Wong received her Master of Fine Art (Creative Media) from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University. She regards her practice as an investigation of the potentials of art beyond representation, its relation to sensation, documentation and experience. Her interest in the experiential quality of works leads her to engage in experiments with images, videography and installation.
Her works have been shown in Hong Kong and internationally; including the Lisbon Art Weekend (2022), Singapore Art Week (2021), Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2020), Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2018), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (2018), Oi! Street Art Space (2017), and EXIS Korea (2017). She was one of the selected artists for 1a Space’s Emerging Talents in Contemporary Art (2020), Art-Uni-On (AUO) Artist Mentoring Program (2017) in Korea, and was awarded a scholarship from Hong Kong Art Centre to attend the Culture, Graphic Design and Fine Arts program in New York School of Visual Arts (2013).
As the founder of an independent art group, Altermodernists, Elaine is devoted to the documentation of artists’ creative processes and promote visual arts in Hong Kong. She also leads projects to produce digital content for art and cultural institutions including M+ Museum, Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, WMA, JCCAC etc.
