Isaac Chong Wai (Chinese 莊偉) is a Hong Kong-Berlin artist. He uses video, installation, drawing, photography, and performance as his main mediums. In 2024, he is a participating artist at the Venice Biennale curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Exhibitions
2025
"Isaac Chong Wai: carefully", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc, São Paulo “The Nationalgalerie: The Collection of the 21st Century,” Hamburger Bahnhof–Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Museum, Berlin "Breath by Breath," Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel
2022 “Identity Not Proven,” New Acquisitions for the Federal Art Collection, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn
2020 “Looking For Another Family,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul “Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong,” IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2019 “Living Sound—Expanding the extramusical," Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2018 “M+ Live Art Audience As Performer,” M+ Museum, Hong Kong “KOTODAMA,” Para Site, Hong Kong
As a subject
Chong Wai has also appeared as the subject of work by other artists. Chinese figurative painter Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963), considered one of the foremost realist painters of his generation, depicted Chong Wai in an oil painting titled Isaac with His Walking Stick (2018, oil on canvas). Liu Xiaodong is known for painting friends and fellow artists in their own everyday environments, spending extended time with each subject to produce large-scale oil portraits of striking intimacy and specificity. The painting shows Chong Wai reclining on a bed, a walking stick resting nearby, imagery that connects to the recurring engagement with bodily vulnerability and care that runs through Chong Wai's own artistic practice.
External links
Isaac with His Walking Stick by Liu Xiaodong — r/museum
References