Member Tours: Ancestral Visions with Chelsea Ryoko Wong
Member Tours: Ancestral Visions with Chelsea Ryoko Wong
March 8 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
In celebration of Women’s History Month, this month’s Member Tour will feature a special guest, Chelsea Ryoko Wong, the 2024 Harker Fund Artist-in-Residence. On this tour, Wong will share about her exciting new installation titled Ancestral Visions on view in the Gallery of California Art.
Inspired by textiles from the OMCA collection, Wong’s research focused on the wardrobes, photographs, and ephemera of six 20th-century Chinese American women—Rose Setzo, Sophia Chang Wong, Grace Dea, Lei Kim Lim, Sun Fung Lee Wong, and Chop Chin Chum.
This unique project highlights Wong’s colorful paintings in an immersive environment that will showcase the dresses the women wore, known as qipao or cheongsam, as well as illuminate what is known of their lives.
Ancestral Visions: An Installation by Chelsea Ryoko Wong is supported by the Harker Fund Artist Residency Program.
Facilitator
Chelsea Ryoko Wong (b. 1986, Seattle, WA) attended Parsons School of Design, New York and received her BFA in printmaking from California College of the Arts. In 2024, she was awarded the Harker Fund Residency at the Oakland Museum of California where she will enjoy a solo exhibition in 2025. She was a 2022 finalist for SFMOMA’s esteemed SECA Art Award and was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s 2023 Bay Area Now 9 triennial. She has participated in recent group exhibitions at the de Young, San Francisco; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA; Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA; and Bolinas Museum, CA. She has been commissioned for large-scale projects and murals in San Francisco at SFMOMA; Asian Art Museum; Asana; La Cocina; Facebook Artist in Residence Program. Her work has been acquired by institutional and private collections including the de Young, San Francisco; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, and Bolinas Museum, CA. Wong lives and works in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.
Accessibility
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible, welcoming, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs, sensory inclusive devices, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations, like American Sign Language (ASL), Cantonese, Spanish or another language interpreter, please email [email protected] at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options.