Matthew Wong (Chinese: 王俊傑; [1] March 8, 1984 – October 2, 2019) was a Canadian artist. Self-taught as a painter, Wong received critical acclaim for his work before his death in 2019 at the age of 35.

Oct 21, 2019 · Matthew Wong, a promising self-taught painter whose vibrant landscapes, forest scenes and still lifes were just beginning to command attention and critical acclaim, died on Oct. 2 in Edmonton,...

Aug 3, 2020 · Matthew Wong committed suicide at age 35, a shock and tragedy for the art world, devastated to see a star fall so quickly. It was shortly after he finished the works for a now-posthumous exhibition for Karma .

Oct 24, 2019 · How did Matthew Wong die? The painter, who had been selling pieces and had exhibitions featured in galleries in New York and Hong Kong, took his life at the beginning of the month.

Oct 14, 2019 · Colleagues, family and friends are mourning the death of Matthew Wong, an Edmonton artist diagnosed with autism who was recognized internationally for his landscape paintings. Wong, 35,...

Oct 7, 2019 · On Sunday, the New York gallery Karma announced in an Instagram post that Matthew Wong, one of the artists in its stable, had died on Wednesday October 2. He was 35. The cause was suicide.

May 9, 2022 · In the three years since his death, the art market has been in a frenzy over his work, with prices escalating to multiple millions, and the rabid auctioneering has helped to shape his story...

Oct 6, 2019 · Matthew Wong, the relentlessly inventive landscape painter, who started painting late in his life, has died at 35. The cause was suicide.

Following his death, Wong was described in his obituary by Roberta Smith of The New York Times as an artist "whose meticulous visionary realism is among the lasting legacies of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s."

Oct 7, 2019 · The cause was suicide; the artist was thirty-five years old. After studying cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Wong moved back to Hong Kong, where he completed an MFA in photography and creative media at City University in 2010.