EDUCATION
2020 Art On The Run Film School, Berlin, Germany
2013 Parsons The New School for Design, MFA, Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2009 University of Amsterdam, MA, Art History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Washington University in Saint Louis, BFA, Painting, St. Louis, MO, USA
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2019 Hidden Treasures (part of Interiors to Being festival), Berlin, Germany
2018 Temporär zu Haus, Kunstsalon Tübingen Landratsamt, Tübingen, Germany (as All These Faces)
2017 Hand Eye, ACRE, Chicago, IL
SMACH 2017 Art Biennial, Dolomites, Italy
Dear Home, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany
Dis., Tête, Berlin Germany
2015 Loops. Inside/Out Gallery, Somerville, MA
Roots. On The Ground Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Fictions, as Usual: Recent Works by Ilyn Wong. J & J Smith Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2013 Hobby Group #1. Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft #2104, Allen Park, MI
Present Futures. Mandrake, Lost Angeles, CA
The Intelligence of Things – Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition The Kitchen, New York, NY
React: The Feminine Mystique at 50 Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
2012 Transparency 25 East Gallery, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
Eloquent Delinquents 25 East Gallery, Parsons the New School, New York, NY
Out of Iceland Walker Space, New York, NY
Over Sensitive 25 East Gallery, Parsons the New School, New York, NY
2011 The Beauty of Minor Matter Skalitzer 140, Berlin, Germany
2010 Small Works Lorem Ipsum Books, Cambridge, MA
Thirteen Under Thirty Rubin-Frankel Gallery, Boston, MA
False Face Brewer’s Mansion, Brooklyn, NY
Little Critters Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Hey I Know That Guy Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Still Matter. SAP Space, Berlin, Germany
Before, During, After. SAP Space, Berlin, Germany
2022 We Begin To Seek Out Dirt. SAP Space, Berlin, Germany
2017 Johnny Guitar. GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany (as All These Faces)
2014 I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb. Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY (co-curated with Maricruz Alarcon and Pieter Paul Pothoven)
PUBLICATIONS AND SYMPOSIA
Room to Bloom Festival, Malmö, Sweden, Nov., 2022
“Sensing Plants: An Interview with Zheng Bo” in Berlin Art Link, Aug 10, 2021
“Between Opacity and Transparency: Wu Tsang at Gropius Bar” in Berlin Art Link, Nov 29, 2019
“Performing the Political in Drag” in Berlin Art Link, May 31, 2019
“Rethinking Masculinity at Galerie im Turm” in Berlin Art Link, June 20, 2018
“Sandy Speaks: An Interview with American Artist” in Berlin Art Link, December 22, 2017
“Human and Non-Human Hybrids: an Interview with Melanie Bonajo” in Berlin Art Link, October 3, 2017
“Highly Functional: The Work of Jessica Posner” in The Archive, Issue 60, Spring 2017
I. eds. Maricruz Alarcón and Ilyn Wong. Self-published in conjunction with I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, 2014
“Black Lines and Shards” in Memories Can’t Wait: Conversations on Accessing History and Archives Through Artistic Practices, eds. Malene Dam, Bridget de Gersigny and Kate Levy. International Center of Photography, 2013
“Exhibition Discussion” at React: The Feminine Mystique at 50, a symposium at The New School, New York, Feb, 2013
“Memory Attachée: Bridging Past and Present Through Family Photographs” at Memories Can’t Wait, a symposium at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY, Dec., 2012
“Cultural Integration or Cultural Hegemony?: The Ambituity of the EU’s Cultural Policy” in Simulacrum, Vol. 16, No. 2, March, 2008
AWARDS, HONORS, AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Baldwin Center For The Arts, Brewster, NY
NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
The Residency Project, Pasadena, CA
24PearlStreet Scholarship, “Writing Pictures With Joanne Dugan” workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, online
2021 Cel del Nord, Virtual Residency
2020 ZK/U, Berlin Germany
2018 The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
Kunstort ELEVEN Art Space, Börstingen, Germany (as All These Faces)
2017 GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2016 PICTURE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
The Centre of Substructured Loss, Berlin, Germany
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
2015 “Truth, Lies, and Lore” The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
“EnterText” Arteles, Haukijärvi, Finland
33 Officina Creativa, Toffia, Italy
“The Non-human” with Doug Ashford, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria
“They Were Like Animals” with Maha Maamoun, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria
2013 Tiny Circus Winter Residency, New Orleans, LA
2012 Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship, “Stop Motion Animation” workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
The Windgate Charitable Foundations Grant, “Ripping Yarns: Stories and Fibers” workshop, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2011 Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, Germany
Somerville Arts Council’s Local Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Somerville, MA
2010 Montana Artist Refuge, scholarship recipient, Basin, MT
2007 Amsterdam Merit Scholarship Recipient, Amsterdam, the Netherlands