Caroline Wong

Caroline Wong (b. 1986 Ipoh, Malaysia) is a British-Malaysian-Chinese artist based in London. She explores female desire, primarily through colourful, cluttered scenes of women dining, drinking, or dozing, often in the company of cats. Mirroring the gluttonous girls in her works, she likens her process to indulging, satiating, and — to quote Bonnard — retrieving ‘the savour of things’. Blending party detritus with lushly patterned party dresses, and saturated, saccharine hues with smudged, scribbly pastel, Wong’s tableaux are ultimately a gleeful celebration of excess: a marriage of the carnivalesque and the decorative, the chaotic and the ornate, the feral and the feminine. Her work depicts and embodies hunger in its most literal sense, shaped by an obsessive relationship with food, but hints also at other underlying appetites, desires, and manias in life.

Wong’s work was recognized with the Drawing Biennial Bursary Award (2021), the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Prize (2018) and the Society of Women Artists’ Derwent Special Prize for Materials (2018). Recent solo exhibitions include: Girl who Devour (Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2026), Feline Theatre (Berliner Ensemble Theater, Berlin, DE, 2024), Picnics and Parties (Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, SE, 2024), and Artificial Paradises (Soho Revue, London ,UK, 2022). She participated in recent duo exhibitions: SEE-SAW (with Jaiyoung Cho, Fim Gallery, Seoul, KR, 2024) and Lotus Eaters (with Shailee Mehta, Indigo + Madder, London, UK, 2022). Recent group exhibtions include: Drawing Biennial 2026 (Drawing Room, London, UK, 2026), Tainted Love (Kristin Hjellegjerde, London, UK, 2026), TBT (Soho Revue, London, UK, 2026), and Myths, Dreams, and New Realities (Saatchi x Bagri Foundation, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2025). Wong holds a MFA from City and Guilds of London Art School, UK, (2021).