Brent Wong
New Zealand painter (born 1945)
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Brent Wong (born 1945) is a New Zealand surrealist painter and music composer.
Brent Wong | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) |
| Known for | Painting, music composition |
| Movement | Surrealism |
Early life
Wong was born in 1945 in Ōtaki, New Zealand.[1] His family moved to Wellington in 1949, where he has subsequently lived.[2] As a child, he had difficulty reading, which led him towards drawing as an alternative means of self-expression.[2]
Art career
Wong's first solo exhibition was in 1969 at the Rothmans Gallery in Wellington when he was 24. The exhibition "excited extravagant critical attention: and overnight established the previously unknown Brent Wong as an important painter in the local context."[2]
