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A woman with short dark hair, glasses, and tattoos sits at a desk in a modern office, smiling slightly while looking at the camera. She has an open book with black and white images in front of her.
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Maggie Wong

Gallery Coordinator

  • Education:
    • MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    • BA, Sarah Lawrence College
  • Quick Fact:
    Maggie can often be found in her art studio organizing collaborative projects or dancing with friends.

Maggie Wong is the Gallery Coordinator for Wagner Foundation.

She supports exhibition making and programming for the Wagner Gallery located within the foundation’s Cambridge, Massachusetts office, working with local and national contemporary visual artists and grantee partners. Maggie brings extensive experience in artist-run initiatives, public programming, curation, and publishing to her work at the foundation.

Maggie earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she began cultivating a practice that integrates art-making, curatorial work, and education. She went on to teach at the School of the Art Institute and served as Associate Director at the project space Iceberg Projects. Today she continues to teach at Brandeis University and remains involved with artist-run spaces and artist networks, including ACRE and Chicago API Artists United.

In Massachusetts, Maggie has found a vibrant community through her residency at the Boston Center for the Arts. In the studio Maggie creates sculptures, publications, and socially engaged projects exploring radical histories, archives, memory, and play. Maggie’s studio work has been exhibited as solo shows and group shows across the US. Her projects and writing have been published by Orbis Editions through the Ceto Award, Yale University Press, Viral Ecologies, The Seen, the Chicago Reader, Sixty Inches From Center, and the Journal of Art Practice.

Maggie is committed to nurturing artistic projects that engage with critical contemporary issues and build pathways for solidarity. For her, exhibition-making and publishing are powerful tools for collective reflection—inviting audiences and artists to gather around shared histories, ideas, and materials that shape how we view the world and envision the future

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Unity Newspaper

Unity Newspaper examines collective caregiving through the lens of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a multiracial activist organization based out of Oakland California in 1980’s.

By Maggie Wong, see the publication.