Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Helena Wong   
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Helena Wong

 
 

 

 
 

Helena Wong   portrait  -  chinesenewart

 
     
 
 
   

1938

Helena Wong ( 1938 - 1990 ) was born in Beijing  China.

   

1943

Suffering from a rheumatic disease that forced her to immobility, she copîed

 

Chinese prints, to ocupy her time.
   

1947

She entered the Shanghai Long Rainbow Academy, to study calligraphy,

 

and traditional painting.

   

1950

With her family, she moved to Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.

   

1953

She joined the School of Music and Fine Arts of Parana.

   

1962

She was naturalized Brazilian.

   
 

She began to participate in exhibitions :

1962

XVI th Modern Art Salon of Belo Horizonte

 

Modern Art Salon of Sao Paulo

   

1963

VII th Biennial of Sao Paulo

 

Porto Alegre Salon

   
 

She won the first Drawing Prize at the Porto Alegre Salon and at the Contemporary Arts

 

Museum of the University of São Paulo..

   

 

She began to engrave with Ivan Serpa, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro

 

and held her first solo exhibition, in Santa Rosa Gallery, Rio de Janeiro. ( 1963 )

   
 

Painter, designer, her works participated in many National and international exhibitions  

 

in Brazil and abroad : Argentina, Austria, France, Great-Britain, United States.

   

1972

Her health deteriorating, she returned to Curitiba where she died in 1990.

   

2005

The Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba paid tribute to her with the exhibition :

 

Helena Wong - the trajectory of a passion.

   
  

Danièle Sicard

 

 
 

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Helena Wong - exhibition catalogue  M.A.C. Säo Paulo  -  Brazil  

Helena Wong

 
 

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exhibition catalogue 16/12/1965 au M.A.C.

 
 

Säo Paulo university Museum -  Brazil

 
 

19 cm x17 cm

 
  4 p  
     
     
     
   

 
 
 

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