Kenny Wong was born in 1987 in Hong Kong. Wong’s works explore the delicate relationship between daily experiences and perceptual stimulations by hybridising analogue and digital representations. Wong is interested in exploring visual patterns, motions, and sound textures, as well as presenting works in the form of computational kinetic sculptures. Wong actively works as a collaborating artist, multimedia designer, mechanical engineer/designer, and art researcher.
Wong’s solo and collaborative works have been exhibited in over 10 countries, including Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), Athens Video Art Festival (Greece), Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre (UK), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (UAE), BIAN Montreal (Canada), FILE Festival (Brazil), 404 Festival (Argentina), Seoul International NewMedia Festival (Korea), Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong) and numerous international exhibitions. Wong has named one of the Golden 15, as part of the 3rd International Emerging Artist Award (UAE). He also received the Award for Young Artist 2014, Media Arts (Hong Kong) and was unanimously selected for the Bloomberg Digital Arts Initiative 2013 (Hong Kong).
Wong is currently an independent artist and designer, worked as Creative Technologist at IOIO Creative in Hong Kong, and has pursued his MFA in Sculpture at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He was a part-time Lecturer at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2015. And received his BA in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2011.