince Edward Island
60 Unit: Bruise, ASpace symposium: Asian Canada, The Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
Vtape, Rotterdam Film Festival
Paul Wong Three Decades of Punk Perversions, York U., Toronto
Unplugged, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
Art Star 3: Video Art Biennial, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Reel Asians, Asian Canada On Screen , International Festial & Book Launch, Toronto
ANALOGUE: Pioneering Video from UK, Canada & Poland, Curator: Peggy Gale, TATE
Britain, FACT Liverpool, Norwhich Art Gallery, MOCCA, TO., Art Gallery of Sudbury,
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, The Ottawa Art Gallery, The Art
Gallery of Peterborough
Presence Exhibition, National Networking Forum, Harbourfront Centre, TO.
Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy, Curator: Liz Park, Centre
A,Van.
Riots To Astronauts & Show & Tell ,Out on Screen, Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Show & Tell , Curator: Winston Xin, Out on Screen, Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Riot In Vancouver , Outdoor Projection, Vancouver Chinatown Night Market
The Art of Splash 2007, Arts Umbrella’s Exhibition, Gala, Auction
Umeboshi, commissioned shoe art, Vancouver
Screening, University of Victoria Students’ Society
Presence, Screening, National Networking Forum, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Forces of Migration, Curator: Cindi Mochizuki, Cinewroks, Vancouver
Refuge Class of 2000, Classroom Screening, Carleton University, Ottawa
2006 Ciao da Vancouver, Portraits Of A City, Curator: Elspeth Page, Velan Centre for
Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy as part of the 2006 Winter Olympics
RENC. International Screenings, Paris, Berlin
Shimmer, Spash 2006 , Arts Umbrella’s Exhibition, Gala, Auction
Be Somebody Seminal Video By Wong, Steele, Tomczajk Pleasure Dome, Rivoli, Tor.
2005 CAMPsites , Walter Philips Gallery , The Banff Centre, Museum London
In The Line of Flight, Curator: Sara Diamond, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
Video Lounge, Curator: Peggy GaleToronto Art Fair, Toronto
2005 Governor General Visual + Media Art Awarrd Artists National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
2005 Governor General Visual + Media Art Awarrd Artists, Art Bank, Ottawa

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
2004 Facing History, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, circulated by Presentation House, N.
Van
Eternal Network, Western Front
Performance and Photography, Dazibao, Montreal
2003 Hungry Ghosts - Western Front - Oct. 2003 - part of LIVE! Biennial
Eternal Network - Western Front Video 1973-2001 - March 2003
Unfinished Business, Vancouver Street Photographs, Presentation House, Jan. 11/03
Centrifugal Vision: Video Circle - 10 city Asian Pacific tour
2002 Red 8 Film + Video, Video In Studio, Vancouver
2001 Stealing To Subvert, Brazil
Facing History, Presentation House, North Vancouver, Video Pool, Winnipeg Video In,
Vancouver
Knock-Offs, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Pleasure Dome,
Toronto
Art In The Hood, Flower Factory, Vancouver
Broadcast: Blending Milk + Water, Knowledge Network
Chinese Taboos, Vision TV
2000 CENTRIFUGAL VISION: VIDEO CIRCLE international media art collaboration, 108
artists, 12 cities, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Bangkok, Macau,
Beijing, Vancouver, Singapore, and Seoul.
Magnetic North, Canadian Experimental Video, Walker Art , Minneapolis and Plug-In
Gallery, Winnipeg
Montecantini Film + Video Festival , Italy
WORLD PRIDE. ROMA 2000, series of 7 digital photo montages, Pride Exhibition,
Roundhouse, Vancouver
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Invision Project; Void, Vancouver
1999 Available Light, Saw Video, Ottawa
Gay Shorts and Go Boys, Germany
Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
Past Life Future Tense, Buenes Aires, Museo Nacional
Trinity Square screening, Karen Kew curator
Tranz tech, Toronto International Video Art Biennial
Canadian Currents: Video View Canada, Pleasure Dome
Images 99, Toronto
1998 Journey to the East, performance & installation, Shousen Theatre Expo Hall, Second
Annual Conference on Urban Culture in Hong Kong
The Five Energies - Chinese Cafes, Open Studio, Toronto
Parallel Universe, “Dead Man Talking”, South London Gallery, U.K.
New Print Editions, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto
THEM=US ,Canadian national tour, 1998-2000
1997 Fortune Cookies, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Many Faces, One Voice, Harmony Movement, 40 city touring exhibition, Hong Kong
Bank, Vancouver
Track Records, Trains & Contemporary Photography, 6 city touring exhibition, circulated
by Oakville Galleries, CMCP (Ottawa), Presentation House, North Vancouver
Asian Heritage Month, Metro Cinema, Edmonton
Video Rampage, Vancouver
Ed Video, Guelph, Ont.
