Kristen Wong

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Bio: "Kristen Wong (b.1994) is a visual artist, photographer, and writer living and working in San Francisco. She has studied at Parsons School of Design, holds a BFA in Painting from California College of the Arts, and has an MFA from San Francisco State University, where she won the Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement. She has shown locally in the Bay Area, nationally in New York, internationally in Europe, and has completed residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin and Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. She is currently a studio resident at Minnesota St. Project in San Francisco’s Dogpatch district. "

Statement: "My practice largely consists of photographic collage composed of mixed media images of what is minutiae that becomes monumental in my head and then outside of it that I began developing during my time as a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I use destructive and additive marking, hand rendering, and digital and analog manipulation techniques, and incorporate collage elements into altering 35mm/medium format film and iPhone photographs to question the validity of what parts of what functions as visual truth are “real” across sentimentality, place, and memory. "