Wong Chi Hang Sara
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Wong Chi Hang Sara (黃志恆; born 1968) is a Hong Kong–based visual artist and landscape architect. Wong graduated with a BA degree in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992 and an MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Hong Kong.[1]
Wong was born in Hong Kong. She was one of the founding members of Para Site, a Hong Kong gallery and organisation dedicated to contemporary art forms which opened in 1996. She is part of the Fotanian artists studio community at Fo Tan in Hong Kong. Her work brings together the fields of architecture and art, addressing the ways people move through spaces by creating large sculptural forms. Wong works alone and collaboratively with artists including as Leung Chi Wo Warren on socially engaged art projects such as City Cookie (1999-2003)
Wong's exhibitions include: Shanghai Biennale (2000), 50th Venice Biennale (2001),[2][3] Gwangju (2002).
- Kardist Art Foundation
- Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, China
Awards
- Artist Grant of the Centre de Reflexion sur l'Image et ses Contextes, Switzerland (2000);
- Most Promising Artist of the Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong (1994);
- Ramon Woon Art Creative Prize, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992).
Artist-in-residence
- PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (1999),
- The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000), New York;
- Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Valais (ECAV), Sierre, Switzerland (2000)
- the Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalssesen, Norway (2002).