JESSI WONG

Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2005 and a Masters of Fine Art (coursework) in 2009, Jessica has been shortlisted for several print and award exhibitions. She has received an Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust scholarship in 2010 and the ArtStart emerging artist grant in 2011. Her work is held in public and private collections in the USA, Canada and Australia as well as being acquired by the City of Yarra in Richmond VIC.

Jessi Wong works primarily in paper and printmedia and is an Australian artist based in Melbourne.

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2008-09
Master of Fine Art (coursework) - printing RMIT University, Melbourne

2004-05
Bachelor of Fine Art - printmaking RMIT University, Melbourne

2002-03
Diploma of Visual Arts Chisholm, Institute of TAFE, Dandenong

2003
Chisholm Institute study tour to France (Paris, Nice, Avignon) and Italy (Rome, Venice) 

2012
The Map's Vocabulary, Red Gallery, VIC
Future Visions Festival d'Australie, Divonne-les-Baines, France
New Print Subject Matter Art Space, VIC
Printmaking 12A, Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC

2011
Where are they now? Australian Print Workshop, VIC
Adaptation, Australian Print Workshop, VIC

2010
Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, VIC
Exchange, RMIT School of Art Gallery, VIC
drowning, Port Jackson Press little window of opportunity, VIC
Weapons of Mass Consumption, Town Hall Gallery, VIC
Printmaking 10A, Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC
Postcards from the North, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont NSW
Parallel Worlds, BUS Projects foyer, VIC

2009
MFA 2009 Master of Fine Art graduate exhibition, Guildford Land Gallery, VIC
Figure Out, New White gallery, VIC

2008
Double-sided, Bamakko, VIC
Black, White and shades of Grey, pigmentGALLERY, VIC
Screened, Bamakko, VIC

2012
Fremantle Print Award WA
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Prize Swan Hill regional art gallery, VIC
BSG Print and Drawing prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2011
ArtStart Emerging Artist Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie regional art gallery, TAS

2010
Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisition Prize, Swan HIll regional art gallery, VIC
Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award, James Australian Print Workshop, VIC - Highly Commended
Collie Print Trust Postgraduate Scholarship Award, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, VIC
Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, VIC

2009
Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards, RMIT Gallery, Mlebourne VIC - Finalist
The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Morris Hall, QLD
She...loves life, Smart Artz gallery, VIC - Highly Commended
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, VIC

National Gallery of Australia (Australian Print Workshop collection)
Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto Canada
City of Yarra collection (Richmond)
RMIT University, Melbourne
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA

cataclysm (26 March - 27 April 2013)