Magdalen Wong received her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003, and her MFA with a Trustee Merit Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Wong had received the Freeman Foundation Asian Artists’ Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2010, and the Asia Pacific Artist Fellowship from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, with a 5-month residency at Goyang Art Studio in Seoul in 2011. She has exhibited at the Para/site Art Space, Hong Kong; Osage, Hong Kong; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Gallery 21, Malmo; and Gallery 400, Chicago; and has performed at Videotage, Hong Kong; Fringe Theatre, Hong Kong; and PAC/Edge Festival, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago.

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