Chelsea Ryoko Wong

Bio

Chelsea Ryoko Wong (b. 1986, Seattle, WA) is a painter and muralist. She attended Parsons School of Design, New York and received her BFA in printmaking from California College of the Arts. She is the first recipient of the Hamaguchi Emerging Artists Fellowship award at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley and was a 2022 finalist for SFMOMA’s esteemed SECA Art Award. She has participated in recent group exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Creativity Explored, Chinese Cultural Center, and Bolinas Museum. She will enjoy her second solo show with Jessica Silverman in July 2024. She has completed large-scale mural projects in San Francisco at Asana; La Cocina; Facebook Artist in Residence Program; and forthcoming at the Asian Art Museum. Her work has been acquired by institutional and private collections including de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Crocker Art Museum, CA, and Bolinas Museum, CA. Wong lives and works in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.