Wesley Tongson

Hong Kong | 1957 - 2012

Wesley Tongson was a Hong Kong Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1957. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie du Monde have featured Wesley Tongson's work in the past.Wesley Tongson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 2,902 USD to 27,254 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is 27,254 USD for Green Mountains, sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2021. Wesley Tongson has been featured in articles for CAFA Art Info, ArtDaily and e-flux. The most recent article is In Pictures: Top Works to See During Hong Kong Art Week written for The Art Newspaper in March 2024. The artist died in 2012.

Artist's alternative names: Tang Jiawei, Tong Ka Wai

Landscape, 2007

Hanging scroll, Ink on paper

178 x 96 cm. (70 1/8 x 37 3/4 in.)

2 Works: Pine 1 / Landscape 5 - Wesley Tongson

2 Works: Pine 1 / Landscape 5, 2003

Ink on paper

various sizes

Landscape

Scroll, mounted and framed Ink and colour on paper

96 x 179.5 cm. (37 ¾ x 70 5/8 in.)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Untitled

By Wesley Tongson

+26%

above mid-estimate

Christie's New York

Mountains of Heaven

By Wesley Tongson

+5%

above mid-estimate

Christie's Online

Abstract Landscape

By Wesley Tongson

+57%

above mid-estimate

Christie's Hong Kong

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Current Exhibitions

Momentous Mountains: The Artistic, Philosophical And Cultural Engagement With Chinese Landscape Painting

University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong | Hong Kong

Feb 28,2024 - Jun 02,2024

Into View: New Voices, New Stories

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Union Square | San Francisco | California | USA

Jan 19,2024 - Oct 17,2024

Past Exhibitions

Ink: A Witness to Millenia

Galerie du Monde

Central | Hong Kong | Hong Kong

Aug 22,2022 - Oct 29,2022

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Articles

In Pictures: Top Works to See During Hong Kong Art Week

The Art Newspaper 27/03/2024

In pictures: top works to see during Hong Kong art week Check out our unmissable highlights from around the SAR.

M+ Presents "Shanshui" Exploring Echoes and Signals Across Contemporary Mediums

CAFA Art Info 13/02/2024

Drawn from the M+ Collections, Shanshui: Echoes and Signals explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world.

A new exhibition reimagining landscape through works from the M+ Collections opens to the public

ArtDaily 12/02/2024

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, opened the new thematic exhibition Shanshui: Echoes and Signals to the public in the South Galleries of the museum.

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