Cecile Chong
Cecile Chong
Workspace Program Resident 2023
In the Studio
About the Artist
Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installations include Art in Buildings/125 Maiden Lane (2024), EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners, installed in the five boroughs of New York City (2017-2022), and Socrates Sculpture Park. Fellowships and residencies include Art Omi, Marble House Project, Surf Point Foundation, Dieu Donné Workspace, BAC - Brooklyn Arts Fund, Asian Women Giving Circle, NYSCA, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, The Hispanic Society’s Vilcek Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, FiveMyles, BRIC House, and Emerson Gallery Berlin. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Chinese in America, The Long Island Museum, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Citibank Art Advisory, and private collections internationally. She received an MFA from Parsons, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.
For more information, please visit her website.