旅美华裔艺术家黄荣禧自1984年代表美国参加威尼斯双年展起，台湾艺术界对他的认识起於他发光国际的创作先锋，长期旅居纽约的黄荣禧多年来与台湾的艺术圈好友们保有联络，也持续於台北发表个展，展现他源源不绝的艺术哲思。今年五月，他的骤然离去，令眾多好友多感不捨。

自8月18日起至26日止，长期代理黄荣禧作品的耿画廊将為黄荣禧举办為期一个星期的纪念展。在这纪念展中，我们将呈现黄荣禧不同阶段的创作精选，随著其纽约工作室中保留文件与原稿之影像瀏览，他的身影似乎仍悠悠的显现在他的空间中。另外，我们準备了他生前让人印象深刻最令他开怀的八卦聊天室，由他的台湾艺术界好友们来八卦一番，只是这次的八卦主角终於成了他，让大家听听朋友们记忆中的黄荣禧。

如果你认识他，曾经与他抽过菸，同他喝过可乐，并且与他分享过你的八卦与人生，请在这一天加入我们，让我们一起来回忆这位总是带给大家欢笑的精緻灵魂。

Tony Wong was born in Guangdong, China, and lived in New York from 1977 to his death in May 2012. Wong received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained his Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the University of California in Berkeley, California. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions worldwide. In 1984, he participated in Paradise Lost Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade, curated by Marcia Tucker for the United States Pavilion of the 41st Venice Biennial. At the time of his death, he had just completed his solo exhibition at the Tina Keng Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan.

Often starting with pastel on paper as a preliminary work, Tony continues with oil on canvas and then sculpture, sometimes even working on both simultaneously. The surfaces of Tony's work is coated layer upon layer with oil paint, as if the colors are constantly shifting in movement, with themes of solitude, existence, change, love, pain, and loss, working across mediums, in a way to understand different perspectives, which is not unlike his knowledge of cultures, and the experience of living between them.

This week-long memorial exhibition is being held in remembrance of Tony, on view from August 18 to 26 (opening reception: August 18, 4:30pm), presenting various works from different periods of his artistic trajectory, and revisiting his studio through video, capturing a glimpse of his presence. A gossip room is also prepared for the exhibition-something that Tony loved to do, though more discreetly, of course-if you have once shared a smoke, a coke, or a good laugh with Tony, we invite you to join us in remembering and celebrating the life of Tony Wong.