ABOUT
Based in Melbourne, Victoria
Althea Wong is an emerging artist in Melbourne, Australia. Guided by the strange eccentricities of her mind, her work transforms seemingly mundane subjects into playful scenes which seek to connect to the viewer through absurdity. As she draws inspiration from the turbulent highs and lows of life, her practice plays with personal joys and struggles, transforming them into light-hearted, digestible art. Through her bizarre and offbeat creations which mirror her own feelings, Althea invites the audience to empathize with these existentially perplexed characters in a way that ‘tickles your soul.’
Group Exhibitions
MADA NOW, Graduate Exhibition, Caulfield
2024
Finalist, The Alice Prize
Finalist, Soho Art Prize
Finalist, UniSQ Biennial Art Award
Mayoral Art Exhibition, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
Prize winner, Linden Postcard Show
MADA NOW, Graduate Exhibition, Caulfield
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery
Mayoral Art Exhibition, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art
2023
2022
Awards and Prizes
2023
2020
2019
The Geoffrey Conaghan and Mathew Erbs Tertiary Award
Art Award, WCC Art and Design, Waverley Christian College
VCE Unit 1&2 Art Award, Waverley Christian College
The Lovers, 2023. Maroondah City Council Art Collection
Education
2024
Monash University
BACHELLOR OF FINE ARTS AND BUSINESS
2020
Waverley Christian College
VCE ART