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I am a native San Franciscan artist and have spent the past 45 years making art in a variety of mediums. Painting has always been a central element in my work because of the direct nature of working with the materials. My career has developed from my early years as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute where I earned my Master of Fine Arts degree, to serving as an Art Professor for over 30 years at several universities and colleges including the San Francisco Art Institute, the California State University system and Mills College. I have shown at exhibition venues such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the UC Berkeley Museum & Pacific Film Archive. My work has toured nationally and internationally including Europe, South America and Japan. In addition, I have received several awards and honors including an NEA Grant in 1983, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986, and a Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award in 1997.
Most Popular Al Wong Trailers
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01 January 1968
16mm Film by Al Wong.
01 January 1982
The concern here is to try to make the space between the wall and the puddle to be connected. The image of the person on the wall picking up pebbles and tossing it to the area of the puddle having ringlets of water appearing.
01 January 1971
The objective is to show myself visiting myself, and then showing the frustration of loneliness, by trying to be with myself.
01 January 1975
Al Wong’s Same Difference was composed over the course of a year, a 16mm camera set up on a tripod in the artist’s kitchen capturing views of the San Francisco hills through a large double window.
01 January 1968
Developing a new friend sometimes comes with discovering surprises. In this film, I experience when a personality changes so quickly that it appears to be two personalities.
15 March 1971
This film depicts a man in search of a relationship. However, after experiencing a number of situations, he realizes that the true relationship is with himself.
01 January 1980
Black and White Video Installation | Sound
27 December 2022
This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was in enacted in the U.S. during the years of 1882-1943.
01 January 1978
This film deals with filming (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past.
01 January 1968
16mm Film by Al Wong.
01 January 1974
This film is still a close part of me. I don’t think I could make another one like this again. It deals with space on many levels within a single movement, a movement that has a circular form that involves each viewer within the film itself.
01 January 1981
This film portrays my friend Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist monk and poet, reading from his book The Art of Literature.
01 January 1972
16mm Film by Al Wong.
01 January 1966
16mm Film by Al Wong.
01 January 1979
Black and White Video Installation | Silent
01 January 1968
16mm Film by Al Wong.
19 March 1977
I first started by taking a black 16mm film leader and holding a magnifying glass above the film. I then used the sunlight to burn each frame in the film leader.
28 November 1975
A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.
30 January 1976
This film depicts the cycle of the City of San Francisco, as one proceeds through a day of work.
31 December 1977
Shot over the course of an entire year, the film is a 50-minute structural journey centered on the Twin Peaks hills in San Francisco.
