Mary Sui Yee Wong is a Concordia alumni who received her BFA and MFA in 1991 and 2003 respectively. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has exhibited extensively across Canada and abroad. In spring 2025, a retrospective featuring a large collection of Wong’s works titled “Restless by Nature: Mary Sui Yee Wong 1990-present” was presented at the Richmond Art Gallery. A multi-media performance “Sing Juk Sing” was part of “Whose Chinatown Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections”, curated by Karen Tam at the Griffin Curatorial Project, North Vancouver in 2020. In 2012, Wong’s faux fashion “Yellow Apparel” was exhibited in “Fashionality: Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art” at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and “Janada Ren” was shown at the DMZ festival in the De-Materialized Zone in Korea in 2010.

Wong draws inspiration from personal memory, cultural history, and familial legacy to explore  identity as a social construct. Presently, she is fascinated with how post-colonial Orientalism is being marketed, disseminated, and consumed within the global economy. Working across disciplines that include sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Wong endeavors to defy fixedness as an act of resistance and creative expression.

Wong remains an active member of the arts community as past board member of Oboro, Optica and Articule. She was part of the workgroup “Performing Asian Americas: Converging Movements,” spearheaded by Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Encuentro. In 2015, Wong presented a paper titled, Fashioning Orientalism, Hybridty and Ethnocultural Commodity at the Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, England. Wong is an honorary member of Yuet Sing Music Association in Montreal since 1990 and she maintains a deep connection as advocate and elder of the Chinese community.

Wong completed her MFA in 2003 at Concordia University and has been a teaching in the Studio Arts department for the past two decades. She was the co-founder of the BFA in Socially Engaged Arts degree track and an affiliate faculty at Goddard College, Vermont, USA since 2010.

Multidisciplinary Artist

Mary Sui Yee Wong
2025

Education

MFA Sculpture and Fibres, Concordia University, 2003
BFA Sculpture and Fibres, Concordia University, 1991

Areas of expertise

Sculpture, Public art, performance art, Fibre structures, Print and Dye on textiles, Video, Sound and mix media production

PART TIME TEACHING HISTORY

ARTX 280         Integrated Studio in Contemporary          2016 2019 2020 2021 2023

                         Art Practice                                                     

ARTX 380         Intermediate Integrated Studio in              2016 2019
                         Contemporary Art Practices

ARTX 480         Advance Integrated Studio in                    2018 2019

                         Contemporary Art Practices                            

FBRS 240          Fibre Structures I                                        2010 2013 2014 2015 2017

FBRS 260          Textile Print & Dye I                                    2012

FBRS 341          Intermediate Fibres Structures                   2020

FBRS 360          Textile Print & Dye II                                   2011 2012

FBRS 361          Intermediate Textile Print & Dye II              2015

FBRS 365          Material Practice Textiles and Identity        2013                            

FBRS 340/480   Advance Fibers Structures II                       2010

FBRS 385          Issues of Material Practice:                          2015

                         Spatial Intervention   

FBRS 480          Advance Textile Print & Dye                       2011 2021

SCUL 210         Sculpture and Material Practice                  2003 2017 2021 2022

SCUL 211         Sculpture and Material Practice                  2023

SCUL 231         Introduction to Sculptural Woodworking    2023

SCUL 310         Sculpture and Material Practices                 2017 2022