Wong Wai Yin experiments with a variety of media, such as painting, sculpture, collage, installations, and photography. Her work is about autobiographical experiences, episodic memory, and intervention with art history.

Wong’s work, “YOU CAN ONLY HAVE YOUR OWN BACK,” was inspired by the green jacket that Melania Trump wore during a trip to a migrant detention centre in Texas that read, “I don’t really care, do u?” The rack features paintings with slogans found on the back of women’s jackets. As a public figure, Melania’s fashion choices cannot be separated from politics whatever were her intentions. Wong identifies her being a woman artist with this same gender tagging with inescapable consequences.

Recent solo projects include “Without Trying” 2016 at Spring Workshop, “A place never been seen is not a place” 2017 at Oi! and “Everyone’s sick” 2020, Tai Kwun Contemporary. Wong Wai Yin graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and the University of Leeds, UK (Master of Fine Arts) in 2005. She is currently a PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Art History.