Please join ELLIO, with artist Holly Wong, for the opening reception of her newest exhibition. The show title, Sacred Letters, references Holly’s own deeply personal exploration of how spirituality can transform trauma into resilience. The work examines the story of Wong’s own healing through the mining of her memories in the surface pattern of the work. In the process of making each piece, she delves into a visual world where she repairs psychological wounds by painting, drawing and sewing over and around them, creating wholeness from disparate parts. Wong crafts a powerful visual language of healing, inviting viewers into a world where wholeness is built from fragmentation. Collectors will find in Wong’s work not only exceptional craftsmanship, but a profound narrative of renewal that speaks across cultures and experiences.
 
Sacred Letters is Wong’s most hopeful exhibition to date, integrating her artmaking as a force of transformation both in her own life and in a deeply polarized society.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Holly Wong is a visual artist whose work spans collaged paintings, drawings, and fiber-based installations that explore themes of healing, resilience, and transformation. Blending non-traditional materials with sewing techniques historically rooted in women’s craft, Wong creates layered, immersive works that honor innovation and cultural lineage. Her practice is deeply personal, shaped by her own history and a commitment to spiritual and emotional restoration through art.
 
Wong earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995 and has exhibited in over 100 shows nationwide, including group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has been recognized with grants from the California Arts Council (Established Artist category), the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She lives and works in San Francisco and is represented by ELLIO Fine Art Gallery in Houston.