Dr. Kacey Wong
Hong Kong Political Artist and former Assistant Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Kacey Wong’s political art projects investigate the relationship between men and their social and political environment. A Fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar with degrees in Architecture, Sculpture and Fine Arts, Kacey was a Hong Kong educator in university levels for close to two decades. He participated in the 2019 Anti-extradition Bil Movement and the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong through performance, videos, photography, installation, sculpture, and social interventions. Kacey’s floating house, “Paddling Home”, sailed the Victoria Harbour and was part of the M+ Museum permanent collection, among other artworks collected by museums and private collectors. He was awarded the Best Artist Award in 2010, Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award in 2003 by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Kacey left Hong Kong in 2021 in search for freedom of artistic expression and now teaching and living as an exile in Taiwan. Kacey continues to advocate for the freedom of Hong Kong and Taiwan against China’s authoritarian regime by using art as his weapon to vanguard.
