Adrian Kay Wong (b. 1991, San Francisco, CA) is a visual artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. He was born and raised in the east San Francisco Bay area and received his Bachelors in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. He depicts subtle narratives and interactions from the seemingly incidental moments of the everyday. Characterized by domestic interiors, motifs from daily life, and casts of light and shadow, his paintings balance an exchange of abstraction and representation, surface and depth, and organic and geometric form. Interwoven with his own memories, story, and cultural identity, Wong's paintings embody an intimacy and familiarity encapsulated within a stillness like a bated breath. In these vignettes of extended moments, Wong examines the coexisting dualities underlying our daily experiences. Notions such as intimacy and estrangement, transience and permanence, and belonging and isolation lie in the understated tensions inherent to the day-to-day. Structured carefully in measured compositions, Wong gives space to reflect on the personal dialogues often overlooked, yet intrinsic to self-discovery, empowerment, and reflection.
Solo exhibitions include “Same Time, Same Place”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA. (2025); “Upon a Golden Mountain”, Uprise Art, NYC, New York (2024); “Softly”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2023); “From A Time And Place”, Glass Rice / Legion Projects, San Francisco, CA (2022); “Close to Home”, Uprise Art | New York City, NY (2021); “Through the Semblance of Normalcy”, Glass Rice / Legion Projects, San Francisco, CA (2020); “Reshape”, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2019); “Quiet As A Space”, Uprise Art, New York City, NY (2019); “Play/Ground”, Gotham West, New York City, NY (2017); “Paintings By Amelia Midori Miller and Adrian Kay Wong”, UpriseArt x Sherle Wagner Art Gallery, Dallas, TX (2016).
Group exhibitions include Future Fairs, Los Angeles, CA (2025); “SCREEN NAMES”, Look West, San Rafael, CA (2025); “10-Year Anniversary”, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA (2024); “Potluck”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2024); “It Takes A Village”, GCS Agency, San Francisco, CA (2024); “Keepsake”, Uprise Art, NYC, New York (2023); “For The Love Of Dog”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Art Singapore, Over the Influence, Singapore (2023); Art Central Hong Kong, Uprise Art, Hong Kong (2023); “Potluck”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2023); “Vessel”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2022); “Potluck”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2022); “Fields of View”, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2022); “The One With All The Squares”, El Paso Frame Co., El Paso, TX (2021); “POST-IT SHOW 17”, Giant Robot Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); “Community”, Glass Rice, San Francisco, CA (2021); “Bull In A China Shop”, Tchotchke Gallery, NYC, New York (2020); “Three Person Show”, Galerie Tracanelli, Grenoble, France (2020); “8 x 8”, Giant Robot Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020); “Tailgate”, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2020); “The Flats”, Tales Of Art Gallery, Imola, Italy (2019); “New American Paintings 2019 Pacific Coast”, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA (2019); “Visible | Asian American Showcase”, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL (2019); DOPIUM.LA, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); “Relish Vol. 2: Los Angeles”, Joseph Gross Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Art on Paper 2018, Pier 36, New York City, NY (2018); DOPIUM.LA, Mandarin Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (2017); TIES: Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA (2017).