Visual Art
ASIAN RICE SACK SERIES
The various bodies of work – Eye of the Rice: Yu Mai Gee Fon, Baby Jack Rice Story, I Don’t Know Where the Chinese Cook Lived, Kente Rice Women: Talking Our Connection, made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Kindred Spirit and others – which make up the Asian Rice Sack Series, refer to individual and collective narratives about the Chinese diaspora in America.
made in usa: Angel Island Shhh
2003 | Tin See Do: The Angel Island Experience, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York (in conjunction with Gateway to Gold Mountain exhibition)* |
2001 – 2002 | Flo Oy Wong: Angel Island, Immigration, and Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA* |
2001 | On Gold Mountain, Presenter: Autry Heritage Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. |
2001 | Angel Island and Immigration Stories of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA |
2000 | made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, Angel Island Immigration Station* |
Baby Jack Rice Story
2000 | Flo Oy Wong: Mixed Media and Narrative Installations, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA* |
1997 | Rice Grains, Basic Studies/Art and Design, School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas* |
Baby Jack Rice Story, College of Human Resources & Family* Sciences, Textiles, Clothing & Design Department Gallery, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE* | |
Art of the Americas: Identity Crisis, Collaborating Artist & Participant, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA | |
1994 | Imagining Families: Images & Voices, National African American Museum Project, Arts & Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. |
Kindred Spirit
2004 | Connections/Disconnection: Shredding Lives, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA* |
2001 – 2002 | Flo Oy Wong: Angel Island, Immigration, and Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA* |
2002 | Thread: Five Artists Who Use Stitching to Convey Ideas, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA |
Eye of the Rice: Yu Mai Gee Fon
1997 | On The Rim, TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA Contemporary Fiber Art, Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz, CA |
1996 | Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS |
1995 | Tell Me a Story, Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, Fourth International Women’s Conference, Huairou, People’s Republic of China |
1993 | Rice Story, Eye of the Rice: Yu Mai Gee Fon Installation, IDEA Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
SUITCASE SERIES
The Suitcase Series comprised of My Mother’s Baggage: Lucky Daughter, My Mother’s Baggage: Paper Sister/Paper Aunt/Paper Wife, and 1942: Luggage From Home To Camp tell stories of cultural intersections resulting from Chinese and Japanese immigration to the United States.
Luggage From Home To Camp
2003 | 1942: Luggage From Home to Camp, Japanese American Museum San Jose, San Jose, CA* |
My Mother’s Baggage: Paper Sister/Paper Aunt/Paper Wife
2001 – 2002 | The Angel Island Immigration Experience – made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA |
2001 | Sugar ‘N Spice‘N Everything Nice, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA |
2000 | Both Sides+: Family Stories, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA |
1998 | Multiple Exposures, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
mixed media – suitcase, photos, sequins, text
My Mother’s Baggage: Lucky Daughter
1999 | Celebrating American Family Life, U. S. State Department Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark |
1997 | Art of the Americas: Identity Crisis, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA |
1996 | A Case for Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
JOSS PAPER SERIES
1992 | Bitter Melon Rice Blues: Elegy for America |
1996 | Rice for My Ancestors |
1997 | District Six: A Memory |
Drawings — Oakland Chinatown Series
The Oakland Chinatown Series (1983- 1991) is a body of 35 autobiographical narrative graphite drawings of my family in Oakland Chinatown from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Wiping the Table, 1984, 19″ x 16″, graphite drawing on paper, collection of Felicia Joy Wong
Wedding – Li Hong & Henry, 18″ x 15″,
graphite drawing on paper, collection of
Lillian Lew
In Chinatown, 1983, 29″ x 22″, mixed media – graphite, colored pencils, ribbons, thread, silkscreen on paper,
collection of artist
Sitting-Thinking, 1985, 18″ x 21″, graphite drawing on paper, collection of Benjamin Wong Halperin
Shadows at 687, 1988, 21″ x 18″, graphite drawing on paper, collection of Allison Kale Chop
Cutting the Birthday Cake, 1986, graphite drawing on paper, collection of artist.