Biography and Artist statement

Biography:

Wing Na Wong is a recipient of the Antonio Alberetti Excellence in Painting Award, The City of Danbury Proclamation from Mayor of City of Danbury Mark Boughton and the #1 Painting Award, Juried Fine Art & Crafts Show in Danbury, CT. She is a member of International Guild of Realism and associate member of the Oil Painters of America. Wing has been featured in American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Hartford Courant and Artscope Magazine. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows, group shows and juried exhibition shows across the states. Her painting has been exhibited in the government offices of Mark Boughton, Mayor of Danbury (2019-2020), and Jahana Hayes, U.S. Congressional Representative in Waterbury, CT (2018-2020). And a permanent collection of women scientists in Discovery Museum in Action, Massachusetts.

Artist statement:

Wing Na Wong is a photorealist painter. Her specialty is portraiture, depicting people or animals with expressive details. Photorealism has always been her interest, but her decision to officially make it her career began when she started fine tuning her techniques. Creating portraits and bringing them alive with details gives her all the satisfaction and encouragement she needs for the next art piece. It is telling the story of a person, a biography, using her paint brush to depict the many life experiences that we all go through with visual clues and artistic details.