The Male of the Species, Helsinki, Finland
Life/Live, Museo Cultural, Lisbon
1996 Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
Day Without Art, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
Blending Milk & Water; Video Viewpoint Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
Blending Milk & Water; Video In Studio, Vancouver
New Documentaries, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Bereft, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts, Buffalo, NY
Transient Moments: Vancouver and the Performance Photograph,
Presentation House, North Vancouver
History’s Exiles, Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta
Where Does It Hurt?, Walter Phillips Gallery Off-Site, Calgary, Alta.
Beyond The Rock Garden, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
20th Powell Street Festival, Video screening, Aug. 3/96
Sexy FM, CFRO (Coop Radio), Vancouver
Through the Lens #4, by Loretta todd, Knowledge Network, Vancouver
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Cinema Parallel, Montreal
Lotus Roots, Mount Pleasant Community House, Vancouver
Family Snapshots, Asian Heritage Month, Studio Theatre, Toronto
Electronic Arts Festival ‘96, Western Front, Video In, Artspeak & Vancouver ProMusica
1995 Halfbred, grunt gallery, Vancouver
Temple of My Familiar, On Edge Productions, Video In Studios, Vancouver
Circonvolutions, OPERA (Montreal), Carillo Gil Museum (Mexico City)
Out On Screen, Video In, Vancouver
Videoscape 95, Asian Cinevision, New York
2nd Bienal de Video, Santiago, Chile
Exchange Resources, Europa Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland
CURATORIAL AND RELATED WORK: SPEAKER, PRODUCER, CONSULTANT, WRITER
2012 Curator/Editor, “The Long Time: 21 st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak”, exhibition and
publication, On Main
Co-presenter, “Ghostkeeper”, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, On Main in conjunction with
grunt gallery
Producer, “Camera/whore”, On Main
Jury, “Painting on the Edge”, Canadian Federation of Artists
2011 Curator/Commissioner, 10 Seconds, as part of the City Of Vancouver Public Art Program
with support of Vancouver 125 and the participation of Government of Canada
2010 Executive Producer, Lead Artist and Curator of ‘5’, as part of the City Of Vancouver’s
Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program.
“OOOOO” Canada, Skeena Reece.
“Zooooom”, Brian Kent Gotro and Tony Pantages.
“LED Down The Garden Path”, Brian Howell, Heather Keung and Tom Waits.
“One More Than Three”, Rebecca Belmore, Joe Keithley, Kenneth Fletcher, Steve Lacy,
Tim Hill and Jeff Little.
“Five Elements”, Dana Claxton, Karen Lee, Ali Kazimi, John Greyson, Richard Fung
Brian Kent Gotro, Steve Lacy, Tim Hill, Jeff Little and Sahara Exodus.
Awards Jury, 2010 Toronto Reel Asians International Film Festival.
Jury Member, 2010 VIVA Awards, Vancouver.
Speaker, Dr. Shirley Thompson Memorial Service, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Curator, “Beautiful Frontier”, Rosanne Bennett/Katherine Coe, ON MAIN Gallery,
part of the Drawn Festival, Vancouver.
Co-Curator, “Mirrorface”, Angela Fama, ON MAIN/Grace Gallery, Vancouver, (Rachel
Zottenberg).
Speaker, “Vancouver Art Hop”, Canadian Art Foundation, ON MAIN/Grace Gallery.
Speaker, “Let’s Twist Again” Symposium, Centre A, Vancouver.
Speaker, “Radical Now Or Never” Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMMA) Conference,
Toronto.
MFA Critiques, Visual Studies, University of Toronto.
Speaker and Jury, Maple Ridge Highs School Media Art class.

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
Moderator, Artist Talk with Terry Haines’ “Blood Storm”, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver.
2009 Curator, “Barbarian” Dana Claxton, ON Main Gallery, Vancouver.
Co-Curator, “Garlands” Michele Quan, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver. (Pottery Guild, BC)
Curator, “Garlands” Michele Quan, Public Art Installation, Canada Line Subway
Station, Vancouver. (InTransitBC)
2008 Curator/Publisher, “3 Diptychs” Attila Richard Lukacs (in conjunction with Presentation
House Gallery).
Curator, “Surrey Houses”, Brian Howell, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver.
Curator, “Polaroids”, Attila Richard Lukacs, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver.
