YEAR OF THE TIGER
Mary Soo Hoo Park on The Rose Kennedy Greenway
2022
Through a partnership with the Pao Arts Center, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong has been commissioned to create an artwork celebrating the Year of the Tiger, as part of an annual project honoring the Chinese Zodiac on The Greenway. Her upcoming artwork, YEAR OF THE TIGER, is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podiums and sprawling floor motifs. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform or engage in public programs.
Photo Credit: Chris Rucinski and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong
ARTIST Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong
Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a NY-based artist and trained architect. Her multidisciplinary practice lies at the boundary of art, architecture, social practice and the public realm.
Through sculpture, installation, performance and site-specific architectural interventions, Cheryl creates transformative spaces and explores how we can share space together. Her public artworks focus on activating forgotten or underused spaces and creating experiences that spark people to encounter each other in unexpected ways. Questions that she asks in her work are: How do we observe and experience change over time? How does that change our behavior and our social interactions? How do race and gender become embedded in architecture? How is space negotiated?
Cheryl’s process is a crossover between digital drawing (using tools such as mapping, architectural drafting, 3D modeling), physical construction of objects and community spaces, and activation of these spaces through public programming.
Through sculpture, installation, performance and site-specific architectural interventions, Cheryl creates transformative spaces and explores how we can share space together. Her public artworks focus on activating forgotten or underused spaces and creating experiences that spark people to encounter each other in unexpected ways. Questions that she asks in her work are: How do we observe and experience change over time? How does that change our behavior and our social interactions? How do race and gender become embedded in architecture? How is space negotiated?
Cheryl’s process is a crossover between digital drawing (using tools such as mapping, architectural drafting, 3D modeling), physical construction of objects and community spaces, and activation of these spaces through public programming.
Press
- “ASLA's Celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Recap” American Society of Landscape Architects, May 31, 2023
- “Pao Arts Center celebrates five years, new installation comes to Mary Soo Hoo Park” by Lex Weaver, The Scope Boston, May 18, 2022
- “Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong Creates Sites for Rest and Play in Boston’s Chinatown” by Lian Parsons-Thomason, Boston Art Review, May 10, 2022
- “Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with these 7 Boston-area spring events” by Matt Juul, The Boston Globe, April 29, 2022
- “Chinatown’s upcoming Year of the Tiger public artwork will be a hub for Boston-based artists” by Morgan Rousseau, Boston.com, February 10, 2022