Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a New York-based artist and trained architect working at the boundary of art, architecture and social practice.

Cheryl investigates the transformation of shared space over time, and seeks to challenge social and political boundaries through sculpture, installation, performance and site-specific architectural interventions. She explores how spaces can perform on varying scales, ranging from smaller scales such as shelters and surfaces that accommodate the body, to larger spaces that extend their reach to entire environments. When physical elements in architectural spaces perform and change, they also dictate changes in behavior — How do we perceive and react to difference? How do we register change over time? How can race, sex and politics become embedded in architecture and how is space negotiated? Cheryl’s creative process is a crossover between digital drawing (using tools such as architectural drafting software and 3D modeling), visual experiments and the construction of spaces. Her work has been published Domus Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Triple Canopy, Bijutsu Techo, Designboom, Dwell, Interior Design Magazine, Architizer, GSAPP Books and Design Observer.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Cheryl received her B.A. in Art and Italian at the University of California at Berkeley, studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, Italy) and earned her Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP. Cheryl’s work has been commissioned by the City of Inglewood, the New York City Parks Department and by the Percent for Art program in Washington DC. Her work has been exhibited at Triangle Arts Association, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Istanbul Design Biennial, Usagi Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Taliesin West, the Venice Biennale of Art, BMW-Guggenheim Lab, Berkeley Art Museum, Museo della Permanente in Milan, amongst others. She has been a visiting critic at Columbia University GSAPP, and taught architecture at Parsons School of Design, University of Sao Josè in Macau, and at the International Program in Design & Architecture (INDA) at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.