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Brent Wong

Brent Wong (born 1945) is a New Zealand surrealist painter and music composer.

Early life

Wong was born in 1945 in Ōtaki, New Zealand. His family moved to Wellington in 1949, where he has subsequently lived. As a child, he had difficulty reading, which led him towards drawing as an alternative means of self-expression.

Art career

Wong's first solo exhibition was in 1969 at the Rothmans Gallery in Wellington when he was 24. The exhibition "excited extravagant critical attention: and overnight established the previously unknown Brent Wong as an important painter in the local context."

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