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Artist’s Statement
I create installations, assemblages and works on paper that summon protection and celebrate female energy.
Using materials such as colored pencil, drafting film, paint, and candle smoke, I strive to reconnect in myself what
has been fragmented. Much of my work is constructed with ephemeral materials that are both strong and fragile
simultaneously.
Working often within the context of memory and impermanence, I gather images and patterns. I often name my
pieces after Goddesses because my work once completed becomes a form of drawing down eternal energy and
life force. I am calling upon those forces of protection through the practice of making artwork. Art is my form of
magical practice which reveals the sacred in myself.
Holly Wong lives in San Francisco, California. She was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she
earned a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New Genres. Holly creates installations, assemblages and
works on paper. She has been awarded visual arts grants from the Integrity: Arts and Culture Association,
Barbara Deming Memorial fund, the George Sugarman Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and a Gerbode
Foundation purchase award. She has had over 70 group exhibitions and 10 solo exhibitions. She is represented
by SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, California, and is a member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.