Lyles & King is thrilled to announce the representation of Lily Wong. Lily Wong is a figurative painter whose nuanced narratives invoke a sense of complex yearning and curiosity around the conditions that inscribe and complicate memory. Often engaged in acts of close looking and intimate contact, the subjects of her work move through dreamlike space and disoriented time. Centered around a reimagination of personhood at the moment it becomes undone, Wong’s paintings probe at the way that literal and metaphorical fracturings influence the body’s relationship to loss, intimacy, and desire. Their stories are never linear, but circular and eternal—a constant arrival and departure from the site of fracture. Lily Wong (b. 1989, Seattle, WA) has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA in 2022 and Lyles & King, New York, NY in 2023. Her work will be included in The Minotaur's Daydreams, curated by Anthony Cudahy at Semiose, Paris, FR. Wong currently has work on view in Wonder Woman at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA. Wong graduated with an MFA from CUNY Hunter College in 2020. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. __________ Portrait of Lily Wong in her studio, 2022, New York, NY. Photo credit: Ian Lewandowski #lilywong #lylesandking