Curator, “The White Room”, Brian Kent Gotro, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver.
Curator, “Window Installation”, Laiwan, ON MAIN Gallery, (in conjunction with Vancouver
Queer Film Festival and Orr Gallery).
Curator, “Drawing The Anonymous Subject”,Brian Boulton, ON MAIN Gallery, Vancouver.
Jury Member, 28 th Anniversary Award, Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
Jury Member, Media Art Productions, Canada Council.
2007 Speaker, Canadian Race Relations Conference, Calgary.
Speaker, Presence Networking Forum, Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?,
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Panelist, Plenary Session 4: The Force of Markets,Visual Arts Summitt 2007, Ottawa
Panelist, Wrestling With Angels, Out on Screen, Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Lecturer, Punk Revisited, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
Artistic Director, ON MAIN Gallery: Launch of ON MAIN March 2007 - Present, Van.
2006 Artistic Director: Launch of On Edge TV (1985-2007) www.onedge.tv
Curator: Lida Abdul Live, On Edge / Live Art Bi-Annual, Video In, Van.
Curatorial Residency: Split Decisions, Vtape, Tor.
2005 Visiting Professor, University of Guelph,
Visiting Professor, U of T, Scarborough Campus
Advisor, Cultural Strategy for the International Space Station, a project of Arts Catalyst.
Visiting Professor, U of T, Advanced Video and Media, Dept. Visual Studies,
Presenter, Everyday Fears, Colloquim on Visual Culture, University of Toronto
Curatorial/Artist In Residence, Vtape, Toronto
2004 Lead Artist, Intranation Residency, Banff Centre, April - July 2004
Presenter, 92nd Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Seattle, Wash.
Curator, Leaks beneath the Surface Ed Video, Guelph
Curator, Meta-Culture, Asian Heritage Month, Roundhouse, Vancouver
Media Arts Advisory panel, Arts Umbrella, Vancouver
2003 Curatorial Essayist, “Anatomica Nervosa” essay, March 2003. grunt gallery, Vancouver
Presenter, Simulations/Re-enactments Symposium, Banff Center
Presenter, “Terms of Address” Symposium on the Pedagogy & Politics of Film & Video
Programming, University of Toronto
Canadian Curator, Centrifugal Vision: Video Circle, 108 artists, Vancouver Museum
Speaker, “From Shanghai Alley to Tinseltown” Vancouver Library, Feb 5/03
2002 Speaker, IntraNation: Race, Politics, and Canadian art Symposium, ECIAD, Vancouver
Curator, Digital Tensions, Leaks beneath the Surface, Centre For Art Tapes, Halifax
Moderator, Convergence Conference, Ottawa
Consultant, Culture, Diversity, Everyday Life, Montreal
Teacher, Arts Umbrella, Vancouver
Member, Media Arts Advisory Committee, Canada Council
Videographer: Grunt Gallery
2001 Speaker, Concordia University, Montreal
Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation Video
Member, Media Arts Advisory Committee, Canada Council
Board Member, Columbia Street Studio, Vancouver
2000 Co-Curator: Video Circle: Centrifugal Vision. Hong Kong

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
Speaker: Twisting The Box Symposium, Vancouver
Member, Media Arts Advisory Committee, Canada Council
Jury Member, VIVA Awards, Vancouver Institute of Visual Art
Jury Member, Bell Canada Award for Video Art
Board Member, Asian Heritage Month Festival Society
Curator & Director of Programming www.cyberartsite.net (off-line)
Selection Committee, 2nd DEAF Video Production School at Video In
Juror, Experimental Film and Video Production Grants, Canada Council
1999 Designer/Co-Director, Launch or www.onedgeonline.com (off-line)
Writers’ Panel, Live At The End Of The Century Symposium, Vancouver
Designer: Launch of www.paulwong.net (off-line)
1998 Co-director, with Ong Keng Sen, The First Emperor’s Last Days, Victoria Theatre,
Singapore
Writer, “Sitting Out Desert Storm in Paris”, Front Magazine, May/June issue
Visiting Professor, Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Artist Talk, Nunnery Gallery, London, U.K.
