Wynne Leung

Biography:
Born in Hong Kong in 1982, Leung was raised by her mother as an immigrant in Toronto. She grew up amongst a supportive diverse community in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto and studied New Media and Visual Arts. She became a user experience designer for a decade before returning to art making. Combining abstraction and color; she probes the recurring themes of community, belonging, fear, love and grief.

Overview of Artistic Practice:
We need more ways to process and connect to our emotions. I’m motivated by the use of color to convey emotions through abstraction. I practice abstraction because it shows that there are infinite perspectives to see.

I hope that the artwork I create reminds us that we can have different perspectives and still feel connected as one. That we can co-exist in this way. We are bound by our imperfections and vulnerabilities as human beings.

As an immigrant, the arts were a way that allowed me to feel connected to myself and place. It taught me that we all feel the same emotions no matter where we’re from. It gave me a place where I can express myself and feel belonging.

My practice is rooted in recreating emotions at that given moment. It is self-expr...

University of Toronto