Online Exhibit: The Life & Work of Photographer Dean Wong
In partnership with Portland Chinatown Museum, learn about the life and work of photographer Dean Wong. Watch videos, view highlights from his photography exhibits, and read about his background as an artist depicting the gentrification and displacement in four West Coast Chinatowns, including Portland. Click the link here or scan the QR code to learn more.
Dean Wong's The Future of Chinatown: Decisive Moments is part of a place-based initiative by the Portland Chinatown Museum, Finding Chinatown, comprising a series of virtual and live events and public programs planned throughout 2022, including a three-part permanent mural designed and painted on the Museum’s NW Third Avenue façade by Portland muralist Alex Chiu.
Dean Wong is an artist based in Seattle, Washington. Born and raised in Seattle's Chinatown, he has photographed his community for more than 40 years. His book, Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown, earned the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 2017. He has photographed Chinatowns in Seattle, Vancouver B.C., San Francisco, Oakland, New York, and Portland.
"My primary motivation as an artist is to capture life in the Chinatowns of America as I see it. I'm a street photographer, capturing moments in life others don't see. As an artist, I also paint and sketch scenes of interest to me. The theme of my art is Chinese America."
The Portland Chinatown Museum is Oregon’s first museum about Chinese American history, art, and culture. Opened to the public in December 2018 in a historic building at NW Third Avenue and Davis Street, PCM honors Portland Chinatown’s past, celebrates its present, and is helping to create its future. The permanent exhibition gallery features a 2,400 square foot exhibition, Beyond the Gate: A Tale of Portland’s Historic Chinatowns. Two front galleries serve as a venue for the work of contemporary Asian American artists in all media, as a site for storytelling about the immigrant experience, and for exhibitions, lectures, performances, and other public programs. PCM is operated by the Portland Chinatown History Foundation, founded in 2014 by a group of Chinese American elders with deep roots in Portland’s Chinatown.
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