Visiting Professor, Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina); Moosejaw Gallery, University
of Regina
Curator, Born Under Surveillance, Video In 25th Anniversary, Vancouver
1997 Photography Critic & Curator, Gallery 44, Toronto Month of Photography
Judge, Best of Canada and BC, Out On Screen Festival, Vancouver
Producer/Director, Hong Kong Multimedia Event, Video In Studios
Publisher & Editor, On Edge Retrospective, Vancouver
Editor, Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn documentary, Director: Elspeth Sage
Commentator, Eat Now, NFB Documentary, Director: Pierre Falardeau, Montreal
1996 Co-producer, Jazz Slave Ships by Jan Wade, Whitehaven, U.K.
Advisory Committee, Beyond The Rock Garden, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
Advisory Committee, A.S.I.A. (Asian Society for the Intervention of AIDS)
Actor: The Wiry Man, “Hell Money” X-Files #3 x 19, Director: Tucker Gates, FOX Network
Judge, Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant, Fairchild Television
Curator, Visiting artist De Xiang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Banff, Vancouver
Videographer, Summer Love, X-TV pilot, Vancouver
Actor, The Wirey Man, in-store event, Forbidden Planet, Newcastle, U.K.
Visiting Professor, Carlisle College of Art & Design, Carlisle, U.K.
Presenter, Blending Milk & Water, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Presenter, Blending Milk & Water, Video In Studio, Vancouver
Panelist, Family Snapshots, Asian Heritage Month Festival, Harbourfront, Toronto
Co-producer/Designer, Pride Parade float, Video In Studios
Jury Member, BC Cultural Film & Video Production Grants
Jury Member, Canada Council Interdisciplinary Awards
Panelist, Tendencies : Nationalism lecture, Contemporary Art Gallery/Emily Carr Institute
Panelist, Electronic Arts Festival, Video In/Western Front, Vancouver
Panelist, National Conference of Asian Art Presenters, Toronto
1995 Workshop, Multimedia Identities, National Gallery, Ottawa
Board member, Satellite Video Exchange Society
Actor, The Red Paper, Director: Dana Claxton, Hunkpapa Films
Actor, Neon Rider, television series
Writer, Guerrilla Television, Video In 20th Anniversary Book
Artistic Director, On Edge Productions
Videographer, South Africa: The Johannesburg Bienale, Producer: Walter Phillips Gallery
Actor, “Crying Freeman” (feature), Director Kristof Gans, 1995
Director, Blending Milk and Water, Video, Asian Society for the Intervention of AIDS
1994 Director/Videographer, TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR mural project by Nhan Duc
Nguyen, Flax Art Studios, Belfast
Facilitator, Performance and Multimedia workshop, EM Media, Calgary
Host, National Minquon Panchayat Gathering, Vancouver
1993 Adjudicator, Images & Objects XI, Assembly of B.C. Community Arts Councils
Feng Shui Advisor, FENG SHUI exhibition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Host, It’s A Cultural Thing, Chinese Cultural Centre, Calgary
Member, National Minquon Panchayat Movement, ANNPAC

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
Chairman, Homebase Team, relocating and designing new Video In facilities
Exhibition designer, 20 Bold Brash + Beautiful Years, Video In Studio
Producer, Guerrilla Television event, Video in Studio
1992 Curator, Kikyo: Coming Home To Powell Street, Vancouver Museum
Associate Editor/Writer, Kikyo: Coming Home To Powell Street, Harbour Press
Panelist, In/Exclusion Forum, Vancouver Museum
Panelist, Identities, Powerplant, Toronto
Panelist, Contemporary Arts In Canada at the end of the 20th Century, Moncton, N.B.
Member, Minquon Panchayat National Committee, ANNPAC
Nominating Committee, 1993 Bell Canada Award for Video Art
1991 Consultant, Masque Of The Red Death, Grunt Gallery/Public Dreams, Vancouver
Adjudicator, Seattle Arts Commission
Visiting Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
Speaker, 20 Years Of Multiculturalism, University Of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Curatorial Lecturer, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
Curatorial Lecturer, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg
Panelist, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Panelist, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, Video In, Vancouver
Curatorial Lecturer, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, Plug-In, Winnipeg
1990 Curator: Acts Of Denial, Images Film & Video Festival, Toronto
Panelist, Race & Representation Panel, Euclid Theatre, Images 90
Curator, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered Exhibition, On Edge, Vancouver
Editor/Writer: Yellow Peril: Reconsidered publication, On Edge, Van.
Curatorial Lecturer, Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, Oboro Gallery, Montreal
Assessment Committee Member: Canada Council Media Arts
Video Production Juror, Ontario Arts Council
Acquisitions Committee Member, Video Out Distribution
Interim Editor, Video Guide Magazine
Moderator,Yellow Peril :Reconsidered Writers Panel, Gallery 44, Toronto
Cameraman, Inter-Dialogue, Director: Henry Tsang, Vancouver
Performer, The Last Supper, Director: Dalibor Martinis, Vancouver
Speaker, Task Force on Professional Training for the Cultural Sector
1989 Writer, “Feature Length Video” for Cinevue, April 1989
Writer, Video Guide #44, “Is Longer Better?”
