Leah L. Wong born in Qingdao, China. Leah received her BFA in oil painting from the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, China and earned her MFA in painting from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. ​

Leah’s paintings and paper cutout installations have been exhibited and collected widely for many years. Her work has been exhibited in the Power Station of Art, a contemporary art museum in Shanghai; MoCA Shanghai; Shanghai’s M50 Art Center; and other public spaces in China and the US. She has also exhibited at The Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio; Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth; The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus; Sotheby’s Institute of Art - Los Angeles; and the Daforma Gallery, Rome, Italy, among others. Leah is represented by Sherrie Gallerie in Columbus, Ohio. She received the Ohio Arts Council 2017 Individual Excellent Artist Award and was selected as the 2017 summer artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. 

Leah takes inspirations from nature, light, plants, and mirrored reflections in water. She combines drawings and cutouts with multiple layers that increase the visual complexity and experience. From multiple perspectives, her cutout and display layouts bring forth mental landscapes that are incorporated into specific sites. Light and shadows add depth to energize viewers’ visual experience, which can be spiritual, psychological, and/or optical. 
Both abstractly and metaphorically, Leah's two- and three-dimensional forms are suspended between concepts and imaginations of time and space. 

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Selected Exhibitions:
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 • +/- Perspectives, McConnell Arts Center, Worthington, OH
2019 • Light & Shadow, Woolloomooloo Xhibit Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 • Rethink, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
         • No Boundaries, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 • 360˚, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2012 • Seen and Unseen, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2010 • In Between, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2008 • View, Featured Show, Upper Arlington Art Council, Upper Arlington, OH
2007 • Two-and-a-Half Dimensions, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2006 • Leah Wong and Nancy Wride, Gallery V, Columbus, OH
2004 • Free-Play, Leah Wong and Christine Heindl, A. S. H. Image Gallery, Columbus, OH
         • Life in the Sky, Ohio University Art Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
 
Group Exhibitions
2024 • Art Unbound IV, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan (Main) Library, Columbus, OH 
2023 • Conversation on Climate Change, Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
         • Interwoven: The Many Voices of Fiber, Riffe Gallery, The Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
         • Art Spot, invitational, Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), Columbus, OH
2022 • The Ohio Arts Council & Riffe Gallery present the 2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition at the Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
2021 • 2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, The Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
2019 • Unbounded Extension, New York Gallery of Chinese Art, New York, NY
         • Cross-Time Dialogue, Featured Artist, public art, Beijing, China
         • Lines & Edges, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
2018 • ShanShui Within, international invitational, Shanghai MoCA and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA
         • ShanShui Within, international invitational, MoCA Shanghai, Daforma Gallery, Rome, Italy
         • In the Field, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
2017 • Extended Relationships, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
2016 • ShanShui Within, MoCA Shanghai, China
         • Perception and Vision, Zhuizhou Longji Art Museum, Guiyang, China
         • Present Participle III, M Art Center, Shanghai, China
         • Art Unbound II, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan (Main) Library, Columbus, OH 
         • Novas Histories, Juried Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2015 • A Tradition Re-Interpreted, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
         • Calligraphic Time and Space, The Power Station of Art contemporary art museum, Shanghai, China
         • Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, OH
2014 • Collision + Confluence, Asian Art Center, New York, NY
         • Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, OH
2014 • The Year of the Horse, public art, Jinqiao International Business Square, Shanghai, China
2013 • Cut & Torn: Paperscapes, Columbus Arts Center, Columbus, OH
         • East & West, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
         • Diverse, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2012 • Perspective, Elisabeth De Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, China
         • Art for Life, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, OH
2010 • Seven Women, Strathmore Fine Arts Center, North Bethesda, MD
         • Shared Space, Faculty Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH