MARTIN WONG

Martin Wong’s works can be found in institutional collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Martin Wong Papers reside at the Fales Library, New York University, and include sketchbooks, correspondence, biographical documents, video cassette recordings, photos, graffiti-related materials, and parts of Wong’s personal library.

With this two part exhibition, the exhibiton at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne is followed by an exhibition at our gallery in Berlin, we are proud to present Martin Wong’s work for the first time in Europe. The exhibitions feature paintings by Martin Wong from 1980 to 1998. As well as this, early collages and photographs from the archive of Martin Wong at the Fales Library were selected for the exhibition by the artists Danh Vo and Julie Ault are shown in vitrines and are displayed in the window of the gallery. To accompany the exhibition we present a video portrait of Martin Wong by filmmaker Charlie Ahearn. Among other things Ahearn is known for his early film Wild Style (1982) documenting the New York Hip Hop and Graffiti scene.