Executive Producer/Director, F.L.V. Video Document, Video In
Videographer/Editor, Greenpeace Actions Against U.S.S. Merrill & U.S.S.
Independence
Consultant, World Of Beauty (Stage Play) Fringe Festival
Videographer, Allen Ginsberg Reading
Juror, Video In Grants To Individuals
Videographer/Editor, Summer Solstice Event, Evelyn Roth,Ed Varney
Co-Curator, on Bewley & Simon Herbert (UK artists), Vancouver
Co-Curator, Skip Blumberg presentations and video production (USA), Vancouver
Producer, “Eating Noodles Backwards”, Skip Blumberg (USA), Vancouver
Stage Manager/Projections: Industrial Cabaret, Western Front
1988 Cover Designer: Parallelogramme Vol. 13, no. 3
Juror: l2th Atlanta Film & Video Festival
Co-Editor: “Europa” Issue of Video Guide
Panelist: NAMAC, National Assoc. Media Art Centers, Atlanta, Georgia
Lecturer: Barking In The New Media Wilderness, National Gallery
Curator: In Absentia, Independent Film /Video Alliance Festival
Editor: “Stars & Stripes” issue of Video Guide
Curator: Yellow Peril: New World Asians, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Adjudicator: Arts Awards Grants, Canada Council, Ottawa
Videographer: William Burroughs Reading, Vancouver
Panelist: Edge 88 Int'l Conference on Experimental Art, London (UK)
1987 Speaker: Action Now, CARFAC Conference, Nova Scotia
Panelist: Visual Evidence, Women In Focus, Vancouver
Co-Curator: Asian New World, Video In, Vancouver
Editor: “Asian New World” issue of Video Guide
Projections: Tops All Productions, Twizzles Hair Show
Facilitator, Multi-Media In Performance Workshop, SAW Video Co-op, Ottawa

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
1986 Curator, Bruce Yonemoto at Video In
Curator, Edgar Heap of Birds at Native Education Centre, Vancouver
Videographer: ENG clips for Japan Pavilion, Expo 86
Curator, Hanif Kureishi (UK),Vancouver
Assistant Director/Stylist: “Rise and Fall of an Empire” by Joe Sarahan
Adjudicator: Video Production Grants, Canada Council
Speaker: Vancouver High School Teachers’ Professional Days
1985 Speaker: “Rally For The Arts” Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Speaker: “Gay & Lesbian Conference” University of B.C., Vancouver
Curator/Producer:, Joolz (UK) performance at Gangland, Vancouver
Director, Homelands Video by Joolz (UK)
Stage & Light Designer: Trevor Jones performance at Luv A Fair
Co-Founding Director of On The Cutting Edge Productions Society
1984 Assistant Director: “Either/Or In Chinatown” by Gabor Body (Hungary), Vancouver
Curator, Woody Vasulka at Video Inn, Vancouver
Producer: Video Rock Sock Hop at Gangland for Video Inn
Video Archivist: Vertigo Computer Graphics, Vancouver
Co-Curator: “Street Culture” for Video Inn/Western Front
Curator/Programming Director: Montgomery Cafe, Ultra Suede Lounge
Co-Founding Committee Member, Vancouver Artists League
Co-producer/Curator: “Under Five” Video Competition, Firehall Theatre
1983 Assistant Director: “As The Petals Fall” by Terry Ewasiuk
Curator: “Video Vacation” Arts, Science & Technology Centre, Vancouver
Panelist: Video Culture Symposium & Festival, Toronto
Panelist: Digicon Conference, Vancouver
1982 Programming Director, Video Inn
Curator/Producer: “Video Rock Weekend” Vancouver
Curator: “Independent Video” Vancouver
Editor: “New York” issue of Video Guide Magazine
1980 Photo Editor: Ennui Magazine, Vancouver (1980-82)
Curator: “The Raymonds” Documentary Film & Video Series, Video Inn, VAG
Juror: San Francisco Video Festival
Producer/Manager: Elizabeth Chitty, Vancouver
Manager: Satellite Video Exchange Society/Video Inn
1979 Managing Editor: Video Guide Magazine
Panelist: Kingston Video Symposium
Co-Curator/Producer: Living Art Performance Festival Vancouver
Co-Curator: Perform, Vancouver Art Gallery
Production Assistant: Western Front Video
Co-Owner: Plastic Amp Accessories
Member: 13 Cameras Collective
1978 Canadian Co-Curator: INPUT Festival, Milano, Italy
