Wong Kit Yi works at the intersection of speculative imagination and research. Merging video with performance and the everyday, she crafts participatory experiences that engender questions of identity, the parameters of time and context. In her relational karaoke-lecture-performances, she moves fluidly between the voices of academia, memoir, philosophy and song, aggregating content from her research. A recent work commissioned for the FRONT Triennial 2022, Inner Voice Transplant (2022), takes as its starting point the history of a voice box transplant, first performed at the Cleveland Clinic in 1998, and from there explores a braided narrative of medicine, spirituality and consciousness. She was recently commssioned by The Kitchen in New York to present a new project in November 2024.

Wong Kit Yi lives and works between New York and Hong Kong. Her works have been included in projects organized by M+ (Hong Kong, 2023); Tate Modern (London, 2023); FRONT Triennial (Cleveland, 2022); Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2021); Public Art Fund (New York, 2020); Para Site (Hong Kong, 2019); Surplus Space (Wuhan, 2018); the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga, 2017). She was a resident in the Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence program (Marfa, 2021) and received an MFA from Yale University. She has taught university courses about performance, video art, and new media and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts (New York) in the MFA Fine Arts program. Even when not teaching, she can’t quit lecturing people, and continues to do so in her signature karaoke-inspired lecture format. She is the co-chair of LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Hong Kong, and a die-hard member of KFC(kombucha fan club). Her work has been collected by M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; and Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina; among others.

📍 Currently On View 📍
Wong Kit Yi: DIAL 432 TO SEE THE LIGHT (with Kitchen archive-inspired notes on TV funerals, bagpipes, traveling tape, hidden frequencies, and more), The Kitchen Video Viewing Room, New York