About
Wong lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been supported by Rooftop Films, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Headlands Center for the Arts, Automata, and Mission Tile West. He currently teaches at CalState Channel Islands and CalArts.
Wong’s films have been exhibited worldwide including:
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
True/False Film Festival
Slamdance
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Ann Arbor Film Festival
DOK Leipzig
European Media Art Festival
Carnegie Museum of Art
London International Animation Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Newfest
Frameline
His work has been featured in group exhibitions at:
George J. Doizaki Gallery at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles
Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento
The REEF, Los Angeles
Anne Reid ’72 Gallery, New Jersey
He can be reached at: okjordanwong [at] gmail [dot] com
EDUCATION
2022 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2020 MFA Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts
2014 BFA Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design
RESIDENCIES
2025 Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN) ~ forthcoming
2025 Acre Residency (Steuben, WI) ~ forthcoming
2024 Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA)
2024 Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY)
2023 The REEF Residency (Downtown Los Angeles, CA)
2022 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME)
2022 The Residency Project (Los Angeles, CA)
2021 Automata Residency (Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA)
2019 Mission Tile West Ceramics Residency (Los Angeles, CA)
2015 Artist Residency at The Center at Eagle Hill (Hardwick, MA)
AWARDS + DISTINCTIONS
2025 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Best Experimental Film, Fargo Film Festival
2024 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Audience Award, Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival
2024 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Golden Reel Award Winner for Best Documentary Short, 40th VC Film Festival
2024 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Terri Schwartz Asian Film Award, 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
2024 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Jury Award, San Diego Underground Film Festival
2023 “I Would’ve Been Happy”, Short Film Selection, True/False Film Festival
2021 “Mountain Lodge”, Honorable Mention (Experimental Shorts), Slamdance
2019 “Mom’s Clothes”, Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival
2019 “Mom’s Clothes”, Jury Selection, The 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival
2019 “Mom’s Clothes”, Jury’s Choice, The 38th Annual Black Maria Film Festival
2017 “ugly but good”, Award of Distinction, Athens Animfest
2014 “Don’t Worry, I’ll Do It”, Jury Prize, The Machinima Expo 7
ARTIST LECTURES + PRESENTATIONS
2023
The NY Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Artist Talk + Sequential Image/Sculpture Presentation
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA): In-Person Visiting Artist Lecturer, Graduate Experimental Video (Fall)
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA): In-Person Visiting Artist Lecturer, Graduate Experimental Video (Spring)
School of Visual Arts (New York City, NY): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Experimental Animation
California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Animation - Experimental World Building
2022
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY): In-Person Visiting Artist Lecturer + Critic, Film and Media Arts Practicum
Parsons School of Design (New York City, NY): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Senior Thesis Animation
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Experimental Animation MFA2 Thesis Concept
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, History of Experimental Animation
California College of the Arts x Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland, CA): Artist Lecture - Eyewash 07: Hopefully You Remember This
2021
Automata (Los Angeles, CA): Artist Lecture/Presentation of Current Work
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Senior Animation Projects
California State University LA (Los Angeles, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Art and Motion Animation
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, History of Experimental Animation
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA): Panelist and Artist Lecture, Animation as Queer Practice
Panelists included: Lilly Husbands, Lorelei Pepi, Steve Reinke, Jordan Wong
2020
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA): Visiting Artist Lecturer, Loop Loop Experimental Animation
2015
The Eagle Hill School (Hardwick, MA): Visiting Artist Lecturer + Skill Share Workshop
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Center (New Plymouth, New Zealand)
2024
Vibe Check (Film Series), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)
Urban Legends (Film Series), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)
Splat Leak Spill, Satellite Art Fair x Moisturizer Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