Organizer: Video Library for Fifth Network Festival, Toronto
Member of Advisory Arts Panel of Canada Council to 1980
Co-Producer: Video Cabaret/Hummer Sisters,Vancouver Tour
Co-Producer: Sanja Ivekovic/Dalibor Martinis Canadian Tour
Co-Director: Mainstreet Inc. Artist Collective
1977 Co-Founding Director: Performance Tapes/Performance Warehouse, Vancouver
Video Curator: “From This Point Of View” Vancouver Art Gallery
Videographer: “Hot Property” performance, General Idea, Winnipeg
Vice-President: ANNPAC, Assn. of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres
1976 Editor: 5th International Video Exchange Directory, Video Inn
Video Production Consultant: Western Front, Vancouver
Video Production Consultant: A Space, Toronto
1975 Special Events Coordinator, Video Inn
Co-Programmer, Video Inn National Tour
Production Assistant: “Chain of Kisses” by Michael Goldberg
1974 Production Assistant: Western Front
Editor: 4th International Video Exchange Directory, Video Inn
Faciliator, Artists In The School Project, Vancouver Art Gallery
Exhibitions Organizer: Video Inn - Vancouver Public Library

PAUL WONG PROJECTS
Exhibition Organizer, Video Inn, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle
Graphics Designer: Life Rhythm Project, Burnaby Art Gallery
Graphics Contributor: “Accessible Portapak Manual”, Michael Goldberg, ed.,Video Inn
1973 Co-Founding Director: Satellite Video Exchange Society/Video Inn
Organization Assistant: Matrix International Video Conference
1972 Film Projectionist: Vancouver Art Gallery
Assistant to the Director: Satellite Project (to 1975),Vancouver Art Gallery
1971 Staff Member: Stadium Gallery Project, Vancouver Art Gallery
TEACHING, TALKS, LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
Conceptual Art Performance Practices, Vancouver Art Gallery; EastVan 'John', Vtape, Toronto; Running In
A Maze, Blackwood Gallery, U of T Mississauga; A Space, Toronto; And/Or Gallery, Seattle; Artspace,
Peterborough, Ont.; Asakaya University, Tokyo; Carlisle Art College, Carlisle, U.K.; Concordia University,
Montreal; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Dundas School Of Art; Emily Carr College of Art,
Vancouver; Flax Art Studios, Belfast; Institute of Communication Arts, Vancouver; Kwantlin College, Surrey;
Langara Community College, Vancouver; Mass. College of Art, Boston; Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle
U.K.; Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax; Ontario College of Art, Toronto; Orchard Gallery, Derry;
Otis Institute of Art, San Diego; Ottawa University, Ottawa; Random Access, Dublin; SAW Video Co-op,
Ottawa; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; St. Lawrence College, Kingston; Tama Art University, Tokyo;
Trinity Square Video, Toronto; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; University of Regina,Saskatoon;
Vancouver Secondary School Teachers’ Professional Day, Vancouver School of Art, Video In, Vancouver;
York University; Toronto; Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Vancouver School of Art, Video In,
Vancouver; York University; Toronto; Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
AWARDS, ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, COMMISSIONS
2012 Surrey Art Gallery, Urban Screen Commission
2011 City Of Vancouver 125 th Anniversary Public Art Program Commission
In Kontinent Festival, City of Richmond Commission
2009 City Of Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program
2008 Best Canadian Film or Video Award, NFB, Reel Asians International Film Festival 2008,
Toronto
Canada Council Media Arts Grant
2005 Governor General Visual and Media Arts Award 2005, Exhibitions: Art Bank, National
Gallery, Shanghai Restaurant/Bar, Ottawa. March 2005
2004 Collaborator: House of Words Opera, work-in-progress with Linda Bouchard, San
Francisco
2003 Winner of the inaugural XpressionsTrailblazer Award, National Film Board, Ottawa.
April 22-23, 2003.
