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Singaporean artist Ming Wong reimagines a saint and LGBTQ icon at London gallery

 21/02/2026 6 Views
Singaporean artist Ming Wong reimagines a saint and LGBTQ icon at London gallery


When Ming Wong was asked to be the 2025 artist in residence at London’s National Gallery, he felt delighted and shocked. “I was really confounded,” he says. “Why did they invite me?”

The National Gallery predominantly shows paintings created before 1900, while Wong works mostly with video and performance, sometimes using futuristic imagery borrowed from science fiction.

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