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Ivan Wong (born 20 December 1955) is an American artist, bass player and book producer whose career spans four decades. In 2014 he began working with New York-based art dealer Danielle Sweet and her atelier DANIELLE to create CHROMIUM US 101, a project that includes his paintings and surfboard sculptures. The works represent his experience of California during postwar America and embody the spirit of the region's cultural identity. The project will be exhibited at the Palos Verdes Art Center and concurrently at Paul Smith Los Angeles from August 13 – September 25, 2016.
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Career
In the 1970s as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wong was the bassist in L.A.'s first homegrown ska band, The Boxboys, which became an integral part of the city's punk new wave scene. As an art student Wong studied under artists George Herms, Laddie John Dill, Vito Acconci and Alexis Smith, and in 1981 received a degree in painting from UCLA and moved to New York. There he studied painting at Columbia University and was the bassist in bands Little Shining Man and Voodoo X.
Since the early 1990s, Wong has produced hundreds of books with renowned artists and designers of our time, including Irving Penn, Madonna, David LaChapelle, Albert Watson, Eiko Ishioka, Simon Doonan and Fabien Baron, and has worked with such companies as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Vogue.
Personal life
Wong lives and works in New York City, San Diego and Los Angeles. He has lived near water his entire life.