2002 Winner of inaugural Asian Art Award for “Transforming Art”, Vancouver, May 2, 2002.
1998 Commission, Journey to the East, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,
Hong Kong Art Centre International Association of Theatre Critics, H.K. ICA and
Second Annual Conference on Urban Culture
1997 Commission, Chinese Cafes Road Tour, Harmony Movement & Kodak
Commission, Windows 97, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), LOCUS +
(Newcastle) Sponsor, China-Canada Cultural Exchange Project, Canadian
Heritage & Languages Sponsor, CHINATOWN PROJECT, Canada’s Year of the Asia
Pacific
Artist-in-residency, Open Studio Printmaking Gallery, Toronto
1996 Artist-in-Residence, POP, MASS, SUBCULTURES, Banff Centre
Commission, BLENDING MILK & WATER: Sex In The New World, ASIA Asian Society for the
Intervention of AIDS
1995 Commission, TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR, LOCUS + and On Edge Productions
PUBLICATIONS LIST/BIBLIOGRAPHY
-Pictures are out - experience is in, by Sarah Milroy, Globe + Mail, Feb. 14, 2009
-Paul Wong - A Portrait, Essay by Phillippe Hamelin, Curator - Video Portraits, National Art Centre
BC Scene, Saw Video, Ottawa

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-A Party of B.C. proportions: B.C.’s best: from Diana Krall to the punks, by Fiona Morrow, Globe + Mail, Apr.
21, 2009
-Selector Magazine, Spring/Summer 2009 Lifetime Collective, Vancouver
-EastVan John, Essay by Michael Turner, V/Tape
-The King of the Main, Paul Wong Interview by Mike Hoolboom, Toronto, upcoming publication
-Art Star 3: Video Art Biennial. Smash: Reflecting Sex, Essay by Winston Zin
Voices Rising, asian canadian cultural activism. Xiaoping Li pg. 1,16 & 47, UBC Press ISBN 9780-7748-
1221-4 (bound) 978-0-7748-1222-1 (pbk.)
The Art of Splash, pg. 58 (2007)
Art event shines light on troubled downtown corner, Cheryl Rossi, The Van. Courier, Nov. 30, 07
Casting rays of hope, Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Dec. 6-13, 07
Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy. Liz Park pg.11,12,13 & 24 (2007)
Reel Asian, Asian Canada on Screen THE KING OF MAIN: UNPLUGGED, Essay by Paul Wong &
Christine Miguel pg. 127-133 Coach House Books ISBN 1 55245 192 5 / ISBN13 978 155245 192 2
Heart of the City Festival Program, Vancouver pg. 23 & 24, (2007)
Out on Screen, VancouverQueer Film and Video Festival Program, pg. 46,47 & 49, (2007)
In The Mix, Hywel Tuscano, XTRA West, Aug. 30, 07
ANALOGUE, Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88). Essay by Peggy Gale pg. 55,
56, 67 & 72 University of Central Lancashire ISBN 1 901922 59 6 (2006)
Shimmer, The Art of Splash pg. 56 (2006)
Unfinished Business, Photgraphing Vancouver Streets 1955-1985. pg. 244-246 & 287
west coast line, Hingell Books ISBN 0-920293-67-0 (2005)
The Governor General’s Awards In Visual and Media Arts. Essay by Elspeth Sage pg.70-79 (2005)
Caught In The Act, Anthology of Performance Art. The SS Girls + Edited Versions
pg. 48 YYZ Books ISBN 0-920397-84-0 (2004)
Point and Shoot, Essay by Francine Choiniere, Michele Theriault
pg. 11 & 121 Daziboa ISBN 2-922135-25X (2004)
In The Line Of Flight, Essay by Sara Diamond. Tsinghao University Beijing China
Governor General’s Visual, Media Arts Awards, The Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 2005.
Local artists win big, Georgia Straight, March 10, 2005.
Change makers honoured in G-G visual awards, Globe & Mail, March 9, 2005.
“City video artist wins Governor-General’s Award”, Vancouver Sun, March 9, 2005.
“Vancouver’s Paul Wong among Gov. Gen. winners in visual, media arts”, National Post, Mar. 9/05
“Video artists earn top honours”, Toronto Star, March 9, 2005.
“Visual artists awarded by Governor General”, CBC The National, March 8, 2005.
“Paul Wong: COLLECT”, Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Sept. 18, 2003, page 115
“Paul Wong, Galleries West”, Sept. 15, 2003
“La Biennale di Venezia - 50 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte” (Catalogue), June, 2003
“Vindication of an art pioneer”, Sarah Milroy, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 22, 2002, page R1
“Felix Magazine” (New York) 2001
“SeaBus terminal poster banned”, Jeremy Sandler, Vancouver Sun, Sept. 5, 2001.
