Sherry Wong

Sherry Wong

Sherry Wong paints portraits of herself and friends on traditional wood panels. She often portrays herself as the hero in a confessional narrative where the occurrences in her life are sublimated into an epic story. For 2048 she will be painting group portraits of the various creative communities in San Francisco. In conjunction with the presentation of this body of work, the artists and musicians depicted in the paintings will be invited to show and perform spotlighting the unique communal spirit of the bay area.

Sherry Wong was born in 1978, and raised in Turkey and England. She received a BA in Studio Art at Smith College, and lives and works in Brooklyn and San Francisco. She has had two solo shows with I-20 gallery in New York, as well as solo shows at Galeria 13 in Mexico City, Vienna Fair in Austria and Akus Gallery in Connecticut. She has also shown in Athens, Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo and Turin.