LAM WONG 王藝林
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LAM WONG: THE GARDEN YEARS (2019-2022)
In the autumn of 2019, I had the honour and privilege to be the artist in residence at Vancouver’s iconic Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Originally it was planned for a year long residency to create and organize three art exhibitions based on the idea of artistic and cultural exchange. Then we had the generous funding supports from Vancouver’s Chinatown Legacy Steward Group, the City of Vancouver’s multicultural grant and Province of BC. We launched Solidarity: Exchange and created another two major meaningful art exhibitions. The Garden extended my residency for another year and all together we produced the following five art exhibitions alongside with many workshops and events. These projects contributed to the vibrant artistic excellent of our city and brought together artistic from diverse backgrounds and countries to form a meaningful dialogues and cultural exchanges.
Here are the exhibition projects:
Chaji
2019-2020, September 13 to January 10
Artists: John Cage, Arthur Cheng, Bryan Mulvihill, Chick Rice, Don Wong, Lam Wong
http://teaart.ca/page.php?content=chaji
Essay by Rebecca Wang (PDF)
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Investigation of Things: Canada-China Art Exchange Exhibition for Young Emerging Artists
2020, January 23 to March 21
Artists: Gen Chen, Zuhat Cheng, Nazanin Oghanian, Jay Pahre, Evann Siebens, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Dehar Wu, Qunbo Xu, Guoqing Yi, Haipeng Zhang
https://shangfoundation.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/investigation-of-things/
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Luminous Garden: Glenn Lewis + Lam Wong
2020, April 18 to August 18
http://lamwong.com/exhibition/luminous-garden-2020.html
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SOLIDARITY - Indigenous + Chinese Canadian Art Exchange
2020-2021
https://solidarity2021.wordpress.com/
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Rivers Have Mouths
2021, June 12 to September 12
Artists: Kelly Cannell, Angela George – qʷənat, Rick Harry – Xwalacktun, Laiwan – 朱麗雲, Sarah Ling – 凌慧意, Cease Wyss – T’uy’t’tanat, Lam Wong – 王藝林
https://solidarity2021.wordpress.com/rivers-have-mouths/
http://lamwong.com/exhibition/rivers-have-mouths-2021.html
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Look Towards The Sun: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun + Lam Wong
2021-2022, September 23 to January 5
http://lamwong.com/exhibition/look-towards-the-sun-2021.html
https://solidarity2021.wordpress.com/look-towards-the-sun/
Link: Vancouver Sun article
Link: Exhibition Walkthrough (YouTube)
From the very beginning of the Garden residency I intentionally did not plan for any solo exhibition as I felt this is a place for community and diversity, so collaborative art projects are ideal. I used a theme called Cha-He (茶和) or Tea Harmony to create tea spaces and invited many artists and cultural workers to my tea ceremony and collaborate on creative projects.
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Acknowledgements:
I am grateful to the support from the Garden staffs and volunteers, and indebted to the kind and generous supports from all the artists, Elder Larry Grant and Grant family, Lorraine Lowe, Sarah Ling, Baldwin Wong, Sarah Macaulay, Nikki Peck, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Glenn Lewis, Steven Dragonn, Yang XioYan, Bruno Dias, Vincent Kwan, The Shang Foundation for Art, John Cage Trust (New York), Chinatown Legacy Stewardship Group (LSG), City of Vancouver, Province of BC, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), the three first nations which their unceded, ancestral and traditional territories the exhibitions were installed, without whom these memorable projects would not have been realized.