“MAKING VIDEO IN” (Vancouver) 2000
“LIVE AT THE END OF THE CENTURY” (Vancouver) 2000
“MAGNETIC NORTH and VOYEURISM” 2000
“Misfits together - Paul Wong on Art, Community and Vancouver in the 1970’s and 80’s”, Richard Fung,
“FUSE” Magazine, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 41-46
“Exhibit shows audiences that them and us are often the same”, Michael Scott, Van. Sun, Oct. 30, 1997
“Sex Migrants - Paul Wong’s Video Geographies of Erotic and Cultural Displacement in Pacific Canada”,
“FUSE”, vol. 20, #1, Winter 1997, Gordon Brent Ingram, pp.17-26
“Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography”, Oakville Galleries & the Canadian Museum of
“Contemporary Photography”, 1997. ISBN0-921027-70-2
“East Heats West”, Globe & Mail, May 3, 1997, Chris Dafoe, p. C4
“Speak Volumes”, Oboro, by Clive Robertson, 1997
“Paul Wong speaks”, TAXI, vol. 1 #6, Mo Ling, cover story, page 1-4
“Watch and Wait”, Vancouver Echo, vol. 80 #10, Ross McLaren, p. 1-3
“The Greater Vancouver Book”, ed. Chuck Davis, Inkman Press, pp. 654, 658, 745, ISBN1-896846-00-9
“An Archaeology of Desires”, Border Crossings, Summer 1996, Douglas Ord, pp. 51-53
“Feng Shui”, LOCUS + 1993-96 catalogue, Summer 1996, pp. 30-31, ISBN 1 899377 06 9
“Queer Happenings” by Cindy Filipenko, Xtra West, May 2/96
“The Asian Invasion” by Glenn Sumi, Xtra Toronto, April 25/96
“1996 V Tape Reference Guide”, Editor: Cheryl Rondeau-Hoekstra, pp. 203-204
“Examining Asian attitudes towards sex and sexuality”, XTRA! West, No. 74, June 27/96, p. 29

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“Video veteran explores immigrant attitudes about sex”, Georgia Straight, July 4-11/96 p. 41
“Life/Live” eds. Laurence Bosse, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Carrie Pilto, Le Musee de la Ville de Paris,p. 206-08
“Paul Wong: On Becoming A Man” (catalogue), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1995). Writers: Jean
Gagnon, Monika Gagnon, Elspeth Sage. French, English & Chinese, 84 pages, colour plates, videography,
bibliography. ISBN0-88884-644-4
“Video re/View”, eds. Peggy Gale & Lisa Steele, Art Metropole,/V/Tape. pg. 14, 135, 136, 167,1995
“Questions of Community”, Banff Centre Press, 1995. “Inside, Outside, Upside Down” by Henry Tsang, pp.
221-240. ISBN0-929159-74-5
“Racy Sexy”, Chinese Cultural Centre, 1995. p. 16-17. ISBN0-9697594-1-4
“Cultural Re-mix” by Elspeth Sage, CIRCA Magazine, Dublin, Nov. 95, pp. 48-51
“Frank, rank and raw” Ottawa X Press, Kirk Finken, Sept. 20/95
“Etre ou ne pas etre, selon Paul Wong” Ledroit, Ottawa-Hull, Sara Champagne, Sept. 21/95, p. 33
“National Gallery rolls with the videotape” Ottawa Citizen, Alan King, Sept. 24/95
“photography and Death” by Martha Langford, Boder Crossings, Spring 1995
“Videotexts” by Peggy Gale, The Power Plant, pp. 3, 15, 42 ISBN 0-8890-252-4
“Wong’s World” The Montreal Gazette, Anne Delaney, Nov. 25/95
TELEVISION PROGRAMMES
Adrienne Clarkson Presents, “Journey Around The Mountain”, C.B.C. (30 minutes),19 Oct. 1994
THROUGH THE LENS, Episode #6, Director: Loretta Todd, Western Moving Picture Co., 1996 (30 min.)
DIVERSITY, City TV, Sunday Oct. 13, 2002
Studio 4, SHAW TV, with Fanny Kiefer, January 29, 2003.
Breakfast TV, CITY TV, with Fiona Forbes & Michael Eckford, Feb. 4/03
SELECTED WEBSITES
www.paulwongprojects.com
www.5.paulwongprojects.com
www.onmaingallery.com
www.hungryghosts.net
www.ccac
www.vtape.org
PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS
McMaster University, 49th Parallel Gallery, New York; University of Toronto; University of Winnipeg;
Department of Art, Queen’s University; Concordia University Library; Art Bank, Ottawa; Art Metropole,
Toronto; Centre Cultural Canadien, Paris; Donnell Film Library, New York; Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland;
Museum Of Modern Art, New York; National Film Board - Photography Division, Ottawa; National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa; Toronto Metropolitan Library, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; Video In, Vancouver; Walter
Phillips Gallery, Banff; Western Front, Vancouver, Oakville Galleries, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design,
Ontario College of Art & Design, Pennsylvania State University, McMaster University