Paper Legends: Artist Talk with Paul Wong

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Paul Wong was the Artistic Director at Dieu Donné from 1978 to 2017, guiding and assisting over 1,000 artists and collaborating one-on-one with 400 artists. Paul innovated and reinvented many of the core creative papermaking techniques that artists continue to experiment with in Dieu Donné’s studios today.

With an artistic practice spanning papermaking, book arts, installation, and more, Paul layers materials and techniques to reinterpret decorative and ritual traditions and his Chinese heritage.

In this video of Paul’s artist talk, he delves into his photo slide collection and explains his artistic process, concepts, and inspirations.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paul Wong was the Artistic Director at Dieu Donné from 1978 to 2017, guiding and assisting over 1,000 artists and collaborating one-on-one with 400 artists such as Lesley Dill, Jim Hodges, and Do Ho Suh, among many others. In recognition of his work as an individual artist, Paul has been the recipient of many awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, among others. He uses the papermaking process that he developed at Dieu Donné in his own work to create major installations and works in paper for exhibitions at institutions such as the Plains Museum, Fargo, and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.