Paul Wong

Paul Wong is a pioneering artist known for his innovative work in visual and media art. With a career spanning over five decades, Wong has continuously pushed the boundaries of interdisciplinary storytelling, working outside mainstream conventions making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes working in film, video, sound, photography, installation, printmaking, performance and writing. He is an award winning artist and curator and founder of several artist-run groups, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Wong has produced projects throughout North America, Europe and Asia. 

He is the Artistic Director of On Main Gallery and currently the curator of Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama Retrospective and book launching Oct 3, 2025 Vancouver Art Gallery. He was the UBC Art History and Visual Arts (AHVA) Artist in Residence in 2024/2025.  

Wong received the 2005 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art, Best Canadian Film or Video at the 2008 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. 2016 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Visual Arts. In 2023 he received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federation of Gay Games, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Car University of Art and Design (ECUAD). He received the 2024 Toronto Reel Asian Fire Horse Award.