Siyan Wong

05/18/2024

Happy AAPI history month! If you would like to support a living AAPI artist, may I suggest ... me? Consider an original painting or an archival museum quality print signed by me. I will be so honored to have my art on your wall and possibly in your family conversations.

Museum quality prints and paintings by artist Siyan Wong of projects - Lives of Three Canners, Five Cents a Can, Remembering Our History, Home and Homeless, and Asian American Portraits. Purchases are processed on the 1st and 15th of the month. For quicker processing or to purchase original painting

02/02/2024

Happy Friday! If you are considering a valentines gift, “Intimacy” may be an option. It’s one of my favorite paintings. The “Corky Lee” print came out beautifully. Two bonus Corky Lee cards (5x7) if you place an order before 2/9. Here are what’s available: https://www.siyanwong.com/shop

11/03/2023

06/01/2021

Thanks Shirley Kwan, for supporting my art and becoming the owner of this original painting! I am also grateful for your support of Womankind. (Prints are still available at www.siyanwong.com.)

Corky Lee, Oil on Canvas (2021), 16x20, $888 (25% for charity of purchaser's choice)

In celebration of AAPI month, I am selling this painting of my dear friend Corky Lee. He has been one of my inspirations to keep doing what I love, which is to paint to give voice to our stories and experiences. You can purchase this painting and prints from my website: www.siyanwong.com. (I will be donating 25% of all sales of my art to Womankind in May. So last day is Monday 5/31/21.)

05/29/2021

Corky Lee, Oil on Canvas (2021), 16x20, $888 (25% for charity of purchaser's choice)

In celebration of AAPI month, I am selling this painting of my dear friend Corky Lee. He has been one of my inspirations to keep doing what I love, which is to paint to give voice to our stories and experiences. You can purchase this painting and prints from my website: www.siyanwong.com. (I will be donating 25% of all sales of my art to Womankind in May. So last day is Monday 5/31/21.)

05/16/2021

HT Chen, Oil on Canvas (2021), 24W x30H x .67D, $4200 (25% of proceeds will be donated to Chen Dance Center)

I am honoring H.T. Chen and his contributions with this painting. HT Chen is a dancer and choreographer who devoted his life to sharing the Chinese American experience through dance. In 1978, together with his wife Dian D**g, also a dancer, they founded the dance school Chen Dance Center. As a dancer, he traveled with Dian to perform across the US and internationally as H.T. Chen & Dancers, the first and only Chinese American dance company in the United States. Today, he and Dian continue to give opportunities to children and dancers to realize dance as an art form and for good health through classes run at Chen Dance Center.

You can find my other paintings in my Asian American Portraits project on my website: www.siyanwong.com.

05/12/2021

Join me in a discussion at Asia Society New York about the documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin" as a cautionary tale for current mobilization around Anti-Asian violence, and how art can help sustain this energy for long term social justice for all. This is a recording so you can watch at anytime. Let me know what you think.

Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, vice president of global artistic programs, leads a discussion with artists Kenneth Tam and Siyan Wong to examine the lasting legacy of Vincent Chin's story.

03/21/2021

Peter Kwong, Oil on Canvas (2021), 16x20, $888 (25% for charity of purchaser's choice)

Here is Peter Kwong, a professor and an activist for justice. When he passed away four years ago, on March 17, 2017, scholars and community activists alike took a pause to absorb the pain. He was a journalist and a scholar who spent time with the people he wrote about - he truly cared how his work affects people's lives. Since his passing, there has been a void because no other scholars have given voice like he did to the struggles of Chinese immigrant working class and put in context their experiences in world events. I hope young scholars find in themselves the same curiosity and persistence in writing about the experiences of the working poor in our community. Here is one of his talks: https://youtu.be/1--B_60PXOw

You can find my other paintings in my Asian American Portraits project on my website: www.siyanwong.com.

03/02/2021

I launched my new website: www.siyanwong.com. Check it out!

Reminder: I will be talking about my current projects and paintings at my talk about social justice art to benefit Womankind on Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 pm. Here is link to RSVP: https://www.iamwomankind.org/2021/02/11/siyan-wong/

02/28/2021

Join me to talk about social justice art to benefit Womankind on Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 pm. Here is link to RSVP: https://www.iamwomankind.org/2021/02/11/siyan-wong/

Looking forward to meeting you! Please share.