self<not>self, The George J. Doizaki Gallery - Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Moved/Displaced, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana, CA)
2023
Hot Breath, The REEF (Los Angeles, CA)
Greater Energy, Vulpes-Bastille, with Noelle Choy and William Lanzillo (Kansas City, MO)
This Space Between, performance collaboration with Noelle Choy, SkowheganPERFORMS at Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY)
I Would’ve Been Happy (Solo Show), The REEF (Los Angeles, CA)
2022
an explorer, a tracer of lost tribes, a seeker of clues to feelings, Ann Reid ‘72 Gallery (Princeton, NJ)
Destiny Angel, Immediate Launch, Xioamara Projects (Kansas City, MO)
No End in Sight, Verge Center for the Arts X National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (Sacramento, CA)
2019
Hopefully You Remember This (Solo Show), California Institute of the Arts: D301 Gallery (Valencia, CA)
Call Me When You See This (Solo Show), California Institute of the Arts: C113 Gallery (Valencia, CA)
Dissolving Sights II, Projection Art, Performance, + Sculpture Exhibition, Automata (Los Angeles, CA)
2018
High Tech, High Touch, Chugye University for the Arts, South Korea
2017
Please Don’t Put Me In Direct Sunlight, California Institute of the Arts: C113 Gallery (Valencia, CA)
Vertical Horizons, Gelman Gallery (Providence, RI)
SELECT SCREENINGS
2025
Fargo Film Festival
2024
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Slamdance - Animation Shorts
True/False Film Festival
San Diego Underground Film Festival
62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
CAAMFest (Center for Asian American Media): Animontage Shorts
VC Film Festival (aka Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)
37th European Media Art Festival
Carnegie Museum of Art - Film Series: Vibe Check
Carnegie Museum of Art - Film Series: Urban Legends
Ottawa International Animation Festival - "Threads & Folds: Animated Textiles”
Rooftop Films
Champs-Élysées Film Festival
Onion City Film Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
DocLands
Shadow Kitchen #37 - LA Local v1
31st Florida Film Festival - Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Walla Walla Movie Crush
Film Maudit 2.0
Chicago Critics Film Festival
Malt Adult #29
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival
2023
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Light Matter Film Festival: Experimental Film & Media Art
WeHo Pride Arts Fest: Experimental Film Program
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
California Institute of the Arts - Film/Video Showcase: Animation
2022
Shadow Kitchen: The Songs of Ghosts Seep Through the Cracks in the Drywall
Fantoche: Long Night of the Museums in Zurich
Mardi Gras Film Festival: Queer Screen Film Fest
Rooftop Films
Kaboom Animation Festival
2021
Punto y Raya Festival
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Drunken Film Fest Oakland
22nd Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
QueerX Festival
22nd San Diego Asian Film Festival
37th European Media Art Festival
Palace International Film Festival
Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival
Rooftop Films
Golden Ger International Film Festival
Frameline45: SF International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
Toronto Queer Film Festival
30th Florida Film Festival
Slamdance: Experimental Shorts
Soho Horror Film Festival
2020
San Diego Underground Film Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival: Student Panorama
Diversidad II & Animapride IV: Athens Pride
Tag! Queer Shorts Festival
NewFest: New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival
2019
Anthology Film Archives - Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film
Collectif Jeune Cinema: What’s Your Flavor 2019
Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival: Short Film Showcase 3
6th Queer Media Festival: Queering Animation
2nd Rockaway Film Festival: Animated Fictions Shorts
23rd Edition of Queer Lisboa: Shorts 4 Program
Cucalorus Festival: Pompadour Shorts - Docs 4
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival: International Competition Block 3
Animasyros Animation Festival + Agora: Animapride IV
QFest: Houston’s Intl LGBTQ Film Festival:Experimental Shorts
Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival
7th Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
14th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival: Speaking Visuals, Showing Patterns
Annecy International Animation Film Festival: Perspectives Competition
LA Film Forum: Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens
Flatpack Festival No.14 Short Film Competition: “Where I Belong”
32nd European Media Art Festival: INIT “Patch Work Identities”
57th Ann Arbor Film Festival - Short Film Competition 5: “Out Night”
22nd Japan Media Arts Festival - Jury Selection: Animation Division
38th Annual Black Maria Film Festival - Jury’s Choice
2018
London International Animation Festival - Edge of Frame: Material Fragments
DOK Leipzig International Programme Short Film
Indie-Anifest 2018: Asia Road Program
San Diego Underground Film Festival
California Institute of the Arts - Film/Video Showcase: Panorama