Paul Wong

Biography

Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Writing, publishing and teaching have been an important part of his praxis. With a career spanning four decades he has been instrumental proponent to contemporary art.

Directed

1. Running In a Maze (2008) — Director
2. '4' (1981) — Director
3. Miss Chinatown (1995) — Director
4. Body Fluid (1987) — Director
5. 60 Unit; Bruise (1976) — Director
6. Refugee Class of 2000 (2000) — Director
7. Confused [The Videotape] (1984) — Director
8. Confused: Sexual Views (1984) — Director
9. Prime Cuts (1981) — Director
10. Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade (1988) — Director
11. Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain (1992) — Director
12. Temple of My Familiar (1995) — Director
13. I Love You (1993) — Director
14. So Are You (1995) — Director
15. Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World (1996) — Director
16. Mixed Messages (1995) — Director
17. Trieste (2002) — Director
18. Jazz Slave Ships (1998) — Director
19. Smash: Reflecting Sex (2002) — Director
20. EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless (2002) — Director
21. Venenzia (2006) — Director
22. Hungry Ghosts Mix (2003) — Director
23. Perfect Day (2007) — Director
24. Chelsea Hotel Room 207 (2008) — Director
25. Dog Eat Dog (2008) — Director
26. Spring (2006) — Director
27. EastVan 'John' (2008) — Director
28. Diamondback (2008) — Director
29. Sally (2008) — Director
30. 2 Hot 2 Handle (2009) — Director
31. Storm (2009) — Director
32. Ross, Kay, and Elsie (2010) — Director
33. Little Big Horn (2010) — Director
34. The Hotel (2011) — Director
35. Subway Loop (1975) — Director
36. Earthworks In Harmony (1974) — Director
37. On Becoming a Man (1975) — Director
38. Amass (1976) — Director
39. Asteroid (1978) — Director
40. Rock Garden (1976) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look (1985) — self
2. Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982 (2015) — Self
3. 60 Unit; Bruise (1976) — Self
4. Confused [The Videotape] (1984) — Paul
5. 7 Day Activity (1977) — Self / Narrator (voice)
6. Perfect Day (2007) — Self
7. Chelsea Hotel Room 207 (2008) — Self
8. Rock Garden (1976) — Self
9. On Becoming a Man (1975) — Self
10. in ten sity (1978) — Self
11. Diamondback (2008) — Self
12. Sally (2008) — Self
13. The Hotel (2011) — Paul / The Hotel Director
14. Hell Money (2010) — Wiry Man
15. Ooooo Canada (2010) — Host
16. Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama (2024) — Himself