Career
Originally from Otaki, Wong"s 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. 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.".
