Bo Wong is a contemporary artist based in Perth, primarily working in the photographic medium. Her images have been exhibited in places as varied as the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra to St Jerome's Laneway in Melbourne’s CBD as part of the Next Wave Festival.

She has recently won a Janet Holmes a Court grant and is preparing for her show 'Superbia' as part of FotoFreo Festival in March 2010 at the North Fremantle Bowls Club. She is also exhibiting 'Mama Things' at the Perth Centre for Photography in April 2010 as the culmination of her 2009 residency at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

 

Bo currently works in the wheatbelt of Western Australia teaching photography in a community arts project with Indigenous elders and children. She continues to work commercially, photographing for artists and designers and has had a selection of this work published in Photofile Magazine, Habitus and Australian Architecture Review.

 

Bo’s work commonly explores relationships between the non-linear nature of the human memory and the material cultures of the present. Her images tend to be based somewhere in the personal experience but not necessarily connected to a ‘truthful’ account of her life. The replacement of contemporary human memory by photographs interests her deeply as does the constructed nature of these images.  Her current projects are part of this continual investigation into identity structures and the fluidity of memory.